Source: http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/29/digital-camera-inventor-steve-sasson-collects-honorary-phd-econ/
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 for Kodak way back in 1975, and has now been awarded an honorary PhD for his troubles from the University of Rochester. The man, the geek, and the legend (all the same person) will be in London later today receiving further recognition, in the form of
The Economist's Innovation Award, which commends the "seismic disruption" his invention caused in the field of consumer photography. Funny, nobody gives
us any awards for being disruptive.
Read - University of Rochester honorary doctorate
Read - The Economist Innovation Award
Filed under: Digital Cameras
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