New York / Los Angeles – February 21, 2024- The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS) today announced the recipients of the 75th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy® Awards. The ceremony will take place in partnership with the NAB New York media & technology convention as part of their convention in New York, October 2024, at the Javits Center.
Artist, innovator, and producer of Tom Waits For No One, John Lamb, and Bruce Lyon, CEO of Integrated Media Technologies, have been honored with the prestigious Emmy® Award for Technology & Engineering by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Lamb and Lyon are recognized for the transformational Lyon Lamb Video Animation System they co-invented nearly 50 years ago. “I am so honored for this recognition by the National Academy all these years later,” said Lamb.
The Technology & Engineering Emmy® are awarded to a living individual, a company or organization for developments in engineering technologies that “are so innovative in nature that they materially have affected television.”
"As we commemorate 75 years of this prestigious award, this year's winners join a legacy of visionaries who use technology to shape the future of television," said Dina Weisberger, Co-Chair NATAS Technology Achievement Committee.
The individuals and companies that will be honored at the event follow.
2024 Technology & Engineering
Emmy Award Honorees
Pioneering Development of Inexpensive Video Technology for Animation
Lyon Lamb (Bruce Lyon and John Lamb)
Large Scale Deployment of Smart TV Operating Systems
Samsung
LG
Sony
Vizio
Panasonic
Creation and Implementation of HDR Static LUT, Single-Stream Live Production
BBC
NBC
Pioneering Technologies Enabling High Performance Communications Over Cable TV Systems
Broadcom
General Instrument (CommScope)
LANcity (CommScope)
3COM (HP)
Pioneering Development of Manifest-based Playout for FAST (Free Ad-supported Streaming Television)
Amagi
Pluto TV
Turner
Targeted Ad Messages Delivered Across Paused Media
DirecTV
Pioneering Development of IP Address Geolocation Technologies to Protect Content Rights
MLB
Quova
Development of Stream Switching Technology between Satellite Broadcast and Internet to Improve Signal Reliability
DirecTV
Design and Deployment of Efficient Hardware Video Accelerators for Cloud
Netint
AMD
Google
Meta
Spectrum Auction Design
FCC
Auctionomics
TV Pioneers – Cathode Ray Tubes (CRT)
Karl Ferdinand Braun
Boris Lvovich Rosing
Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton
TV Pioneers – Development of lighting, ventilation, and lens-coating technologies
Hertha Ayrton
Katharine Burr Blodgett