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Robert Safranek

American electrical engineer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ29258609 ↗
Source-derived summary

Robert Safranek from the Benevue, Inc., Warren, New Jersey, was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2015 for contributions to perceptual image and video compression and quality.

Editorial summary

“Robert Safranek” enters the record as american electrical engineer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Robert, Safranek and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Robert, Safranek and American.
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Why this record matters

“Robert Safranek” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Robert, Safranek and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 2, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q29258609. VIAF identifies the subject as 56497129. The Library of Congress control number is nr94042525. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Robert Safranek” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.