[BIC-announce] Fwd: Academy award for Mark Wolforth, former student in the BIC

[G. Bruce Pike, Prof.]

I'm sure many of you know Mark - congratulations to him!

Bruce

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Date: January 19, 2010 8:54:43 AM EST
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Subject: Academy award for Mark Wolforth, former student in the BIC

FYI from today’s news clips.

A LONG TIME COMING
Unlike most Academy Award winners, Kingston's Mark Wolforth wasn't terribly surprised when he was told he had won one. Wolforth was told last week that he had garnered a technical achievement award from the prestigious film body. "They've been looking into (my work) for two years now, and it's for work I did about six years ago," the electrical engineer said from his Kingston home. "It's like getting the Academy Award for most obsolete product." Wolforth called his product -- which, as the academy describes it, "enables accurate colour presentation in the digital intermediate preview process" -- obsolete because it is now incorporated into many of today's digital projectors. Wolforth said he got into the film business by accident. The Montreal native had done his master's degree in biomedical engineering at McGill University (1994), not film studies. "(My biomedical engineering focus) was imaging stuff, which is what got me into this kind of thing because the biomed stuff I did was all image manipulation -- stuff directly related to deal with large data sets of images," Wolforth said. "You wouldn't think it, but there is some commonality."
Kingston Whig Standard
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2266721


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