NVIDIA Founder Jensen Huang To Receive Lifetime Achievement Emmys – MASHAHER

Jensen Huang, whose work as founder and CEO of NVIDIA has steered advancements in accelerated computing and is currently driving pivotal work in generative AI, is set to receive the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award during the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.

Also during the ceremony, which will be held on Oct. 23 at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Center, software developer Adobe will receive the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, as well as an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy for the development of its Substance Painter, a non-destructive 3D texture painting application.

Also receiving Engineering Emmys are Tom Ohanian, Ken Goekjian, Joel Swan and Victor Young, for the development of the Avid Multicamera System; and Paul Pan, Yanchong Zhao, Tie Su and Shimeng Bei for the development of the DJI Ronin series of camera stabilization systems.

Recipients additionally include Stuart Geman, Kevin Manbeck, John Mertus and Michael Braca for the development of MTI Film’s DRS Nova film and video restoration software; Benjamin Graf for the development of Accentize’s dxRevive Pro speech-restoration plugin; Jeremy Hochman, Chris Byrne, Colin Cook and Justin Nicolaides for Megapixel’s HELIOS processing platform for LED walls; Craig Seidel for the MovieLabs Digital Distribution Framework; and The Tiffen Company for the development of the Steadicam Volt camera stabilization technology.

“This year we honor a diverse group of technologies that enable and advance the storytelling process for television production,” said committee co-chairs Barry Zegel and Wendy Aylsworth in a released statement. “Electro/mechanical camera stabilization systems, software programs that aid the editing and creation process, support for LED volumes production, the MDDF (MovieLabs Digital Distribution Framework) standard, and the use of generative artificial intelligence tools are all included in this year’s awards. This wide range of technologies demonstrates the amazing achievements throughout our industry.”