Steven Sasson
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Steven J. Sasson is an American electrical engineer and the inventor of the digital camera
. Sasson is a 1972 (BS) and 1973 (MS) graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
in electrical engineering.
Company, Gareth A. Lloyd: to attempt to build an electronic camera a using a charge coupled device (CCD).
The resulting camera invention was awarded .
Sasson now works to protect the intellectual capital
of his employer, Eastman Kodak Company.
On November 17, 2010, US President Barack Obama
awarded Sasson the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony in the East Room
of the White House
. This is the highest honor awarded by the US government to scientists, engineers, and inventors.
Digital camera
A digital camera is a camera that takes video or still photographs, or both, digitally by recording images via an electronic image sensor. It is the main device used in the field of digital photography...
. Sasson is a 1972 (BS) and 1973 (MS) graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
in electrical engineering.
Biography
His invention began in 1975 with a broad assignment from his supervisor at Eastman KodakEastman Kodak
Eastman Kodak Company is a multinational imaging and photographic equipment, materials and services company headquarted in Rochester, New York, United States. It was founded by George Eastman in 1892....
Company, Gareth A. Lloyd: to attempt to build an electronic camera a using a charge coupled device (CCD).
The resulting camera invention was awarded .
Sasson now works to protect the intellectual capital
Intellectual capital
The value of an enterprise is made of physical assets, various financial assets and, finally, intangible assets, i.e., intellectual capital . The term intellectual capital conventionally refers to the difference in value between tangible assets and market value. ....
of his employer, Eastman Kodak Company.
On November 17, 2010, US President Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
awarded Sasson the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony in the East Room
East Room
The East Room is the largest room in the White House, the home of the president of the United States. It is used for entertaining, press conferences, ceremonies, and occasionally for a large dinner...
of the White House
White House
The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
. This is the highest honor awarded by the US government to scientists, engineers, and inventors.
External links
- History of digital camera
- Digital camera turns 30 – sort of
- Kodak engineer's revolutionary idea
- Kodak milks silver film, ignores its own digital camera
- Purple Medical Blog:People said digital photography would never happen
- Viva la resolution
- Image of first digital camera – Larger version of the image available under the History of the digital camera page.