Cliff Wootton

Cliff Wootton is a former Interactive TV systems architect at the BBC. The "Interactive News Loops" service developed there was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. He has previously served as an invited guest speaker on preprocessing for video compression at the Apple WWDC developer conference in San Francisco, and a is former speaker on Interactive TV systems at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. Cliff...See more

Cliff Wootton is a former Interactive TV systems architect at the BBC. The "Interactive News Loops" service developed there was nominated for a BAFTA award, and won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. He has previously served as an invited guest speaker on preprocessing for video compression at the Apple WWDC developer conference in San Francisco, and a is former speaker on Interactive TV systems at the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas. Cliff has taught post graduate MA students about real-world computing, multimedia, video compression, metadata, and how to leverage artistic creativity through the use of engineering and developer tools to build art installations. Current project work includes advanced web-based user interface development technologies, ePublishing tools, web-to-print systems, and working as a consultant engineer on R&D projects studying the deployment of next generation interactive TV systems based on open standards. Pro-bono work includes MPEG, ePublishing metadata and Cloud storage standards working groups. See less