The MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 cases described above demonstrate the power of standards as communication enablers. But what is a standard? Even today, there is so much confusion around this word...
Johannes Gutenberg had the great idea of developing a system to print books using movable characters. He had not just the idea, which had been floating around for a long...
It used to be difficult to make a person outside the group understand that MPEG was not in the business of running beauty contests, i.e. of choosing one or a...
Starting from the “marginal” idea of compressing digital video to fit it in the low throughput of 1.4 Mbit/s of a CD, MPEG had to develop newer areas of expertise...
A free translation of the fake Latin proverb “Homo homini lupus, femina feminae lupior, sacerdos sacerdoti lupissimus” could go like this: man behaves like a wolf toward another man, a...