John Warnock is one of the founding fathers of Adobe. John is also the inventor of Postscript, and recipient of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation, one of the highest honors bestowed on scientists, engineers and inventors in the USA. John and Chuck Geschke also were recently awarded the Marconi Prize, considered the highest honor specifically for contributions to information science and communications.

In this video, the first in a series of conversations with leaders in technology, Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch talks to John about innovation and how Adobe encourages it.

From Adobe’s Conversations blog.

NewTeeVee Live invited Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch for a fireside chat yesterday to talk about HTML5 and what Adobe is doing to support HTML5 development as well as talk about recent comments suggesting that Flash is a battery drainer.

“Playing rich content uses more battery than non-rich content whichever technology you use.”

Adobe’s CTO Kevin Lynch just published a blog post with his thoughts on Flash, past and future, Apple iPad, HTML5, OSP and more.

The blog post entitled “Open Access to Content and Applications” gives you a good idea on where Adobe and the Flash Platform is going and what we are doing with our Open Screen Project partners. It also repeats that “we are ready to enable Flash in the browser on Apple’s devices if and when Apple chooses to allow that for its users, but to date we have not had the required cooperation from Apple to make this happen.”

Read the post on blogs.adobe.com/conversations

This is incredibly exciting news and something the community has been asking for since we published the specs for the SWF file format, FLV/F4V, AMF, and the Mobile Content Delivery Protocol. In the first half of this year, Adobe will publish the specification for RTMP (Real Time Messaging Protocol).

Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s CTO, said:

With the RTMP specification, developers and companies will be able to provide users with optimized audio, video and data streaming, no matter what kind of device the user is on or where the content is coming from. Our ongoing commitment to openness is accelerating adoption of the Flash Platform by developers and resulting in a new generation of Web applications, content and video experiences that run reliably across operating systems and devices.

The RTMP specification is expected to be posted on the Adobe Developer Connection (www.adobe.com/devnet/rtmp ) in the first half of 2009.

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If you’re not in Milan for MAX Europe, you actually missed the coolest Cocomo demo ever ;-) Andrew and I created the “Paparazzi Central” Cocomo application where paparazzi can share tips with colleagues and upload photos to share with publishers all over the world. During our demo, paparazzi in Milan were already uploading images to the application… and I thought it was a good idea to share them with you here ;-)

Ben Forta in “Ben In Black”

Enrique Duvos as Austin Powers

Kevin Lynch in the new Harry Potter movie

Andrew Shorten as 007

Richard Galvan and his new girlfriend

Ted Patrick in the future