Arlington, Va. - The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), an industry trade group representing more than 2,100 electronics, communications and IT companies, said that it will induct 11 new members into its CE Hall of Fame this October.

The 2007 class includes Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft; Amar Bose, the founder and chairman of Bose Corp.; Steve Sasson, an electrical engineer who invented the digital camera at Eastman Kodak; the German team of Karlheinz Brandenberg, Dieter Seitzer and Heinz Gerhauser, who developed the MP3 format; John McDonald, the former CEO of Casio; Dick Schulze, the founder and chairman of Best Buy; William Crutchfield, the founder of catalog retailer Crutchfield; Edward Day, the lawyer who represented the consumer electronics industry in the Betamax case; and The late Art Weinberg, who wrote about the industry for Home Furnishings Daily.

The Hall, established in 2000, enshrines inventors, executives, engineers, retailers and journalists chosen by a panel of industry judges each year.  

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