About the Technical Reviewer

Cliff Wootton is a former Interactive TV systems architect at BBC News.

The “News Loops” service developed there was nominated for a BAFTA and won a Royal Television Society Award for Technical Innovation. He is an invited speaker on pre-processing for video compression at the Apple WWDC conference. He also taught postgraduate MA students about real-world computing, multimedia, video compression, metadata, and researching the deployment of next-generation interactive TV systems based on open standards.

He is currently working on R&D projects investigating new interactive TV technologies, involved with MPEG standards working groups, writing more books on the topic, and speaking at conferences when not lecturing on multimedia at the University of the Arts in London.