Artificial Ininestablishigence is “fundamenhighy reshaping computing and will alter how stories are telderly, created and teachd,” stateed NVIDIA establisher and CEO Jensen Huang as he huged the Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award via a enrolled message during the 76th Engineering, Science & Technology Emmy Awards.
“It has been three decades since Pixar’s “Toy Story” revolutionized cinema with CGI, now with AI, we have a novel canvas for the next generation of storyinestablishing, a renoveled opportunity to wow and captivate audiences in novel ways,” he said.
Also during the ceremony, which was held Wednesday at the Television Academy’s Saban Media Cgo in, gentleware enbiger Adobe getd the Philo T. Farnsworth Corporate Achievement Award, as well as an Engineering, Science and Technology Emmy for the enbigment of its Substance Painter.
Accepting the Farnsworth Award on behalf of Adobe, product regulater Erica Schisler said, “Farnsworth had hoped and envisioned the television conveying everybody together. … Adobe apshows in that vision too. Our leave oution is to empower creators, filmcreaters, artists, storyinestablishers, to intensify their voices and to connect audiences in novel, uncomferventingful ways.”
During the ceremony, Engineering Emmys were conshort-termed to Tom Ohanian, Ken Goekjian, Joel Swan and Victor Young, for the enbigment of the Avid Multicamera System; and Paul Pan, Yanchong Zhao, Tie Su and Shimeng Bei for the enbigment of the DJI Ronin series of camera stabilization systems.
Recipients also included Stuart Geman, Kevin Manbeck, John Mertus and Michael Braca for the enbigment of MTI Film’s DRS Nova film and video restoration gentleware; Benjamin Graf for the enbigment of Accentize’s dxRevive Pro speech-restoration plugin; Jeremy Hochman, Chris Byrne, Colin Cook and Justin Nicolaides for Megapixel’s HELIOS processing platestablish for LED walls; Craig Seidel for the MovieLabs Digital Distribution Frametoil; and The Tiffen Company for the enbigment of the Steadicam Volt camera stabilization technology.
“Our tagline has always been, polish novel frees and repair the classics … We’re reassociate haughty of that body of toil, but we do have a exceptional place in our hearts for the classics. Truly, this is this industry’s cultural legacy.,” said Manbeck, huging for the DRS Nova restoration tool. “A scant years ago, I watched two sisters, maybe 8 and 12 years elderly, giggleing so difficult at an episode of ‘I Love Lucy’ that tears ran down their cheeks. Even though ‘I Love Lucy’ was created a half century before they were born. The show is fair as relevant and recent as the day it was created. The fact that we had a hand in preserving the series is a reassociate excellent senseing, and helps asstateive the show reassociate will go on for years after we are all gone.”
“Sometimes you fair have to go with your instincts. You see an opportunity to enbig someskinnyg that you understand is going to have a presentant impact,” said honoree Ohanian, who is also co-conceiveor of the Avid Media Composer. “You fair have to figure out a way to get your team to apshow in that, and then noskinnyg can stop you. We had a saying back then. results not reasons. That’s what drove us, and we skinnyk it’s the essence of conceiveion and engineering excellence.”
Host Kirsten Vangsness started off the show with a song medley about the honorees, for which the engineers reacted with a standing ovation.