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SciTech Awards: Academy Celebrates Theatrical Exhibition Advancements

Dolby, IMAX. Barco, Christie and Pixar honorees are among those feted Friday at the Academy Museum.

Academy Plaques were presented to Michael Perkins, Gerwin Damberg, Trevor Davies and Martin J. Richards for the Christie E3LH Dolby Vision HDR cinema projection system, which is a collaboration between Dolby and Christie’s engineering teams; Steve Read and Barry Silverstein, for the IMAX Prismless laser projector; and Peter Janssens, Goran Stojmenovik and Wouter D’Oosterlinck, for the Barco RGB laser projector. Technical Achievement Award recipients included Jeff Lait, Dan Bailey and Nick Avramoussis for work on OpenVDB; Lucas Miller, Christopher Jon Horvath, Steve LaVietes and Joe Ardent for the open-source Alembic CG interchange system; Oliver Castle, Marcus Schoo and Keith Lackey for their work on the Atlas scene description framework; and James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd for the High-Density Encoding (HDE) lossless compression algorithm within the Codex recording system. Arnold Peterson, Elia P. Popov and John Frazier were honored for the Blind Driver Roof Pod used in stunt driving; and Jon G. Belyeu, for the Movie Works cable cutter devices.

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