Dolby Laboratories Inc.’s Craig Todd, senior member of the technical staff at Dolby Laboratories Inc., was presented with The Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award for outstanding achievement in the motion-imaging industry on Friday, October 25, 2002, at the Doubletree Hotel in Pasadena, Calif., during the 144th SMPTE Technical Conference.
The Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions in the design and development of new and improved methods and/or apparatus for sound-for-film motion pictures. As one of the primary designers of Dolby Digital and Dolby E coding technologies, Todd was honored for his substantial contributions in the development of multichannel film sound, his efforts to bring discrete multichannel audio to the consumer and his involvement in the ACATS/ATSC effort to set the DTV standard for the U.S.
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