Digimarc’s Dom Guinard Receives AIM Global’s Clive Hohberger Technology Award
November 02 2023 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
Recognized for Driving Innovation and Industry
Standards in Product Digitization and the IoT
Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq: DMRC), the leader in product
digitization and pioneer in digital watermarking, announced today
that the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM
Global) has recognized Dominique (Dom) Guinard, Vice President of
Innovation, with the Clive Hohberger Technology Award.
Created in 2018 to honor the lifetime contribution of prolific
inventor Dr. Clive Hohberger, the award recognizes outstanding
scientists, engineers, software developers, and systems integrators
for significant contributions that have advanced the growth of new
technological developments in the Automatic Identification and Data
Capture (AIDC) industry. AIDC technologies include digital
watermarks, 1D and 2D barcodes, QR codes, RFID, NFC, optical
character recognition, smart cards, biometrics, and more.
Digimarc’s Dom Guinard is a part of the innovation labs
leadership team, creating new technologies and contributing to
global standards that address the world’s biggest challenges
including, protecting content creators and owners in an era of
generative AI, the fight to end plastic pollution, deterring
counterfeiting, and more. Relevant to the recent Executive Order
for the safe, secure, and trustworthy use of artificial
intelligence, Digimarc is promoting standards and contributing
tools including digital watermarks that can create an enduring
tether between a digital asset’s correct and unaltered manifest or
metadata – critical to protecting content creators and
consumers.
“We are thrilled to celebrate Dom as a recipient of AIM Global’s
prestigious Clive Hohberger Technology award,” said Tony Rodriguez,
Digimarc’s Chief Technology Officer. “We are at an exciting
inflection point in the industry where Dom’s pioneering work in IoT
and global standards and Digimarc’s leadership in product
digitization and digital watermarking technology are helping to
promote a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable world.”
Dom began his work on the Internet of Things (IoT) with Sun
Microsystems and SAP Research working with RFID applications and
continued this work through his doctorate at the AutoID labs of ETH
Zurich and MIT, leading to the development of the first Web of
Things architecture. Dom is ranked among the 10 most influential
IoT experts and holds several patents in IoT and tagging
technologies. In 2011, Dom co-founded EVRYTHNG to connect every
physical thing to the web with a digital identity, giving the
world’s consumer goods companies a way to apply real-time product
data to inform business strategies while connecting directly with
consumers through digitized products. EVRYTHNG was acquired by
Digimarc in January 2022. Dom firmly believes in the power of
standards: his research helped launch the Web of Things at W3C, he
co-chaired development of the GS1 Digital Link standard, and he led
development of the EPCIS 2.0 standard Web API. Currently, Dom is
contributing to work on Digital Product Passports with the GS1
Circularity Working Group and Content Credentials with the
Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA).
About Digimarc
Digimarc Corporation (NASDAQ: DMRC) is a global leader in
product digitization. A pioneer in digital watermarks, Digimarc
connects every physical and digital item to a digital twin that
enables the capture of product data, records events and
interactions, and supports powerful new automations. Trusted to
deter counterfeiting of global currency for more than 20 years,
Digimarc is also recognized for ensuring product authenticity,
improving plastics recycling, and more, with a commitment to
promoting a prosperous, safer, and more sustainable world. In 2023,
Digimarc was named to the Fortune 2023 Change the World list and
honored as a 2023 Fast Company World Changing Ideas finalist. See
more at Digimarc.com.
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