Steven J. Sasson (b. 1950) is an electrical engineer and the inventor of the digital camera. His invention began in 1975 with a very broad assignment from his supervisor at Eastman Kodak Company, Gareth A. Lloyd: Could a camera be built using solid state electronics, solid state imagers, an electronic sensor known as a charge coupled device (CCD) that gathers optical information? Texas Instruments Inc. Wikipedia
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AP Steven Sasson holds the prototype digital camera he built in 1975 at the Eastman Kodak Co. headquarters in Rochester, N.Y. It recorded a black-and-white image on a digital cassette tape. seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/240048_firstdigital09.html
In December, 1975, Steven Sasson, a young engineer in Kodaks R&D labs, prototyped the first digital camera. www.biz-architect.com/kodaks_missed_moments.htm
It was also used in the world's first known operational electronic CCD still image camera which was constructed by Steve Sasson of Kodak (see below). www.digicamhistory.com/1970s.html
The definitive Wikipedia entry for Steven Sasson. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson
It would be a quarter century, though, before Kodak began to capitalize on Sasson's breakthrough: the first digital camera. www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9261340/
