Inventor André Gray

Andre Gray is a noted inventor of Belizean-American heritage who is ranked as the number one Inventor in the world by various publications from around the world for the past three decades and is regarded as one of the five greatest inventors of all-time. The winner of the highly prestigious, one-time ' Johannes Gutenberg Inventor Prize' in 2002, André Gray is widely credited as being the sole inventor/innovator of the following:

1. (dot) RPM: Audio Codec For Computer Music---a highly influential paper on audio compression (1982). It provided the foundational mathematical formulas for mp3, AIFF, WAV and every audio-video codec formats in the world, both past & present.

2. "Internet Killed The Video Star" (1988) first song ever uploaded to the Internet and is now universally acknowledged to be the Internet anthem. The birth of online digital media.

3. "inkling" World's first Internet Bot --with artificial intelligence (1988). Bots are responsible for 75% of all internet activities.

4. Voicemail Icon design (1988). Used on the Internet and now on all 15 billion mobile phones and counting.

5. Retrogrooves: World's first Digital DJ turntables software (1989). Today, 98% of all DJs in the world use DJing softwares.

6. Electronic Ticket (1991). Now a trillion dollar industry.

7. Ringtones and Ringbacks (SYNC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE) (1994). SYNC is also the world's first downloadable app. The downloadable apps sector is now a trillion dollar industry. Ringtones is on 15 billion mobile phones and counting.

8. Mind-Over-Matter-Technology. (1994). Controlling electronic devices by use of the mind only. Facebook, Nissan, Neuralink and others were inspired by this technology and now uses it.

9. Electronic Press Kit (EPK) (1995). Indispensable online branding & marketing tool. EPK singlehandedly gave birth to Social Media.

10. Microgrooves-E (1998). World's first mobile phone multimedia player capable of playing entire albums and recording/playback of audio & video. Every Smartphone has these features now.

11. Online Music Sales Certifications(1999). Tracking music sales over the web, hence the birth of big data analytics.

12. SNAP (Synthesizer Algorithms Programming) (2008). Vendor neutral synthesizer programming language.

13. Microgrooves HD (2016) improved vinyl records format.

14. Microgrooves Digital (2016) improved vinyl records format.

15. Microgrooves Green Tea (2016) improved vinyl records format.

Plus many other innovations!!!