Education
University of Utah.
University of Utah.
As a teenager in the 1960s, Ingebretsen built robots and primitive computers that could talk. As a University of Utah graduate student in the early 1970s, Ingebretsen assisted Doctor Thomas G. Stockham in the development of Stockham"s restoration technique for sound and images. This work led to Radio Corporation of America"s Caruso-A Legendary Performer that applied Stockham"s restoration techniques to acoustic recordings of opera great Enrico Caruso.
After graduation in 1975, Ingebretsen joined Stockham at Soundstream Incorporated., a Utah company where Ingebretsen wrote the software for the first practical digital audio editing system.
Soundstream briefly operated an editing studio at a Paramount Pictures studio lot in Los Los Angeles Ingebretsen commuted from Utah to Los Angeles, where he supervised the new digital recording for the 1982 re-release of Disney’s Fantasia.
Soundstream dissolved in 1985 and Ingebretsen spent the next 15 years in near anonymity in Salt Lake City, founding a series of small high-tech companies. Ingebretsen also helped pioneer satellite communications technology.
In recent years, he worked for a Centerville-based startup that develops software for hand-held computers.
On 2 March 2003 Ingebretsen died of heart failure at the age of 54 at his Salt Lake City home.