Andrew Fitzhugh

Since 2006 I have been leading the development of MagCloud.com.  It is currently in private (alpha|beta|pick your Greek letter).

My previous 5-10 years were focused on contextual media systems, though I dabble in many digital media related projects.  The most recent included:

• Virgil, a context-sensitive media driven browser that likes to mix it up in the emerging Web 2.0 world:
  
      
   
• Halo, an immersive videoconferencing solution targeted at enterprises:
  
      

Biographical information

I studied vision, graphics, and psychology at RPI, MIT, and Stanford (B.A. in Psychology 1985), and spent two years in the Vision Group at NASA's Ames Research Center.  I joined HP as a consultant in 1987, and HP Labs in 1988.  Since then I've been involved with the development of HP's first color inkjet and laser printers, the ColorSmart color rendering system, the VidJet Pro Video Print Manager, the FlashPix tiled, multiresolution image format and its companion Internet Imaging Protocol, and the Cartogra.com (a.k.a. hpphoto.com, since replaced by Snapfish.com) photo sharing web site.

I wasted far too much of my youth pounding out miles on my bike; when I was 19 I rode solo across the country (west to east) in 28 days, camping along the way.  I raced for ~10 years with the Stanford Cycling Team both as a student and afterwards, with decent results until I upgraded to Cat 2.  My career winnings totaled at least $75.  I still enjoy riding in the San Francisco peninsula area.

VidJet Pro manuals

Occasionally I get support requests for info on the VidJet Pro.  This product went to Agilent Technologies when HP spun it off several years ago, and Agilent then sold their digital video business to another company (Pinnacle, I believe).  However, I do have original manuals and recently had them scanned and formatted as PDFs for the benefit of past customers:

• Service Guide (13MB pdf)
• User Guide (10MB pdf)
• Utilities Software Guide (5.8MB pdf)