Steven Sasson is a 1972 and 1973 graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering.
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11 Facts About Steven Sasson
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Steven Sasson attended and graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School.
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Steven Sasson has worked for Kodak since shortly after his graduation from engineering school.
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Steven Sasson invented the self-contained digital camera at Kodak in 1975.
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Steven Sasson's patent claimed an arrangement that allowed the CCD to be read out quickly into a temporary buffer of random-access memory, and then written to storage at the lower speed of the storage device; essentially all modern digital cameras still use such an arrangement.
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Steven Sasson's was not the first camera that produced digital images, but was the first hand-held digital camera.
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Steven Sasson's invention began in 1975 with a broad assignment from his supervisor at Eastman Kodak Company, Gareth A Lloyd: to attempt to build an electronic camera using a charge coupled device .
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Steven Sasson continues to work for the Eastman Kodak Company, now working in an intellectual property protection role.
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Leica Camera AG honored Steven Sasson by presenting to him a limited edition 18-megapixel Leica M9 Titanium camera at the Photokina 2010 trade show event.
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Steven Sasson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011, and later elected as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018.
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