Hi, Jonathan— This is a great standards story that I didn’t know about. How interesting that JPEG is a joint committee of ISO<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>/IEC<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Electrotechnical_Commission> JTC 1<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_JTC_1> (already a joint committee itself) and ITU-T (then CCITT)! Thanks for sharing! JoAnne From: Members <members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org> On Behalf Of Jonathan Coopersmith via Members Sent: Saturday, September 6, 2025 9:32 AM To: SIGCIS <members@sigcis.org> Subject: [SIGCIS-Members] JPEG history And another example of reaching out to a wider community: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jpeg-image-format-history Stay sane, Jonathan Jonathan Coopersmith Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science Professor Emeritus Department of History Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843-4236 979.739.4708 (cell) with Arthur Daemmrich, “The Road Not (Yet) Taken. Historians As Policy Professionals,” AHA Perspectives May 2025, 18-20. "'What Were We Thinking?' Space Commercialization, 1960-1990," in Brian C. Odom, ed., The Rise of the Commercial Space Industry. Early Space Age to Present (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).