MGI's Dr. Berger to serve as the DIG committee chair
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Wed 27 Oct 99 News Release
Dr. Marc Berger reports
The Digital Imaging Group (DIG), the premier consortium of the digital
imaging industry, has elected Dr. Marc Berger, chief scientist, MGI
Software, as the DIG technical committee chair. Dr. Berger will be
responsible for overseeing and reviewing DIG technical initiatives,
conducting technical forums, managing DIG technical resources, interfacing
with other standards bodies and fostering interoperability.
"The DIG has been busy creating a number of related technologies and
standards in the last year. Marc Berger has the qualifications to ensure
our growing portfolio of technology advancements work together to deliver
on the promise of digital imaging," said Lisa Walker, president of the DIG.
As a driving force behind the growth of digital imaging industries, the
goal of the DIG is to develop and promote digital-imaging standards. DIG
member companies collaborate in small, focused initiative groups to explore
new directions in digital imaging and transform these ideas into
industry-wide solutions. Through these initiative groups, the DIG is
currently developing standards for the JPEG 2000 file format, image
metadata, Internet-imaging protocol and Flashpix.
"I am pleased to be taking an active role in the DIG to further its mission
to provide better and unique imaging solutions based on open standards, a
vision which MGI Software also shares," said Dr. Berger. "Through its Live
Picture purchase, MGI Software is assuming many of the initiatives Live
Picture has begun as founding member and technology contributor to the
DIG."
Dr. Berger was formerly chief scientist for OliVR Corporation, Ltd.
(acquired by Live Picture in 1997), an Israeli software firm that developed
Internet-image clients and servers. At Live Picture and OliVR, Berger's
work involved end-to-end imaging systems for high-resolution virtual
reality images and conventional images, including content creation, image
editing, image distribution in client/server environment and interactive
navigational image viewing. While at Live Picture, Dr. Berger was also
technical committee contracting chairman for the DIG, and was involved with
Flashpix extensions, the Flashpix test suite, interoperability among
Flashpix applications, the IIP specification and the IIP reference-server
implementation.
As chief scientist for MGI Software, Dr. Berger is responsible for
intellectual property, strategic government research and development
projects, algorithm development, technology evaluation, and liaison with
industry consortia and standards bodies. Dr. Berger holds a PhD in
mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University, and is a registered United
States patent agent.
About the DIG
Launched in October, 1997, the DIG is an open-industry consortium created
to expand the use of digital images across consumer, business and
professional imaging markets and applications. Membership gives companies
the opportunity to help define the evolving technical platforms in digital
imaging and to create solutions built on those foundations. Membership also
gives participating companies the opportunity to collaborate in future
marketing and promotional activities. Further information about the DIG is
available at www.digitalimaging.org.
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