1980s

Pioneering digital multimedia and control technologies

Convergence Media was established by brother’s Paul and Steve Harris in 1984 for the original purpose of aggregating cutting-edge digital audio sampling and multimedia control technologies into interactive entertainment and showcase applications at world’s fairs, theme parks, corporate trade shows and government venues.

Aligning with Emu Systems, Roland Music, Bob Moog and Ray Kurzweil, Convergence introduced the future of digital music entertainment and production throughout an array of live showcase and automated theater venues at the Expo 86 World’s Fair in Vancouver Canada.

Leveraging emerging platform standards, the company expanded into turnkey DMX/Midi automated media control systems research and development in alignment with Roland Music.

1990s

Optical indexing, pre-jpg compression, Internet storefronts and community management

Digital multimedia systems drove mass storage needs, sparking a standards battle between Philips' ISO 9 and Sony's ISO 9660. Convergence developed multimedia database and image compression software, enabling pre-JPEG compression for imaging and cataloging.

Kodak adopted the technology through its central photo processing Qualex division as a consumer-friendly option to Photo CD, fitting 50 images on a 3.5" diskette. Collaborating with Polaroid and Kodak, Convergence automated scanning for central and one hour film processing labs throughout North America and Europe.

Expansion led to the pre-ZIP/pre-PDF multimodal .cat file compression format with auto-play, widely adopted by government agencies, art galleries, museums, and over 100,000 companies for SIC code aligned e-catalog distribution. Macromedia sought the rights to .cat before its Adobe acquisition.

With CERN’s 1993 advancement of ARPANET TCP/IP into the WWW hypertext standard, Convergence ported .cat to an internet server platform with pre-Amazon credit card transactions, that was absorbed by a Japanese contingent.

Building on core IP, Convergence transitioned to data center private label internet community platforms, utilized by thousands of companies, such as; telcos, news papers, educational, TV and media companies, including Microsoft, Softbank, Hearst Publishing and others.

2000 to 2010s

World's first heart rate smart watches and sensors

Continuing with leading-edge research, Convergence determined that the trajectory in chip processing, size, and power reductions would enable a new market in health management via smart wearable sensor devices.

The company engaged in a start-up to deliver the world's first heart rate monitor smart watch. Wrist sensors included: HR, GSR, Thermistor, ECG, PPG and systolic blood pressure via PPG/ECG PTT correlation. The technology was ultimately acquired by Intel in a bidding exchange between Apple and Samsung, as Basis Science. 

2020s

LLM Distillation, Precision RAG, S2AI, MCP/API

Expanding on machine learning research, Convergence is focused on private server AI enterprise automation – extrapolating on the converging nexus between chip compute, LLM efficiencies and agentic standards protocols.