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Before his promotion to CTO in August 2003 Northcutt oversaw the company's Systems Architecture Group. Prior to joining Silicon Image in early 2002 Dr. Northcutt held the title of distinguished engineer at Sun Microsystems where he led a Sun Labs research group that created a number of products including the Sun Ray Java Media APIs Sun Media Center and SunTuner. While at Sun Dr. Northcutt twice received the President's Award for his technical contributions and ended his 12-year tenure as chief technologist of Sun's Internet Desktop and Servers Group. Previously he was a member of the research faculty at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science where he led the research project that developed the Alpha real-time operating system and multiprocessor test bed. Dr. Northcutt holds 12 patents is the author of a book on real-time distributed operating systems and has authored over 40 articles and technical reports on time-critical computing distributed systems multimedia and thin clients. Dr. Northcutt received a master's degree in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. in computer and electrical engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. | 