The ITU 150 Award was presented to Mark Krivosheev, the member of the Board of Trustees of St.Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

ITU (International Telecommunication Union) is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies, celebrated its 150th anniversary on 17 May, marking a long and illustrious history at the cutting edge of communication technologies.

The ITU 150 Awards were presented to eminent laureates who have contributed to ITU’s work: Martin Cooper, Robert E. Kahn, Mark I. Krivocheev, Ken Sakamura, and Thomas Wiegand. Bill Gates was given special recognition for his contributions and his ongoing work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Mark Krivocheev is best known for his pioneering work in forging a world television digital standard and for HDTV standards, which have made it possible for us to receive high quality sound and picture in our homes.

Mark I. Krivocheev – ITU 150 Award

Mark I. Krivocheev was born in the USSR on 30 July 1922. He graduated from the Moscow telecommunications Institute in 1946. In 1966, he became Doctor of Technical Sciences and in 1968, he was awarded the rank of Professor. In 1992, he became a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. Mark I. Krivocheev is best known outside Russia for his work in the International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR) of the International Telecommunication Union. In 1970 he became Vice–Chairman of CCIR Study Group 11 (Television) and in 1974 he was elected Chairman. His function was to coordinate studies in television broadcasting. The proposal for a world television digital standard (Recommendation 601) earned ITU-R the Emmy Engineering Award. Other recent texts of prime importance adopted by the ITU-R are Basic parameter values for the HDTV standard for the studio and for international programme exchange (Recommendation 709); Method for the subjective assessment of the quality of television pictures, etc. in high–definition television (Recommendations 500–4 and 710). He has received many government awards and the USSR State Prize. In 2007, he was named laureate of the ITU World Telecommunication and Information Society Award. The Montreux Symposium gave him its Gold Medal in 1987, and the EBU awarded him a certificate on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the CCIR in 1988. In 1990, following the adoption of CCIR Recommendations on HDTV, his achievements were praised around the world: NANBA awarded him a special plaque, the Australian Department of Communications and Broadcasting awarded him a certificate, and France has made him a Chevalier de l’Ordre National de Mérite.

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