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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is a great standards story that I didn’t know about. How interesting that JPEG is a joint committee of
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization" title="International Organization for Standardization">
<span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">ISO</span></a>/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission" title="International Electrotechnical Commission"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">IEC</span></a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1" title="ISO/IEC JTC 1"><span style="color:windowtext;text-decoration:none">JTC 1</span></a> (already a joint committee itself) and ITU-T (then CCITT)! Thanks for sharing!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">JoAnne<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Jonathan Coopersmith via Members<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 6, 2025 9:32 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> SIGCIS <members@sigcis.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [SIGCIS-Members] JPEG history<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">And another example of reaching out to a wider community: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history"><span style="color:#467886">https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history</span></a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Jonathan Coopersmith</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Texas A&M University</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals<i>,” AHA Perspectives</i> May 2025, 18-20.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">"'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed.,
<i>The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present</i> (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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