Devlin Named SMPTE Fellow
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12 November 2003 -- White Plains, NY -- Bruce Devlin, principal research engineer at Snell & Wilcox, was among the eighteen new Fellows who were honoured at the SMPTE Honours and Awards Ceremony held during the 145th Technical Conference and Exhibition today at the Hilton New York. "A Fellow of the Society is one who has, by proficiency and contributions, attained an outstanding rank among engineers or executives in the motion picture, television or related industries." Devlin has contributed to the compression technology portfolio of the company and has been awarded numerous patents. Devlin set up the European Union Integrated Society Technology funded project G-FORS, aimed to create a standardised file format for the exchange of content between storage devices. This format received the DigitalTV Editors pick of the show at NAB 2001. Devlin is co-chair of the Pro-MPEG/AAF MXF File Format Working Group, chairman of the Pro-MPEG MXF Implementation Group, chair of the AAF conformance activity, and most recently, an active participant on SMPTE technology committees. He has published numerous articles on the subject of MXF.
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