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Ray Dolby to receive Award
by Jolex Del Pilar
Thursday, July 24, 2003
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Honors Ray Dolby with Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences will honor Ray Dolby with the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2003 Primetime Emmy Engineering Awards on September 13.
The award will be given to Mr. Dolby in recognition of his career achievements, including practical noise reduction systems for improving sound quality in a variety of professional and consumer environments.
The Academy’s Engineering awards are overseen by the Technology and Convergence Awards Committee Co-Chairs Cristy Trembly and Brian Seth Hurst The Emmy Award is given to an individual, company, or an organization for developments in engineering that are either so extensive an improvement on existing methods or so innovative in nature that they materially affect the transmission, recording, or reception of television.
--- Jolex Del Pilar |