SMPTE To Honor 18 Outstanding Members

Eighteen new Fellows will be honored at the SMPTE Honors and AwardsCeremony to be held during the 145th Technical Conference andExhibition on Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2003, at the Hilton New York, andalso during the Fellows Luncheon on Saturday afternoon.

These are some of the events taking place during our 145th SMPTETechnical Conference and Exhibition in New York City, Nov. 12 to 15,2003. For more information about the conference, please visit the SMPTEwebsite at www.smpte.org.

Listed below are the new SMPTE Fellows and background information oneach honoree:

Darcy Antonellis
Darcy Antonellis is executive-vice president, distribution andtechnology operations for Warner Bros. Technical Operations, Inc. Herresponsibilities include the management of the studio and networktechnical operations components for content storage, fulfillment anddistribution. Prior to joining Warner Bros. she worked at CBS Inc. for14 years and held several positions. She won two Emmys for TechnicalProduction of both the 1994 Lillehammer and 1998 Nagano WinterOlympics, which she received while working for CBS as vice-president ofOlympic and Technical Operations. In 2002, she was selected as one ofBroadcasting and Cable magazine's top ten "Next Wave" female industryexecutives in the area of technology. Antonellis has served as ProgramChair for SMPTE conferences and is a Manager in the HollywoodSection.

Curt Behlmer
Curt Behlmer is the managing partner and CTO of Digital Cinema Venture(DCV), where he is responsible for management of technical affairs,including system design and integration, vendor relations, training,and DCV's research and development effort. He is a 2003 recipient ofthe John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, awarded by the Academy ofMotion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) in recognition of hislong-standing support and service to the Academy and the motion pictureindustry. Behlmer is Chair of the SMPTE Digital Cinema TechnologyCommittee and is a member of both the Standards Committee and the StudyGroup on Audio Production and Post-Production for Motion Picture andTelevision Entertainment Programming.

Roy T. Brubaker
Roy Brubaker is senior-vice president, video postproduction andgeneral manager, film laboratory, for Crest National. Prior to that hewas the general manager of FotoKem's video services for seven years,and prior to that, vice-president of operations for worldwidedistribution at Lorimar Studios. While employed at Lorimar, he was anactive participant in the launch of the electronic post-productionprocess for editing and distributing television programming worldwide,which continues to be the standard today. He has over 20 yearsexperience in operations and administration for motion picture,television, and videodisc/DVD. Brubaker is SMPTE's SustainingMembership Chairman and a Governor for the Hollywood Region.

Colin F. J. Davis
Colin Davis is vice-president, imaging technologies, at Command Post& Transfer Corp., responsible for the film operations in bothToronto and Vancouver. Prior to that, he worked at Kodak for 27 yearsand held numerous positions, eventually becoming marketingvice-president and business manager, entertainment imaging, KodakCanada. In 1996, he was the recipient of the prestigious Bill HilsonAward, "for outstanding service contributing to the development of themotion picture industry in Canada." Also, in 2002, he was a recipientof the Canadian Picture Pioneers Ancillary Award for his contributionto the motion picture business. Davis is an active member of SMPTE andhas held numerous positions in the Toronto Section and at Internationalconferences.

Bruce Devlin
Bruce Devlin is currently a principal research engineer at Snell &Wilcox. He has contributed to the compression technology portfolio ofthe company and has been awarded numerous patents. Devlin set up theEuropean Union Integrated Society Technology funded project G-FORS,aimed to create a standardized file format for the exchange of contentbetween storage devices. This format received the DigitalTV Editorspick of the show at NAB 2001. Devlin is co-chair of the Pro-MPEG/AAFMXF File Format Working Group, chairman of the Pro-MPEG MXFImplementation Group, chair of the AAF conformance activity, and mostrecently, an active participant on SMPTE technology committees. He haspublished many articles on the subject of MXF.

