Some Articles of Interest

• “NASA’s Tiny Camera Has a Wide Angle Future” Business Week Article April 1995

• “Imaging on the Cutting Edge” Photo Lab Management August 1996

• “New Technology Promises Camera on a Chip” NY Times May 1997

• “CMOS sensor-based "camera-on-a-chip" devices are here” Advanced Imaging Jan 1999

• “CMOS camera on a chip” Semiconductor International April 1999

• “…Get Smart style watches…”Salon May 2000

• “The CMOS Sensor: What Lies Ahead” Advanced Imaging June 2000

• “A camera in a pill may be coming soon to an intestine near you” Discover July 2000

• “A candid camera for the gut” IEEE Spectrum July 2000

• “Vendors Race to Pack Cameras Into Cell Phones” EE Times Sept 2000

• “Photobit Illuminates Cmos Image Sensing” Sensor Business Digest Sept 2000

• “TSMC First Foundry to Offer CMOS Image Sensor Technology at 0.25-Micron” Business Wire Nov 2000

• “TrueSNAP Shutter Freezes Fast-Moving Objects” from Micron web site

• “The Evolution of Digital Imaging From CCD to CMOS” from Micron web site

• “Aptina: History and Legacy” Aptina Website

• “Aptina for sale” Semi-Serious March 2008

• “Caltech Sues 6 Electronics Giants in Patent Dispute” Pasadena Star News October 2008

• “New chips poised to revolutionize photography, film” Wired.com November 2008

• NASA Hallmarks of Success video on active pixel sensor Youtube May 2010

• NASA Spinoff 2010 (see page 90)

• “Baby boomer inventions that changed the world” Reuters/Entrepreneurial December 2010

• NASA article on National Inventors Hall of Fame (pdf and website March 2011)