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CEA Names Four Technology & Standards Award Winners
ARLINGTON, Va. --(Business Wire)--
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)® today announced
the recipients of the CEA Technology Leadership Awards and the CEA
Technology Achievement Award, designed to recognize individual
accomplishments in the industry's leading technology and standards
programs.
"Now in their fifth year, the CEA's Technology and Standards Awards
honor individuals who are driving innovation in the consumer electronics
industry," said Brian Markwalter, senior vice president of research and
standards,CEA. "These leaders have made major strides in the industry's
ongoing efforts to develop essential standards to enable
interoperability, reduce energy use and bring to market new devices and
services."
The CEA Technology Leadership Award, presented for commitment to
excellence as evidenced by the extent and consistency of an individual's
participation in the Technology & Standards program, honored the
following three industry leaders:
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Arthur Allison III, senior director of advanced engineering at the
National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). Allison currently
serves as vice chairman of one of the Advanced Television Systems
Committee (ATSC)'s technology groups, leading the system architecture
team and participating in multiple specialist groups. In addition,
Allison participates in the standards development activities of the
Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers and CEA. He is co-chair
of CEA's Automatic Format Description & Bar Data Working Group, which
was awarded an Emmy for its efforts to ensure video programs using
different aspect ratios are optimally displayed on consumer devices.
Prior to NAB, Allison's experience included systems designs for home
automation and TV rating system design and deployment.
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Michael Dolan, founder and president of Television Broadcast
Technology. For several years Dolan has been involved in digital
television engineering, including data broadcast system architecture,
digital receiver design and compliance. Dolan has worked for and
founded various computer graphics and real-time systems companies.
This includes early foundational work in World Wide Web Consortium
technology and analog data broadcasting. He currently chairs the ATSC
Data Broadcasting Specialist Goup and co-chairs CEA's Digital Closed
Captioning and Internet Captions working groups.
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Jon Fairhurst, manager of Consumer Electronics standards at Sharp (News - Alert)
Laboratories of America. Fairhurst is an active member of American
National Standards Institute, ATSC, CEA, International
Electrotechnical Commission (IEC (News - Alert)), Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, and Society of Motion Picture and Television
Engineers. Today, Fairhurst is the Technical Advisor for the US
Technical Advisory Group for IEC TC100, administered by CEA. He also
chairs CEA's Television Manufacturers Caucus and various other working
groups in CEA and IEC where he has led efforts to create standards for
accurate measurement of TV power consumption.
The 2012 CEA Technology Achievement Award, which focuses on an
individual's contributions to new technologies or significant
improvements made to existing technologies and participation and
leadership in CEA's Technology & Standards program, was awarded to
John Roman, director of broadband and regulatory policy for Intel (News - Alert).
Roman has over 25 years of experience with various spectrum, broadband,
and regulatory policy matters. Roman has chaired several industry
technology working groups, including the Wi-Fi Alliance (News - Alert) RF Health and
Science Task Group and the CEA Wireless Power Safety & Emissions Working
Group.
CEA leads technology manufacturers in fostering CE industry growth by
developing industry standards and technical specifications that enable
new products to come to market and encourage interoperability with
existing devices. CEA maintains an unmatched reputation as a credible
and flexible standards-making body and has earned ANSI accreditation.
Through more than 70 committees, subcommittees and working groups, the
CEA Technology and Standards program provides a unique and efficient
forum in which technical professionals throughout the industry develop a
unified technology roadmap and address technical issues critical to CE
industry growth. For information about CEA Technology and Standards,
visit CE.org/standards.
About CEA:
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) is the preeminent trade
association promoting growth in the $206 billion U.S. consumer
electronics industry. More than 2,000 companies enjoy the benefits of
CEA membership, including legislative advocacy, market research,
technical training and education, industry promotion, standards
development and the fostering of business and strategic
relationships. CEA also owns and produces the International CES (News - Alert) - The
Global Stage for Innovation. All profits from CES are reinvested into
CEA's industry services. Find CEA online at www.CE.org,
www.DeclareInnovation.com
and through social media: https://www.facebook.com/#!/CEAfeed,
http://twitter.com/ceafeed,
http://blog.ce.org/.
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