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Website of Eric R. Fossum
Born and raised in
Connecticut, he attended public school in Simsbury and spent Saturdays at the
Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon. He received his B.S. in Physics and
Engineering from Trinity College in Hartford and the Ph.D. in Engineering and
Applied Science from Yale University in New Haven. He was a member of
Columbia University’s Electrical Engineering faculty and then joined the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology where he
managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced
development. While at JPL, he invented the intra-pixel charge transfer CMOS
active-pixel-sensor camera-on-a-chip technology and led its development and
subsequent transfer of the technology to US industry. Nearly all the six (6)
billion CMOS cameras made each year use the intra-pixel charge transfer
invention. Dr. Fossum co-founded Photobit
Corporation to commercialize the technology and served in several top management
roles including Chairman and CEO. Photobit was acquired
by Micron Technology Inc. He was Dr. Fossum received the Queen Elizabeth Prize from HRH Prince
Charles, considered by many as the Nobel Prize of Engineering “for the creation of digital imaging
sensors,” along with three others. He received the U.S. National Medal of
Technology and Innovation in a White House ceremony “for inventing
world-changing "camera-on-chip" technology that has turned billions
of phones into cameras and transformed everyday life…and then worked to use
it in medicine, business, security, entertainment, and more.” He was
inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF), elected to the
National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and selected as a Charter Fellow of the
National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Other honors include the National
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Technical Emmy® Award, NASA
Exceptional Achievement Medal, the IEEE Andrew Grove Award and Medal, the OSA
and IS&T Edwin H. Land Medal, the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award and
Medal, the Royal Photographic Society's Progress Medal, the American
Photographic Society’s Progress Medal, the SMPTE Camera Origination and
Imaging Medal, induction in the Space Technology Hall of Fame and the NSF
Presidential Young Investigator Award. Dr. Fossum has published over 340 technical papers and holds 185
US patents. He co-founded the International Image Sensor Society (IISS), was
its first President and Chaired the IISS Board of Directors. He is a Life
Fellow member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
a Fellow member of Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA), and
a member of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE)
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He volunteers for the IISS Governance Advisory Committee, the
NIHF Selection Committee and Selection Board, and the NAE Committee on
Membership. He has served on the Board of Trustees of Trinity College, the
Board of Directors of the National Academy of Inventors, and the Board of
Trustees for the Talcott Mountain Science Center, as an AAAS-Lemelson
Invention Ambassador, on the Leadership Council of the Yale University School
of Engineering and Applied Science, the Peer Selection Committee for the NAE,
the Fellow Selection Committee of the NAI, He also actively supports Camp
Invention and the Collegiate Inventors Competition, two programs operated by
NIHF. For relaxation, he and his wife operate a hobby farm in New Hampshire. |
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