In 1973, Steve Sasson, 23 and fresh out of college, landed a job at Eastman Kodak in the apparatus division of the company’s Applied Research Department.
Soon he was assigned a seemingly routine task — to investigate the possibility of any practical use for a charged coupled device (C.C.D.).
Two years later, Sasson remarkably completed the protype for what would be the first self-contained, portable digital camera.
Sasson will deliver the 76th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Bill Buell wrote a column for the Daily Gazette in advance of the talk.
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