Alan A. Hart
Alan Hart is currently an executive-vice president at ModernVideoFilm, where he is responsible for all technical resources. Hestarted his television career in 1967 with KCET Channel 28, the PBSstation in Los Angeles, following his discharge from the U.S. Navy.During this time, he was involved in numerous major drama productionsand musical shows that highlighted many major artists. Hart was amember of the Emmy winning crew for the first Hollywood TelevisionTheatre production, "The Andersonville Trial," directed by George C.Scott. As chief engineer, he was responsible for installation of theHarris BT 55U1 UHF transmitter and a new broadcast antenna. Hart hasserved as Manager and Chair of the Hollywood Section. He is now servinghis second term as a Governor for the Hollywood Region and is also onthe Board of the SMPTE Foundation.

Masaru Jibiki
Masaru "Mac" Jibiki retired from Fuji Photo Film Co. in 2003 after atenure of 37 years. He contributed significantly to building new filmstocks such as the industry's first high-speed color negative, Fuji500T speed product. Jibiki held numerous positions at Fuji in both theU.S. and Japan. In the U.S., he worked as sole North American technicalmanager and was responsible for handling customer concerns and testingnew film products. He was also the chief liaison between themanufacturing facility and end users. In Japan, he worked on theF-Series of color-negative film products that were introduced in thelate 1980s. Jibiki has served on various committees and organizations,including SMPTE Standards committees, and the Fuji Gold Medal Awardcommittee.

Stephen B. Lyman
Stephen Lyman is a senior staff broadcast engineer at DolbyLaboratories, Inc. He began his career designing custom audio equipmentfor a recording studio and console manufacturer. Lyman made thetransition to television after joining Central Dynamics, where heworked on the system design of large video production switchers. Priorto joining Dolby, he worked at the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. anddeveloped a system of standard audio and video measurement techniques.He was heavily involved with the company's effort to implementhigh-definition television, digital audio broadcasting, and other newtechnologies. Lyman has been involved in the development of audio andvideo standards within the Audio Engineering Society, IEEE, and SMPTEthroughout his career.

Thomas L. McMahon
Tom McMahon is a senior architect for Dolby Research, where he isresponsible for efforts to identify, analyze, evaluate, and pursueopportunities for the company to establish positions in new technologyareas. In the early 1990s, McMahon was a consultant for variousclients, including Sony Pictures, Adobe Systems, and Mercury Computer,in the areas of computer graphics and video systems architecture. Inearly 1982, he co-founded Symbolics Graphics Division, rising to theposition of vice-president and general manager of that division, and VPof R&D for the corporation over an 11-year period. McMahon iscurrently a SMPTE Head of Delegation to MPEG. He is also on the Boardof the Hollywood Post Alliance.

Takuo Miyagishima
Takuo Miyagishima began his career with Panavision in 1955. Since then,under his guidance, the company has been honored with two AcademyAwards of Merit: In 1978, for the Panavision Panaflex motion picturesystem, and in 1994, for the anamorphic taking system. He has receivednumerous Scientific and Engineering and Technical Achievement Awards.In 2000, he received the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation fromAMPAS. He was also the 1991 recipient of the Fuji Gold Medal Award fromSMPTE. Miyagishima serves on the SMPTE Projection Technology Committeeand the Working Group on Telecine Practices. He is an associate memberof the American Society of Cinematographers.

Roger R. A. Morton
Roger R. A. Morton is a research fellow at Eastman Kodak Co.,currently working on scene-to-screen optimization of both cinema andtelevision systems. Morton has recently developed a method to predictone type of digital artifact in motion picture systems. During hiscareer, he has developed new digital concepts and brought them tomarket. He is a pioneer in algorithms for image analysis, and developedmethods for objectively comparing motion picture systems that utilizedifferent technologies. He has also made significant contributions todigital copiers, digital three-dimensional printing and display, andautomatic audio equalization. Morton has received 64 U.S. patents, plusthe corresponding foreign patents. He has authored 22 publishedscientific works.

Peter Mulder
Peter Mulder is the owner of Digiframe, consulting in digital mediatechnology. He has been involved in system design and integration ofmany analog and digital television production facilities, includingstudios, outside broadcast vehicles, editing, and film transfer tools.In 1998, he received the award for "outstanding contribution" to theenhanced and interactive TV Davic 1.3 specification. In 2002, hereceived the TV-Anytime award for his contributions to the TV-Anytimespecification. Mulder is an active participant in manybroadcast-related international standards committees such as the SMPTEengineering committees, EBU, and DVB-MHP. He is chairman of the Ad-hocGroup on MPEG-7-MXF Harmonization.

