ITL’s Wo Chang Receives ISO Award

Wo Chang, Information Access Division, received an award for Special Appreciation for Excellent Standards Management from the International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) Joint Technical Committee (JTC) 1/Subcommittee (SC) 29 Working Group 11 -- Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG).   In addition, a Letter of Appreciation was sent to the NIST Director, Dr. James Turner, from Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione, Convenor, ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 noting Chang’s contributions to MPEG and thanking NIST for the “great standard support for advancing the state of the art of multimedia into the industry.”

The award citation is written as:

“ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 (MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group) "Coding of Moving Pictures and Audio," recognizes and appreciates the resources provided by the National Institute of Standards Technology for enabling the outstanding performance, dedication, patience, creativity, and organization shown by Mr. Wo Chang for his excellent management of standard specifications, working documents, reference software, and testing materials that has played a vital role in the advancement of international multimedia standards.”

For over seven years, in addition to actively participating in the MPEG standard technology development, Chang provided the standard documents management infrastructure for ISO’s MPEG Working Group.   Chang’s involvement included management support via web services for over 24 gigabytes of 20,000 archived standard documents (growing by 500 at each quarterly meeting), reference software, and testing materials serving over 3000 international experts from over 25 countries. 

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