Marconi Society Taps Digital Video Pioneer Arun Netravali for 2017 Marconi Prize

Former Bell Labs President Arun Netravali was awarded the Marconi Prize by the Marconi Society for his pioneering work on video compression standards that were the base technology for MPEG 1, 2 and 4 video. The standards enabled video services including digital TV, HDTV and streaming video and are used in most TVs sets and all mobile phones today, said the society in a Friday announcement. The awards ceremony will be in Summit, New Jersey, Oct. 3, ahead of a symposium at Nokia Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, on the societal impact of digital video.