Adrian Ettlinger (January 26, 1925 – October 23, 2013[1]) was an American electrical engineer and software developer and a pioneer in television and video technology.
Ettlinger was born on January 26, 1925, and studied Electrical Engineering at Purdue University, graduating in 1944.
This system received an Emmy award in 1986, was widely used in both television and film productions, and was important to the broadening acceptance and use of non-linear video editing.
[12][13] Ettlinger was the 1976 recipient of the David Sarnoff Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers.
He was given the award ”[f]or his important contributions to the application of computers to on-air television station switching control, for conceiving of the application of video disc stop-action systems to sports broadcasts, and for contributions to computer control of studio lighting systems and videotape editing systems.”[6] In 1996 Videography magazine, in its 20th anniversary publication The Age of Videography, named Ettlinger as one of the 18, then-living, "People Who Made a Difference" in video production technology, calling him "[t]he father of modern video post [production].
Another earlier activity was running as the Democratic candidate for mayor of Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, in 1971, advocating for a local fair housing ordinance.