Dolby's Craig Todd to Receive SMPTE Award

Craig Todd, a senior member of Dolby's technical staff, will be presented with The Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award for outstanding achievement in the motion imaging industry at the 144th SMPTE Technical Conference in Pasadena, Calif. on Oct. 25.

The award recognizes outstanding contributions in the design and development of new and improved methods and/or apparatus for sound-on-film motion pictures.

Todd will receive the award based on his contributions in the development of multichannel film sound, his efforts to bring discrete multichannel audio to the consumer and for his involvement in the ACAT/ATSC effort to set the DTV standard for the United States.