October/November 2015 Digital Edition
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gSN <strong>October</strong>/<strong>November</strong> <strong>Digital</strong> edition<br />
table of contents<br />
GSN TECHNOLOGY SPOTLIGHT<br />
Under the leadership of CEO Mark Hatten, privately held Mutualink, Inc.<br />
has been awarded the SAFETY Act Designation and Certification from<br />
DHS and is now designated as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology<br />
(QUATT). The company’s interoperable communications platform enables<br />
community-wide sharing of push to talk radio, voice, text, video,<br />
data files and telecommunications in a secure environment. Mutualink<br />
is the only multi-media interoperable communications product certified<br />
under the SAFETY Act. Its products are deployed by hundreds of public<br />
and private entities worldwide, including homeland security and defense<br />
installations. A hands-on demonstration will take place on <strong>November</strong> 3-4<br />
in Alexandria, VA. Read more on Page 6.<br />
Al Bovic, Engineering Chair at the University of Texas, has received an<br />
EMMY for inventing a tool that allows broadcasters and streaming video<br />
sites to compress and distribute video with minimum distortion. Two of<br />
Bovic’s former students, Zhou Wang and Hamed Sheikh and collaborator<br />
NYU University Professor Eero Simonelli were also honored. Their<br />
“SSIM Index” has become a de facto standard in television broadcasting<br />
and has been widely commercialized, and is part of the global ITU standard<br />
H.264 video coding reference software. Read more on Page 27.<br />
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