| 词条 | Eric Fossum |
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Eric R. Fossum (born October 17, 1957) is an American physicist and engineer known for developing the CMOS image sensor.[1] He is currently a professor at Thayer School of Engineering in Dartmouth College. Early years and educationFossum was born and raised in Simsbury, Connecticut and attended public school there. He also spent Saturdays at the Talcott Mountain Science Center in Avon CT which he credits for his lifelong interest in science, engineering and mentoring students. He received his B.S. in physics and engineering from Trinity College in 1979 and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Yale University in 1984. Academic careerEric R. Fossum was a member of the Electrical Engineering faculty at Columbia University from 1984 to 1990. At Columbia University, he and his students performed research on CCD focal-plane image processing and high speed III-V CCDs. In 1990, Dr. Fossum joined the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and managed JPL’s image sensor and focal-plane technology research and advanced development. In 2007 he sponsored, in part, the Trinity College Fire-Fighting Robot Contest,[2] aimed at increasing innovation and invention in the world of robotics. He joined the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth in 2010 where he teaches, performs research on the Quanta Image Sensor[3] with his graduate students, and coordinates the Ph.D. Innovation Program.[4] InventionWhile Fossum was at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, then-NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin invoked a plan of "Faster, Better, Cheaper" for NASA Space Science missions. One of the instrument goals was to miniaturize charge-coupled device (CCD) camera systems onboard interplanetary spacecraft. In response, throughout the early 1990s Fossum developed a new CMOS active pixel sensor (APS) with intra-pixel charge transfer camera-on-a-chip technology, now just called the CMOS Image Sensor or CIS[5][6] (active pixel sensors without intra-pixel charge transfer were described much earlier, by Noble in 1968).[7][8] As part of Goldin's directive to transfer space technology to the public sector whenever possible, Fossum led the CMOS APS development and subsequent transfer of the technology to US industry, including Eastman Kodak, AT&T Bell Labs, National Semiconductor and others. Despite initial skepticism by entrenched CCD manufacturers, the CMOS image sensor technology is now used in almost all cell-phone cameras, many medical applications such as capsule endoscopy and dental x-ray systems, scientific imaging, automotive safety systems, DSLR digital cameras and many other applications. Over 3 billion cameras are manufactured each year using CMOS technology.[9] EntrepreneurIn 1995, frustrated by the slow pace of the technology's adoption, he and then-wife Dr. Sabrina Kemeny co-founded Photobit Corporation to commercialize the technology.[10] He joined as Chairman of the Board and Chief Scientist in 1996 and became CEO of Photobit Technology Corporation in 2000. In late 2001, Micron Technology Inc. acquired Photobit and Dr. Fossum was named a Senior Micron Fellow. He left Micron in 2003. In 2005, he joined SiWave Inc., a developer of MEMS technology for mobile phone handsets, as CEO. SiWave was renamed Siimpel and grew substantially before his departure in 2007. Siimpel was later acquired by Tessera. In 1986 he founded the IEEE Workshop on CCDS, now known as the International Image Sensor Workshop (IISW). He co-founded and was the first President of the International Image Sensor Society (IISS)[11] which operates the IISW. Achievements and awardsEric R. Fossum has published over 260 technical papers,[12] and holds more than 150 U.S. patents.[13] He is a Fellow member of the IEEE. He has been primary thesis adviser to a number of graduated Ph.D.s. He has received several prizes and honors including:
References1. ^B. Stern, Inventors at Work, Apress 2012. 2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.trincoll.edu/events/robot/Sponsors/default.asp|title=Trinity Fire Fighting Robot Contest -Event Sponsors}} 3. ^{{cite journal|url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6615911|title=Modeling the Performance of Single-Bit and Multi-Bit Quanta Image Sensors|first=E. R.|last=Fossum|date=1 September 2013|publisher=|journal=IEEE Journal of the Electron Devices Society|volume=1|issue=9|pages=166–174|via=IEEE Xplore|doi=10.1109/JEDS.2013.2284054}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/academics/graduate/innovation|title=PhD Innovation Program - Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth|first=Thayer School of|last=Engineering|website=engineering.dartmouth.edu}} 5. ^B. Stern, Inventors at Work, Apress 2012. 6. ^e.g. US Patents 5,471,515 and 5,841,126 7. ^{{cite journal|author=Peter J. W. Noble|date=Apr 1968|publisher=IEEE|title=Self-Scanned Silicon Image Detector Arrays|volume=ED-15|issue=4|pages=202–209 }} 8. ^{{cite web|title=CMOS Sensors Enable Phone Cameras, HD Video|url=https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2017/cg_1.html|website=NASA Spinoff|publisher=NASA|accessdate=11 February 2018}} 9. ^{{Cite news|url=https://news.yale.edu/2018/01/29/engineering-alum-eric-fossum-wins-queen-elizabeth-prize-engineering|title=Engineering alum Eric Fossum wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering|last=|first=|date=January 29, 2018|work=YaleNews|access-date=January 29, 2018|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=}} 10. ^{{cite journal|url=http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/ti/2013/00000015/00000003/art00003|title=CAMERA-ON-A-CHIP: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM SATURN TO YOUR CELL PHONE|first=Eric R.|last=Fossum|date=18 December 2013|publisher=|journal=Technology & Innovation|volume=15|issue=3|pages=197–209|via=IngentaConnect|doi=10.3727/194982413X13790020921744}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.imagesensors.org/|title=International Image Sensor Society|website=www.imagesensors.org}} 12. ^See Google Scholar 13. ^USPTO Search 8-Aug 2014 14. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.psa-photo.org/index.php?awards/progress-medal|title=PSA Progress Medal}} 15. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rps.org/awards/awards-categories/progress-medal|title=Error - RPS|website=www.rps.org}} 16. ^{{cite web|url=http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=430|title=Inductee Detail - National Inventors Hall of Fame}} 17. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.academyofinventors.org/fellows.asp|title=National Academy of Inventors|website=www.academyofinventors.org}} 18. ^{{cite web|url=http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=02072013|title=National Academy of Engineering Elects 69 Members And 11 Foreign Associates}} 19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.trincoll.edu/NewsEvents/NewsArticles/pages/Six-Honorary-Degrees-to-be-Awarded-at-Commencement.aspx|title=Six Honorary Degrees to be Awarded at Commencement|last=Webmaster|website=www.trincoll.edu}} 20. ^{{cite web|url=http://qeprize.org/winner-2017/|title=2017 QEPrize Winners - Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering}} External links
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