MEF Honours Jim Brailean - Mobile Video Pioneer
The Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) announced Dr. Jim Brailean as this year’s recipient of their Special Recognition Award.
The Mobile Entertainment Awards, the Meffys, are a key part of the annual MEF event, MEM, taking place at the Business Design Centre, London, 24-25 May.
This year, the Board of MEF chose to applaud the unique combination of technical and entrepreneurial skills of Dr Jim Brailean and his pioneering work on mobile video. From as early as 1993, his work on technology and standard setting laid the foundations for the mobile video industry today.
"With this award the MEF board is recognizing Jim’s tremendous drive, determination and stamina: for over 12 years he’s been focused on delivering video and audio to mobile handsets,” said Patrick Parodi, MEF Global Chair. “Not only did Jim have the vision, he also had the tenacity to overcome a great deal of skepticism to make mobile video a reality.”
"I'm deeply honoured to receive this award from my mobile media peers," said Dr Jim Brailean, cofounder, President and CEO, PacketVideo. "It takes me back to the start of my mobile media career. One of my favourite memories is the time that the team I led was considered a group of maverick, slightly wacky scientists, put in a small out of the way office so that we couldn't contaminate too many of our colleagues with our crazy mobile media ideas. Now several years later I'm proud that the work we started has become a major cornerstone of the industry that the MEF supports so ably."
For a full list of this year’s winners please visit www.m-e-f.org.
Background on Dr Jim Brailean A scientist who led the development of the MPEG-4 standards for transmission of video and audio over wireless networks, Dr. Brailean holds 16 key U.S. patents that enable advanced multimedia communications. From 1993 to 1998, he served as the chairman of the Error Resilience Video Compression Ad Hoc Group within MPEG-4.
Prior to co-founding PacketVideo in 1998, Dr. Brailean was a principal staff engineer within Motorola Corporate Research and Development Laboratories in Chicago where he managed the Advanced Video Algorithm Group, responsible for the design and development of advanced video compression and imaging algorithms. He was also a communication system engineer for Hughes Aircraft, Space and Communications Group. Dr. Brailean received his doctorate in electrical engineering from Northwestern University.
About Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF): MEF exists to represent the interests of its global membership across the mobile entertainment value chain. Our goals are to build awareness, create business development opportunities and facilitate the development of commercial guidelines and best practices to promote a healthy and profitable industry.
With headquarters in London, a Hollywood-based Americas secretariat and the newly established Asia chapter, MEF's network of members represents a veritable 'Who's Who' of mobile entertainment businesses and entrepreneurs. For more information and a full list of members please visit: www.m-e-f.org.
For further information please contact:
Ainslie MacLeod / Emma Turner
Nelson Bostock Communications
Tel: +44 (0)20 7229 4400
Email: ainslie.macleod@nelsonbostock.com
For more information on Dr Jim Brailean, please contact:
Dann Wilkens
PacketVideo
+1 858.731.5454
wilkens@pv.com