Technology & Engineering Emmy Winners Announced

NEW YORK—The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has announced the recipients of the 67th annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. Among the winners is Alexander Bain, a Scottish inventor and engineer who passed away in 1877. Bain is being recognized for the concept of scanning for image transmission in 1842-1843. Good things come to those who wait.

Here is the full list of recipients:

Pioneering Optimization of Advertising Placement in Single Channel Linear Television Programs:
BCS (Imagine Communications)
Standardization and Pioneering Development of Non-Live Broadband Captioning:
Netflix
HBO
Telestream
SMPTE
W3C
Open Modular Platform for Broadcast and Production Distribution and Conversion Equipment:
Ross Video
Development and Standardization of HDBaseT Connectivity Technology for Commercial and Residential HDMI/DVI Installations:
Valens Semiconductor
Phonetic Indexing and Timing:
Nexidia Inc.
Steganographic Technologies for Audio/Video:
Nielsen
Civolution
Digimarc
Verance
Pre-Production Visualization System:
Autodesk
Cast-Soft
Innoventive Software
Robert Abel
The Concept of Scanning for Image Transmission:
Alexander Bain
Pioneering Development of Data Drive Traffic Systems for Multichannel Environments:
MSA
Turner
Development of Enabling Technology for High Density Video Switching and Routing Solutions:
MACOM
Closed-Loop Statistical Multiplexing of Geographically Distributed Encoders:
DirecTV
Echostar
Ericsson
Harmonic