Brief bio files
Here are brief bios, in several formats.
75‑word, web (html) format:
Charles Poynton is an independent researcher and image/colour scientist based in Toronto. He wrote the book Digital Video and HD Algorithms and Interfaces, now in its second edition. Thirty five years ago, he chose 1080 image rows for HD standards, by which “square pixels” were established for HD and digital cinema. He earned his PhD in 2018 from Simon Fraser University with a dissertation entitled Colour Appearance Issues in Digital Video, HD/UHD, and D‑cinema. He is a Fellow of SMPTE, Colorist Society (CSI), and IMIS (formerly BKSTS).
75‑word, unicode-text-only: Display in Safari on iPhone and iPad may display “mojibake” (scrambled characters) instead of typographical quotes; this is a Safari problem, the file itself is proper UTF‑8.
75‑word, rich text (rtf) format