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As CTO and senior vice president of research and
development at TiVo in Alviso, Calif., Jim Barton sees
himself as an educator rather than an information
machine.
Barton works very closely with TiVo R&D, overseeing
a staff of five top TiVo engineers and developing
technology and services for the digital-video
recorder company. He also weighs in on company
and product strategy and says he acts as a
"go-between to help make sure the stuff we're doing
in R&D matches up with how our IT systems are
being moved forward."
The company just passed the 500,000 subscriber
mark. One challenge for Barton is to protect people's
rights to fair use of content coming into their homes while also making sure
copyright owners have reasonable control over what is happening with their
content. For users, TiVo represents a step toward a new idea of how to
define a computer.
With each TiVo receiver having 35GB of disk storage, the total storage
remotely managed by TiVo over its distributed system is into the "tens of
petabytes," Barton says.
And yes, Barton does have a TiVo -- actually, he has six of them, some
dedicated to particular topics such as educational shows or "fun" shows. As
for his current top show, the CBS drama "CSI," Barton says "of course, I
never miss an episode."
-- S.S.
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