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George Auckland is a UK television and digital media executive, now retired after a long career at the BBC. During his time as a BBC executive he worked on some of the key educational landmarks in British interactive media including the BBC Micro computer and the BBC Networking Club. He also set up the BBC's first web production unit which was responsible for award winning websites such as Teletubbies, Bitesize, and produced many of the BBC's early TV programmes about home computing and the Internet. Auckland graduated from Durham University with a Degree in Applied Physics in 1969 he then joined the BBC as a trainee Film Editor in October that year. He became a TV producer and worked on many programmes from ''Blue Peter'' to a whole range of award-winning adult education programmes including Johnny Ball's ''Think of a Number''. In December 1989 he received a Royal Television Society award for ''Take Nobody's Word For It'' (Vermeer episode) with Hendrik Ball, the award was in the 'adult/continuing education general audience (1988)' category. In spring 1996 Auckland helped create the BBC Education Website, and in 1999 became head of a new department: Digital Media, which won the Royal Television Society, Educational Television, 1999 Judge's Award in (received in 2000) for BBC Education Online.〔The Judges' Award, (RTS Educational Television Awards, 2000 )〕 He ran the Innovations Unit within (BBC Learning ) (formerly BBC Interactive Factual and Learning) until March 31, 2011 when he retired from the BBC after 41 and a half years of service. In 2007 he received the 2006 RTS Lifetime Achievement Award〔Lifetime Achievement Award (RTS Education Awards, 2007 )〕 at the RTS Educational Awards. In 2015 George was awarded the President of NHK Prize 〔President of NHK Prize (2015 )〕 for his ''outstanding contributions to lifelong learning both through TV and Online''. == The Domesday Project == Auckland worked on Domesday Reloaded from 1 March 2011 to 31 March 2012. This is a project which is involved with the preservation and conversion of the Domesday Project. He has given talks about this in the past and the many copyright issues at the Computer Conservation Society.〔Computer Conservation Society (The BBC Domesday Book Project and its Legacy,2009 ) (Retrieved April 12th, 2011)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「George Auckland」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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