Intel Fellows are selected for their technical leadership and outstanding contributions to the company and the industry.

Brendan Traw

Brendan Traw is an Intel Fellow and chief technology officer for the Digital Home Group at Intel Corporation. He is responsible for the technology roadmap, industry standards, strategic initiatives and architecture for Intel's consumer electronics platforms.

Previously, Traw focused on the management and protection of entertainment content in digital environments, leading the team which developed Digital Transmission Content Protection (DTCP), the basis for content protection in today's digital home networks, as well as a range of other content protection solutions for recordable DVD, DVD-Audio, SDcard, and the DVI/HDMI display interfaces. A recognized leader across the computer, consumer electronics and content industries, he has published numerous papers and holds 19 patents in the areas of content protection, system architecture, and network security.

Traw received his Ph.D. in computer information science from the University of Pennsylvania.