MEDIA MONDAY
		Monday 9:45 - 10:35 AM January 10 2011 Monday Keynote Gary Sullivan Microsoft

Gary J. Sullivan has held leadership positions in a number of video and image coding organizations since 1996, including chairmanship or co-chairmanship of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG), the video subgroup of the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG), the ITU-T/ISO/IEC Joint Video Team (JVT), the JPEG XR subgroup of the ITU-T/ISO/IEC Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG), and most recently the ITU-T/ISO/IEC Joint Collaborative Team for Video Coding (JCT-VC). He is best known for leading the development of the ITU-T H.264 | ISO/IEC 14496-10 MPEG-4 Advanced Video Coding (AVC) standard from the inception of the project through several editions and extension efforts, including the Fidelity Range Extensions (FRExt), Professional Profiles, Scalable Video Coding (SVC), and 3D / Stereo / Multiview Video Coding (MVC). He is a Video/Image Technology Architect in the Windows division of Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft he has been the originator and lead designer of the DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA) video decoding feature of the Microsoft Windows operating system. His research interests and areas of publication include image and video compression, rate-distortion optimization, motion estimation and compensation, scalar and vector quantization, and error/packet-loss resilient video coding.

He has received the IEEE Consumer Electronics Engineering Excellence Award, the INCITS Technical Excellence Award, the IMTC Leadership Award, the J. B. Speed Professional Award in Engineering, the Microsoft Technical Achievement in Standardization Award, and the Microsoft Business Achievement in Standardization Award. The standardization projects that he led for development of the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video coding standard have been recognized by an ATAS Primetime Emmy Engineering Award and a pair of NATAS Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and SPIE.

Dr. Sullivan holds B.S. and M.Eng. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Louisville, and Ph.D. and Engineers degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. Prior to joining Microsoft in 1999, he was the manager of Communications Core Research at PictureTel Corporation, a Howard Hughes Fellow and member of the technical staff in the Advanced Systems Division of the Hughes Aircraft Corporation, and an avionics software engineer at Texas Instruments.