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István Sebestyén #

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Sebestyén. Photo:Private archive
Dr. István Sebestyén is retired Secretary General of Ecma International, an international ICT standardization organization located in Geneva, Switzerland. Currently he is still Secretary of the Ecma TC39 Committee (ECMAscript/JavaScript) standardization.

He has joined Ecma in 2006 from Siemens AG in Munich, Germany, where he has been involved in ICT Standardization since 1985 and served as Director of Standards in the area of Multimedia Communication, Private Networks and Telecommunication Terminals.

As such he was founding and contributing member of the original joint CCITT (ITU) and ISO TC97/SC2/WG8 Experts Group on Still Images called JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group), between 1987-2000 Special Rapporteur in CCITT SGVIII on New Image Communication and later as Rapporteur in ITU-T SG8 on Common Components for Image Communication. As such he was responsible for the ITU-T T.80 and T.800 Series of Recommendations, including the well-known JPEG, JPEG2000, JBIG Recommendations/standards. From 2004-2006 he was Vice Chairman of ITU-T SG16 (Multimedia) and from 2001-2006 President of IMTC (International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium).

While at Siemens he was for 20 years also university tutor at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria on subjects like Office Automation, New Media, Informatics, Telematics, Data Communication, Telecommunication Services and Applications.

Before joining Siemens Dr. Sebestyén was between 1978 and 1984 Research Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria, and from 1983-1985 he was Visiting Professor at the Technical University of Graz where he worked on videotex like system (a forerunner of the Internet and the WWW).

Special fields at IIASA: interdisciplinary studies of new information and telecommunication technologies and impacts thereof, international telecommunication and transborder data flow policy issues. He was participant in the IIASA Gateway Project, the first international computer network connections between East and West used for exchange of scientific information (1978-1982).

István Sebestyén received his Ph.D. (Dr. Ing.) in electrical engineering from the Technical University in Budapest (Hungary), and also holds a Dipl. Ing. (BA+ MS) from the same university.

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