The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) has named 16 new SMPTE Fellows for 2016, the organization's 100th year. SMPTE said the status of Fellow is "conferred on individuals who have, through their proficiency and contributions to the industry, attained an outstanding rank among members of the society."

The new Fellows will be acknowledged during the SMPTE 2016 Annual Technical Conference & Exhibition in Los Angeles at the SMPTE Honors & Awards ceremony scheduled for Monday, October 24, and formally elevated to their new status at the next day's Fellows Luncheon — open only to SMPTE Fellows and Life Fellows — on Tuesday, October 25.

Selected as SMPTE 2016 Fellows are: 

  • Fernando Bittencourt, CTO and General Director of Engineering at TV Globo
  • Tim Borer, Lead Engineer at BBC Research and Development
  • Paul E. Briscoe, Consultant at Televisionary Consulting
  • Matthew Cowan, CTO at Entertainment Technology Canada Ltd.
  • Ian Fletcher, CTO at Grass Valley, a Belden Brand
  • John Footen, Global Head of the Broadcast Consulting Practice at Cognizant
  • Walt Husak, Director of Image Technologies at Dolby Laboratories Inc.
  • John Mailhot, CTO of Networking and Infrastructure at Imagine Communications
  • Thomas Bause Mason, Director of Advanced Digital Media Technology for NBCUniversal
  • Stan Moote, CTO at IABM
  • Michelle Munson, CEO and Co-founder of Aspera, an IBM Company
  • Joshua Pines, Vice President of Imaging, Research and Development at Technicolor Production Services
  • Stephan Scheel, Senior Director, Media Workflow, at Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
  • Tom Sprague, OTO at Museum of Broadcast Technology and CTO at National Boston LLC
  • Masayuki Sugawara, Executive Engineer at NEC Corporation
  • Peter G. Wharton, Vice President for Technology and Business Development at BroadStream

SMPTE's official announcement, including biographies of the 2016 Fellows, is on the organization's website.

SMPTE: www.smpte.org