Microsoft Donates to SMPTE Foundation

White Plains, New York - Microsoft, Inc. Director of Worldwide Media Standards Patrick Griffis used the recent SMPTE conference in New York to announce that Microsoft is granting $100,000 to the SMPTE Foundation.

The SMPTE Foundation was created as a strategic long-range structure to enhance the Society's goals and create a mechanism for raising funds to advance basic SMPTE educational, technological, and standards work in the motion imaging fields.
The Foundation is headed by a select body of directors, and works under its own set of by-laws.

"Microsoft has once again shown how important it is for companies to help SMPTE drive the future of motion imaging technology, and the grant is a wonderful reinforcement for SMPTE to continue the many activities it carries out," says SMPTE Past President John Mason. "It's through the continued support of companies both large and small that gives SMPTE the marvelous opportunity to further coordinate a technology that advances at an amazing pace."

According to SMPTE President Gavin Schutz, "Microsoft has been a benefactor to SMPTE for many years, from sponsoring events at our conferences, to hosting a number of SMPTE's Technology Committees, and we're very happy that Microsoft is continuing to support the Society through the Foundation."

Schutz hopes other corporations will join Microsoft's initiative, especially in light of SMPTE's standards setting activities, which serve to promote and standardize the field, thus giving back to the motion imaging industry.

Schutz also said that the size of Microsoft's contribution should not inhibit other smaller corporations and companies from supporting the Foundation.

"It will take the combined contributions of many companies, at whatever amount, to fully sustain the foundation and its endeavors in advancing the motion imaging industry," he said.

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