58th Annual Emmy Awards Technology & Engineering
On January 8th I had the privilege to attend the 58th Annual Emmy Awards for Technology & Engineering in Las Vegas and receive, together with other co-workers, an award. In case you did not know, Adobe Inc., among other well known companies in this industry got an award for advancing streaming technology, specifically video streaming over the internet.
The actual team at Adobe working on Flash Video technology has remained small over the years. So it was fairly easy to get the most important people from our engineering teams to be on stage to receive the award, something Microsoft and Apple were apparently not able to do:
(Engineers in suits! I am the second guy from the left, low resolution is on purpose to protect the innocent.)
And here is a close-up of the award:
Why did we get the award? Well, some will understand and some will not. I will dwell into my personal opinion at some point, right now I do not have the energy to defend myself in that regard :-) It is interesting though that all the major players did receive the award, which is more of a sign that it is really about the acknowledgement that video on web has finally become mainstream. This has been the dream of many for decades, but it really started taking off 2 or 3 years ago.
I am also happy for another award winner this year: John Carmack. He received two awards, one for Doom and one for Quake. These two games were definitely ground breaking and help shape the gaming industry to what it is now.
The actual team at Adobe working on Flash Video technology has remained small over the years. So it was fairly easy to get the most important people from our engineering teams to be on stage to receive the award, something Microsoft and Apple were apparently not able to do:
(Engineers in suits! I am the second guy from the left, low resolution is on purpose to protect the innocent.)
And here is a close-up of the award:
Why did we get the award? Well, some will understand and some will not. I will dwell into my personal opinion at some point, right now I do not have the energy to defend myself in that regard :-) It is interesting though that all the major players did receive the award, which is more of a sign that it is really about the acknowledgement that video on web has finally become mainstream. This has been the dream of many for decades, but it really started taking off 2 or 3 years ago.
I am also happy for another award winner this year: John Carmack. He received two awards, one for Doom and one for Quake. These two games were definitely ground breaking and help shape the gaming industry to what it is now.
Labels: emmy awards video
posted by Tinic Uro at 2:29 PM
6 Comments:
That is very cool. Do list the names of the others in that photo.
Tinic, congrats... And yes you look good in suite :-)
I could recognize you as soon as I saw the photograph :)
cheers,
-abdul
Congratulations boy!
Hey, Congratulations!
You guys really have revolutionized how we experience media.
Congratulations, well deserved!!
yeah,congrats to the whole team,well deserved :-)
Nice they gave all the leading companies awards for their achievements in that sector,its generally great to see streaming video everywhere now, still i´m most impressed with what you guys at macromedia/adobe did,i guess noone was expecting flv to work so well and take over the market to a big part so quickly :)
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