Dr Kees Schouhamer Immink, president and founder of Turing Machines Inc., a Dutch-based research and consulting firm that monitors global trends in science and technology. He is, since 1995, an adjunct professor at the Institute for Experimental Mathematics, University of Essen, Essen, Germany, and affiliated with the National University of Singaporeas a Distinguished Visiting Professor.

For more than three decades, Kees Schouhamer Immink has played a central role in research of digital recording products. Many aspects of recording systems have gained from his creativity, including, notably, coding technology, electronics, servo design and performance, playing behavior, system control and protection. He has been instrumental in the design and development of a wide variety of digital consumer-type video, audio, and data recorders such as LaserVision videodisc, Compact Disc (CD), CD-ROM, Compact Disc Video (CD-V), R-DAT, Video CD, Digital Compact Cassette (DCC), Digital Video Recorder (DV), DVD, Super Audio CD (SACD), DVD-Audio, and BluRay Disc. His research resulted in 4 books, more than 100 articles, and over 1000 foreign patents.

Immink has served in officer and board positions for a number of technical societies, government and academic organizations - including the Audio Engineering Society, IEEE, Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, and several universities. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IEE, AES, SMPTE, an Academician of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW), a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and an honorary member of the Netherlands Electronics and Radio Society (NERG).