Mike Nilsson
Mike joined BT’s Visual Telecommunications Division in 1988 working on H.320 video conferencing systems. He has represented BT in ITU-T and MPEG video compression standardisation meetings, contributing to the development of H.263 and H.264, as well as MPEG 1, 2 and 4.
Mike has been the editor of ITU-T Recommendation H.245, the multimedia control protocol used in H.323 and H.324, since its beginning in 1994; and in 1996 he represented the ATM Forum as an ambassador on the topic of video transmission over ATM.
Mike was a major contributor to BT’s Fastnets world leading streaming technology for mobile networks, which has been recognised by winning BT’s Sir Alan Rudge medal for innovation in 2002, and the Telecommunications category of the IEE Innovation in Engineering Awards in 2005.
He led the development of BT’s software implementation of the Advanced Video Coding Standard, and supported the licensing of this to a number of major customers.
He is currently working in the Broadband Applications Research Centre in BT Research and Venturing, on video compression and streaming, and the provision of video services over heterogeneous networks.
Mike is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the IET
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