About the Technical Reviewer

Cliff Wootton is a former interactive TV systems architect at BBC News. The News Loops service developed there was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award and won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. Cliff has been a speaker on preprocessing for video compression at the Apple WWDC conference, and he has taught postgraduate students about real-world computing, multimedia, video compression, metadata, and researching the deployment of next-generation interactive TV systems based on open standards. He is currently working on R&D projects investigating new interactive TV technologies, he’s involved with the MPEG standards working groups, and he’s writing more books on the topic.