Who “decides” in MPEG?

If MPEG were a typical company, the answer to this question would be simple. Persons in charge of different levels of the organisation “decide”. But MPEG is not a company…

Continue Reading Who “decides” in MPEG?

MPEG and JPEG are grown up

Introduction A group of MPEG and JPEG members have developed a proposal seek to leverage the impact MPEG and JPEG standards have had on thousands of companies and billions of…

Continue Reading MPEG and JPEG are grown up

The talents, MPEG and the master

Introduction In the parable of the Talents the Gospel tells the story of a master who entrusts 5 talents (a large amount of money at that time) to one servant…

Continue Reading The talents, MPEG and the master

The MPEG frontier

Introduction MPEG has developed standards in many areas. One the latest is compression of DNA reads from high-speed sequencing machines and is now working on Compression of Neural Networks for…

Continue Reading The MPEG frontier

The Mule, Foundation and MPEG

What do the three entities of the title have to do together? The second entity is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy,  the tale of an organisation, actually more than one, established…

Continue Reading The Mule, Foundation and MPEG