Thursday, February 23, 2006
Canadian Inventor of CCD Wins Prestigious Engineering Award
Posted by Jason Dunn in "NEWS" @ 05:00 PM
"Willard Boyle, a Canadian scientist who helped invent a light-sensitive chip, accepted a prestigious engineering award in the U.S. on Tuesday. Boyle and George Smith will share the $500,000 US award for the invention of the "Charge-Coupled Device (CCD), a light-sensitive component at the heart of digital cameras and other widely used imaging technologies," the U.S. National Academy of Engineering said. Some of the best-known applications of the invention are in consumer electronics, such as digital cameras, video cameras, and scanners."
Every time you take a photo with your digital camera, hum a little O Canada eh? :lol:
Every time you take a photo with your digital camera, hum a little O Canada eh? :lol:
