Akamai Wins Emmy® Award
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recognizes Akamai with Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award for Content Delivery Networks
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Akamai (NASDAQ: AKAM), the intelligent edge platform for securing and delivering digital experiences, today announced the Company will receive a Technology & Engineering Emmy
® Award from the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS). The award recognizes Akamai for excellence in engineering creativity for its work on Content Delivery Networks (CDN). Akamai, which pioneered the CDN 20 years ago as a means to address the then-emerging challenge of congestion on the internet, is the sole honoree in the category.
Second Emmy Award in Six Years: Another Milestone for SSIMWAVE Team
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For the second time in six years, an Emmy® Award for groundbreaking work in television video quality will come to the SSIMWAVE® team. SSIMWAVE is being honored with a Technology & Engineering Emmy® Award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for work in Development of Perceptual Metrics for Video Encoding Optimization.
SSIMWAVE wind second Emmy Award
“In just the few years since Dr. Wang was awarded an Emmy Award for SSIM, the team behind SSIMPLUS and now our Video Quality Dial has significantly advanced the science of video quality measurement, and encoding optimization,” said Dr. Abdul Rehman.
Emmy-winning TV host Larry King has died. He was 87 years old. His official Twitter account posted an announcement of his death on Saturday morning. “With profound sadness, Ora Media announces the death of our co-founder, host and friend Larry King, who passed away this morning at age 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los
Remembering those who died in 2020, from Ruth Bader Ginsburg and B. Smith to Chadwick Boseman and Eddie Van Halen
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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2018, file photo, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg leaves the stage after speaking to first-year students at Georgetown Law in Washington. Ginsburg died of metastatic pancreatic cancer at age 87. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)AP
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By BERNARD McGHEE, The Associated Press
In a year defined by a devastating pandemic, the world lost iconic defenders of civil rights, great athletes and entertainers who helped define their genres.
Many of their names hold a prominent place in the collective consciousness RBG, Kobe, Maradona, Eddie Van Halen, Little Richard, Sean Connery, Alex Trebek, Christo but pandemic restrictions often limited the public’s ability to mourn their loss in a year that saw more than a million people die from the coronavirus.