The Inventor Of The Pixel Passes Away At The Age Of 91
When we browse through our favorite pictures on a modern display, we stare at millions of tiny illuminated areas on the computer screen. These minute illuminated areas on a display are what we call “pixels”. And the inventor of this revolutionary technology recently passed away. So, in the year 1957, to answer his own wonderment of “what would happen if computers could see the world the way we do?”, he was working on a drum scanner at the NBS (now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology)....