Carver Mead
DATE & TIME
Tuesday, May 21, 2002
MEMBERS ONLY and VIP Reception: 6:00 PM
Member seating begins: 6:30 PM
General lecture seating begins: 6:50 PM
Lecture: 7:00 PM
Event ends promptly: 9:00 PM
LOCATION
Reception and Lecture:
AMD, Commons Building
991 Stewart
Sunnyvale, California
RESERVATIONS
Free. Advance reservations required.
Please RSVP by May 17, 2002.
Call +1 650 604 2714 for information.
Online Registration is now CLOSED
MEMBERSHIP
Current members of the Computer History Museum have purchased a student
or senior citizen membership at $35.00 or individual membership at $50.00
or more within the last year. To become a member, please go to our
membership page or call +1 650 604 3470.
ABSTRACT OF TALK
Feel like you are not getting a clear picture? Join Carver Mead, Gordon & Betty Moore Professor Emeritus, Caltech, and Chairman, Foveon, Inc., as he takes you through the advances in electronic photography.
The first photographic images were obtained in 1727, but it was not
until 1837 that a repeatable and useable photographic method was developed.
Various schemes were tried over the ensuing century for enabling the
monochrome silver-halide technology to produce color images, culminating in
the introduction of Kodachrome in 1935.
The first electronic images were captured by vacuum tubes, and more recently
by solid-state sensors. Once again, the underlying photosensitive process
was basically monochrome, and the efforts to convert it to a color
technology show striking parallels with the earlier silver-halide approaches. In
2002, Foveon introduced X3, the first electronic full-color technology,
thereby completing the evolution of color-image-sensing.
EVENT REGISTRATION
Free. Advance reservations required. When you RSVP,
please provide the following information:
- Full name
- Professional affiliation
- Mailing address
- Day phone number
- Email address
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