IMTC Recognizes Technology & Industry Leaders
Business Wire, Feb 23, 2010
SAN RAMON, Calif. — The International Multimedia Telecommunications Consortium (IMTC) is
delighted to honor the leadership and lifetime achievements of two
eminent multimedia pioneers and their contributions to the IP Video
Telephony industry. The awards presentation will be held in Lausanne,
Switzerland on March 3, 2010.
In order to be eligible for this award, candidates must have
contributed to the development and advancement of telecommunication
standards specifically addressing IP Video services, products, software,
communication protocols, video, data and audio encoding or decoding
technologies. A candidate is considered eligible based on their overall
contributions, explained Anatoli Levine, IMTC President and Director,
Product Management for RADVISION. IMTC is pleased to recognize the
extraordinary caliber of these individuals who have significantly
influenced our industry, especially in multimedia research, development,
standardization, education and management.
IMTC will present its prestigious Leadership Award to Pierre-Andr
Probst, former Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 16 (SG16) and Executive
Vice President of Swisscom, for his long and outstanding career in CCITT
and ITU standardization. For over 30 years, Mr. Probst participated in
standardization work as delegate, Rapporteur, Working Party and Study
Group Chairman. During his ITU career, Mr. Probst was instrumental in
the creation of SG16 reuniting the “conferencing” subjects dispersed in
SG8, SG14, and SG15 into a single multimedia study group, and he served
as the first Chairman of ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia Systems, Services and
Terminals) from 1997 to 2008.
In parallel with his ITU-T participation, Pierre-Andr Probst led a very
active professional life at Swisscom with a full range of
responsibilities; starting as an Engineer, he retired a few years ago as
Member of the Management Board and Executive Vice President for
Corporate Operations. His professional career started as a Research
assistant at the High Frequency Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute
of Technology in Zurich in the early seventies. Mr. Probst holds a
Master of Sciences in electrical engineering from the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ).
An IMTC Fellowship award will be presented to Mr. Jim Polizotto, former
IMTC Secretary and Vice President of Global Inventures, for his many
years of outstanding service to IMTC, for his numerous contributions to
the industry and for, more recently, running the IMTC Secretariat with
engineering precision. Mr. Polizottos association with IMTC spanned
almost 15 years. He served on the IMTC Board of Directors, was Treasurer
from 1995 to 2000 and Secretary from 2001 to September 2009. Mr.
Polizotto has extensive experience in networking, video streaming and
standards based systems technology. From 1994 until October 2001, Jim
Polizotto held several engineering director level positions for CLI and
VTEL, and he was instrumental in the delivery of several H.320 and H.323
video conferencing solutions. Mr. Polizotto holds a BA degree from the
University of Rochester in New York.
I am deeply honored to receive the IMTC Fellowship award. I have served
IMTC since 1995 in various capacities as Director, Treasurer and finally
as IMTC Secretary, and I have developed many close friendships during
that time. IMTC has been a leader in the telecommunications industry,
especially ensuring interoperability of products, and I am certain that
the organization will continue to fulfill that role in the future,
announced Jim Polizotto upon hearing of his award from IMTC.
Information on all IMTC fellows can be found at our website http://imtc.org/about/fellows.asp.
IMTC will also present Service Awards to four long-standing Board
Members and Officers: Masashi Tonomura, Senior Software Engineer, Sony;
Pablo merkur Kohan, CEO, XIMPO; Jim Polizotto, Vice President, Global
Inventures and Susan Lowe, Executive Director, Global Inventures
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