LG Electronics CTO Receives Engineering Lifetime Achievement Award
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Aug 29, 2008
Dr. Woo Paik, president and chief technology officer (CTO) of LG Electronics Inc., received the highest technical honor bestowed on an individual by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences -- the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award.
The Academy honored Dr. Paik as the "Father of Digital TV" during the 2008 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards ceremony. The Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award honors a living individual whose contributions over a long period of time have significantly affected the state of television technology and engineering.
Dr. Paik's specific technological contributions cited by the Academy include invention of the digital video compression technology adopted by the Digital HDTV Grand Alliance, his leadership in the development of DigiCipher, the digital compression technology that is the basis for digital TV broadcasting, and his role in the development of VideoCipher, the de facto standard for distribution of scrambled cable channels over satellite. Dr. Paik's leadership has established LG Electronics as a global technology powerhouse and innovator in digital TV standards, including the new mobile/handheld DTV broadcast system now being standardized.
In 2004, he was inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame and the Academy of Digital Television Pioneers. He received the Digital Television Pioneers Award from Broadcasting & Cable Magazine in 2000, the Arthur C. Clark Award from the Satellite Broadcasting and Communications Association in 1999, an Engineering Emmy for his outstanding digital television achievements in 1996 and the Matti S. Siukola Memorial Award from the IEEE Broadcast Technology Society in 1991.
During his tenure at LG Electronics, Dr. Paik has been involved with virtually all of the company's core technologies, products and business ventures and is responsible for technology innovation in LG's four core business areas, Digital Displays, Digital Media, Mobile Communications and Digital Appliances. Dr. Paik is the Chief Technology Officer overseeing 10 R&D institutes and more than 15,000 engineers worldwide. He joined LG in 1998 as President and CTO, a position he held for seven years. From 2004-2007, he served as LG's chief technology adviser, based in the United States; he returned to LG headquarters in Seoul as President and CTO in January 2008.
He is the author of numerous technical papers and co-inventor of more than 25 inventions earning U.S. Patents in the area of digital video compression, digital transmission, and digital signal processing.
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