David Reisner

David Reisner received a 2014 Academy Technical Achievement Award, a 2014 Hollywood Post Alliance Judges Award for Creativity and Innovation, and was recognized by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Prime Time EMMY Engineering Award as a co-designer of the ASC CDL—now used in the workflow of nearly every motion picture, scripted TV, and visual effects turnover. He was the lead designer and co-producer of the ASC-DCI StEM Standard Evaluation Material used to determine the quality required to convert the world’s movie system from film to digital, and vice-chaired the SMPTE Working Groups responsible for digital cinema imaging—showing on nearly all cinema screens worldwide—and security standards—protecting $35 billion of IP each year. He also had leading roles in activities including design and production of the American Society of Cinematographers-Producers Guild of America (ASC-PGA) CAS, the ICAS, and elements of the Academy Color Encoding System. He has been a founder, a partner, and a chief technology officer in computer and in entertainment companies. He helped originate digital audio and his “firsts” include the programmable portable computer, the handheld digital video jukebox, the portable source-level debugger, 57,000-bit very long integer arithmetic, and Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) computer architecture—one of the enablers of modern multiprocessor computing. He provided editorial assistance on the first textbook on neural network artificial intelligence and machine learning, originated pervasive computing—a parent of the Internet of Things (IoT), proposed emergent networking for smart dust, and helped develop the first popular byte-code virtual machine. He has shot celebrity and fashion for books and magazines including Vogue Italia, produced concerts internationally, and trained killer whales. He is well published in books and technical articles, has spoken widely including NAB, SMPTE, International Federation of Cinematographers (IMAGO), and a 29,000-viewer webcast, and on manned space exploration to a standing-room-only crowd at the 2014 International Space Development Conference. He is a member of SMPTE, the founding Secretary of the ASC Motion Imaging Technology Council, an ASC Associate, a Member of the Visual Effects Society, and a coauthor of the “VES Handbook of Visual Effects.” His committees have recommended some of the highest profile Academy Scientific and Technical Awards.