Name: | Steven Sasson |
Occupation: | Engineer |
Gender: | Male |
Birth Day: | July 4, 1950 |
Age: | 70 |
Birth Place: | Brooklyn, United States |
Zodiac Sign: | Cancer |
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Before Fame
He graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in electrical engineering in 1972.
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Steven Sasson invented the first self-contained digital camera at Eastman Kodak in 1975. It weighed 8 pounds (3.6 kg) and had only 100 × 100 resolution (0.01 megapixels). The image was recorded onto a cassette tape and this process took 23 seconds. His camera took images in black-and-white. As he set out on his design project, what he envisioned for the future was a camera without mechanical moving parts (although his device did have moving parts, such as the tape drive).
Sasson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Ragnhild Tomine (Endresen) and John Vincent Sasson. His mother was Norwegian. His 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 (CCD). The resulting camera invention was awarded the U.S. patent number 4,131,919.
On November 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Sasson the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a ceremony in the East Room of the White House. This is the highest honor awarded by the US government to scientists, engineers, and inventors. On September 6, 2012 The Royal Photographic Society awarded Sasson its Progress Medal and Honorary Fellowship “in recognition of any invention, research, publication or other contribution that has resulted in an important advance in the scientific or technological development of photography or imaging in the widest sense.”
Sasson was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Currently, Steven Sasson is 71 years, 2 months and 18 days old. Steven Sasson will celebrate 72nd birthday on a Monday 4th of July 2022.
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