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Engadget (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If there's one thing we know about geeks, it's that they hate having nothing to do . Bill Gates has filled his spare time collecting knighthoods and Harvard degrees , and Steve Sasson -- inventor of the first, and assuredly biggest, digital camera -- is now following in his distinguished footsteps. Sasson perfected a microwave oven-sized 0.01 megapixel prototype while working...
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Hostpundit - Hosting and Gadgets (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
If there’s one thing we know about geeks, it’s that they hate having nothing to do. Bill Gates has filled his spare time collecting knighthoods and Harvard degrees, and Steve Sasson — inventor of the first, and assuredly biggest, digital camera — is now following in his distinguished footsteps. Sasson perfected a microwave oven-sized 0.01 [...]
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DailyFun4u (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
... Car (1938): Buick Y-Job World’s First Digital Camera (1975): Created by Kodak's engineer Steve Sasson World's First Album Cover (1938): Smash Song Hits by Rodgers and Hart World's First Microprocessor (1971): Intel 4004
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
As a young Kodak employee, Steve Sasson invented the digital camera. Kodak’s failure to commercialise it makes it a bittersweet success, writesRICHARD GILLIS
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Tech Suave (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
One of the big myths of digital photography is that film/camera behemoth Eastman Kodak Company is slowly being pushed out of the film business by digital technology. In truth, if you look at history, Kodak has been a driving force behind the scenes of digital imaging for decades, dating way before Steve Sasson’s first digital [...]
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PhotoTopix Photography Forum (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Image: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0910/Sasson/stevesasson1.jpg Steve Sasson, the man credited with inventing the first digital camera, has been...
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Click World News (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Steve Sasson, the man credited with inventing the first digital camera, has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Rochester for his work. Sasson developed the first prototype, with a resolution of 0.01 megapixels, in 1975 while working at Kodak and received a patent for it in 1978. Although the diagrams included in the original patent won't look too familiar,...
