Ray Dolby Honored At IBC 2000

Audio Industry Pioneer Wins Prestigious John Tucker Award

12-Sep-00

Ray Dolby was presented with the John Tucker Award of Excellence for his contribution to the broadcasting industry at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2000 in Amsterdam. The John Tucker Award is given in acknowledgment of an internationally significant contribution to an innovative aspect of electronic media by an individual or group of people.""I am honored to receive the John Tucker Award this year,"" said Ray Dolby, Chairman and Founder of Dolby Laboratories. ""Throughout the 35-year history of my company, we have endeavored to contribute useful and lasting technologies in professional recording, the cinema, consumer electronics and broadcasting. I am indeed grateful to the IBC for this acknowledgment of our efforts in broadcasting.""About Ray DolbyRay Dolby was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1933. From 1949 to 1952 he worked on various audio and instrumentation projects at Ampex Corporation; from 1952 to 1957 he was mainly responsible for the development of the electronic aspects of the Ampex videotape recording system. In 1957 he received a B.S. from Stanford University and, upon being awarded a Marshall Scholarship and a National Science Foundation graduate fellowship, left Ampex for further study at Cambridge University in England. He received a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge in 1961, and was elected a Fellow of Pembroke College (Honorary Fellow, 1983). During his last year at Cambridge, he was also a consultant to the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.In 1963, Dolby accepted a two-year appointment as a United Nations advisor in India, and then returned to England in 1965 to establish Dolby Laboratories in London. In 1976 he moved to San Francisco, where his company established additional offices, laboratories, and manufacturing facilities. He holds more than 50 U.S. patents and has written papers on videotape recording, long wavelength X-ray analysis and noise reduction.Dolby is a fellow and past President of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), and a recipient of its Silver and Gold Medal Awards. He is also a fellow of the British Kinematograph, Sound, and Television Society and an Honorary Member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE), which in the past has awarded him its Samuel L. Warner Memorial Award, Alexander M. Poniatoff Gold Medal and Progress Medal. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted him a Scientific and Engineering Award in 1979 and an OscarÆ in 1989, when he was also presented an EmmyÆ by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 1986, Dolby was made an honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE).In 1997, Dolby received the U.S. National Medal of Technology, the IEEE's Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award, and the American Electronic Association's Medal of Achievement. That year he also received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Cambridge University, and in 1999 was awarded an honorary Doctor of the University degree by the University of York.

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