Iain A. Neil
Iain Neil is currently executive vice-president, R&D and optics,and chief technical officer at Panavision, Inc. His work has includedthe design and development of the Primo series of spherical andanamorphic lenses, both fixed focal length and zooms; video systems;viewfinder optics; and HDTV optical systems. Neil has over 150worldwide patents, issued and pending, in visual and infrared opticaldesign, systems for defense, industrial and consumer applications,including HDTV. He has also given numerous presentations, many of whichhave been published. Neil has received 11 Scientific and TechnicalAchievement awards for the design of lenses and optical systems, and 2Emmy Statuette engineering awards. He is also the 1999 recipient of theFuji Gold Medal Award from SMPTE, in recognition of his lens work.

D. Peter Owen
Peter Owen currently serves as chairman and technical consultant ofthe International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) Council. Prior tojoining IBC, he worked at Quantel, Inc., where he held severalpositions involving product design, development, manufacturing,customer support, and interfacing with the creative and technicalcommunities. He was also involved with promoting emerging technologiessuch as nonlinear applications and high-definition television. Owen hasserved as International Governor of SMPTE. As a member of the U.K.DTI/DCMS e-cinema group, he managed and presented "Celluloid orSilicon," a regional road show bringing issues of digital-in-the-cinemato a wide audience. He has presented technical papers at internationalconferences and other industry events.

Karl Paulsen
Karl Paulsen is vice-president of engineering at Azcar USA and AzcarTechnologies, where he leads the technology efforts and manages a staffof Karl Paulsen 22 engineers and technicians. He has spent nearly threedecades in engineering operations and management at broadcasttelevision stations, fixed and mobile production companies, andmedia-graphics facilities. Paulsen has written over 120 articles in thefield of video and media server technologies, including two books. Hecurrently participates on SMPTE engineering committees and has servedas Section Chair and held other Officer positions in the PacificNorthwest Section. Paulsen is a Life Member and certified broadcastprofessional engineer in the SBE.

Graham Roe
Graham Roe has enjoyed a lifetime of experience at the leading edge ofbroadcast technology. He made numerous contributions to the Europeancolor system trials in the late 60s, culminating with the launch of theU.K. color TV service in 1967. Roe also introduced and refined theChroma Key to replace back projection and led the development team thatdesigned the pioneering "Ace" field store standards converter. In 1999,he started his own technology consultancy, specializing in the latestbroadcast developments, from media streaming to HDTV and metadata. Roehas written many articles for broadcast magazines and has worked onSMPTE and RTS (Royal Television Society) technology committees, as wellas the IBC conference committee.

Stephen C. Scott
Stephen Scott is a television equipment architect consultant. With thephilosophy that equipment design goes beyond the boundaries of theproduct itself and includes its installation, usage, interoperabilitywith operators and other equipment, long-term serviceability, andoverall functionality, Scott is currently exploring several productconcepts. He previously worked at Miranda Technologies as group leaderof an engineering design team and concentrated on time code, audio, andthe non-active picture aspects of the digital video signal. Scott has aU.S. patent relating to the recovery of Vertical Interval Time Code(VITC). He participates on several SMPTE technology committees.

Leon Silverman
Leon Silverman, executive vice-president of Laser Pacific Media Corp.,has helped introduce new technology to Hollywood for the past 26 years.He played a key role in establishing Laser Pacific's electroniclaboratory, which pioneered many of the tools and techniques that arenow the standard for the electronic post-production of film. LaserPacific has received two Emmy awards in recognition of hiscontributions in engineering development. He is currently focused onnew digital post-production methods and technology, which will expandthe company's role in the motion picture community. Silverman is aManager of the SMPTE Hollywood Section and also chairs the EducationCommittee. He is president and a founder of the Hollywood PostAlliance.