{"id":1186,"date":"2011-05-20T11:21:19","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T03:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alfredivy.per.sg\/blogger\/?p=1186"},"modified":"2015-11-15T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T13:29:30","slug":"willard-boyle-father-of-the-digital-cameras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/2011\/05\/willard-boyle-father-of-the-digital-cameras\/","title":{"rendered":"Willard Boyle, father of the digital cameras"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this on Engadget, the man who revolutionized digital imaging has passed on.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We have some sad news to share with you today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/willard%20boyle\/\">Willard Boyle<\/a>, the man who created the imaging technology behind everything from digital cameras to barcode scanners, has died at the age of 86. In 2009, Boyle <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2009\/10\/06\/nobel-prize-in-physics-shared-by-ccd-inventors-fiber-optics-pio\/\">shared<\/a> a Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the CCD, which allowed people to capture images in digital format for the first time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to say that the groundwork started in 1969.\u00a0 I guess formal recognition took its time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/05\/19\/willard-boyle-man-who-revolutionized-digital-imaging-dies-at-8\/\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Willard_Boyle\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just saw this on Engadget, the man who revolutionized digital imaging has passed on. We have some sad news to share with you today: Willard Boyle, the man who created the imaging technology behind everything from digital cameras to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3544,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions\/3544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alfredivy.sg\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}