The Moving Picture Experts Group is to hold MPEG 100 to celebrate ‘close to a quarter of a century of intense activity that has seen thousands of digital media experts from tens of countries and hundreds of companies working collaboratively to advance the frontiers of technology’.
The event will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from 30 April to 4 May 2012. Additionally, MPEG’s 100th meeting will be held on 2 May.
The MPEG committee is behind the development of MP3, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and a host of other standards that play a major role in modern media management and distribution. The MPEG 100 event will be attended by top-ranking officials from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Committee (IEC), the organizations co-sponsoring the Joint ISO/IEC Technical Committee (JTC 1) on Information Technology under which MPEG operates, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) with which MPEG has developed two video compression standards and is currently developing the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard, and the World Intellectual Property Organization.
The event is being regarded as an important opportunity to confirm the close cooperation between the international organisations involved in charting the future of digital media.
