Professional organisations and
governments from several countries have awarded Leonardo a recognition of
his achievements
Organisation |
Co. |
Date |
Award |
| Académies des technologies | FR | 2008/04 | Membre |
| NAB | US | 2003/04 | Award of Honor For leadership in the development of international technical standards facilitating worldwide deployment of digital broadcast services |
| Ordre des arts et des lettres | FR | 2003/02 | Chevalier |
| SMPTE | US | 2002/10 | James Leitch Gold Medal Award In recognition of his substantial contributions and pioneering work in digital television |
| EURASIP | CH | 2002/09 | Meritorious Service Award |
| Instituto Superior Técnico | PT | 2001/06 | Doctorate "honoris causa" |
| Eduard-Rhein Foundation | DE | 1999/10 | Award For stimulating and pushing forward the MPEG standard for coding of moving pictures and associated audio, especially the worldwide acknowledged digital TV standard MPEG-2 |
| IBC | UK | 1999/09 | John Tucker Award In recognition of his outstanding leadership and unstinting personal contribution to the audio-visual media industry |
| IEEE | US | 1999/06 | Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award For technical leadership in the development of the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) international standard for motion video and audio |
| Kilby Foundation | US | 1998/10 | Award Italian visionary, technology entrepreneur, world telecommunications leader who is known as the "Father of MPEG," Moving Pictures Expert Group, which established standards for digitizing and compressing audio and video thus creating the path for worldwide use of HDTV. |
| Society of Photo-Optical and Instrumentation Engineers | US | 1998/01 | Award For his leadership, personal contributions, and most importantly his vision in the field of electronic imaging and multimedia technologies. He is being recognised for his outstanding service to the field of multimedia as "Convener" of the international MPEG organization. Under his leadership, the entire MPEG organization and its individual participants continue to make invaluable contributions to the multimedia technologies |
| International Institute of Communications | IT | 1997/10 | Award Per aver contribuito in modo fondamentalealla tempestiva creazione di uno standard (MPEG) per la codifica del segnale audiovisivo informa numerica unico fra tutte le nazioni ed utilizzabile, senza confini per lo scambio delle informazioni, da parte del mondo informatico, televisivo e delle telecomunicazioni, creando allo scopo un gruppo internazionale in seno all'ISO attualmente da lui presieduto. |
| Institute of Electrical Engineers | UK | 1997/10 | J. J. Thompson Award |
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