2016.01.25
The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) at Keio Research Institute at SFC was honored with a 2016 Technology & Engineering Emmy Award and attended the ceremony on January 8, held during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA.
The Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, established in the United States in 1948, recognize technological development and innovation in the broadcasting industry. They are presented to companies and organizations that have made significant contributions to the advancement of broadcasting technology. W3C was recognized for its technology that makes video content more accessible by using W3C TTML (Timed Text Markup Language) to structure content by combining subtitles and captions with video.
The W3C is an international consortium where member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop web standards.
It is jointly hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US, the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) in France, Beihang University in China, and Keio University (Keio Research Institute at SFC) in Japan. The consortium currently has over 400 member organizations.
Comment from Jun Murai, Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Information Studies and W3C Representative at Keio Research Institute at SFC
This Emmy Award is given for television programs and the technologies that support them. The fact that TTML, a technology developed as a W3C Recommendation, has received this award symbolizes a new era for television and the internet. TTML is a technology that provides captions and subtitles to help understand the audio portion of dynamically distributed videos, embodying the web's long-held principle at W3C of "sharing information with everyone." When viewing videos on TVs, tablets, or smartphones equipped with a browser, it allows transcribed audio to be displayed simultaneously with the sound, either as is or edited, providing additional information and commentary to viewers who desire it. This technology not only fulfills our wish to convey laughter, sorrow, and emotion to everyone, including viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing and the elderly, but it also contributes to a new, safe, and secure society by enabling the reliable delivery of audio from broadcasts, such as disaster information, on signage in public spaces and commercial facilities. This award has become an opportunity for wider recognition of the W3C's mission to bring the web to everyone. At W3C/Keio, we are working with W3C organizations around the world to ensure the web truly contributes to everyone, such as by incorporating Japanese vertical writing into the HTML5 standard finalized last year.
Source: General Affairs (Public Relations) Section, Shonan Fujisawa Campus (SFC) Office