The silicon eye /
George Gilder.
- 1st ed.
- New York : W.W. Norton, c2005.
- 318 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
- Enterprise .
- Enterprise (New York, N.Y.) .
"Atlas books.". Includes index.
Prologue : who is Carver Mead? -- Delbrück bursts in -- The fourth camera -- Merrill's view -- The charged competition -- Annealing neurons -- FF -- Beyond the silicongate -- Tobermory -- The Hopfield net -- Carverland -- Michelle -- Misha -- Synaptics -- The analog perplex -- Seizing the sword -- The cat -- Teleology at Oxford -- White rabbit -- Merrill's magic -- Lyon's den of many colors -- Photokina 2000 and beyond -- Foveon's disruptive challenge -- Holy kammoli! -- Foveon RAW in Vegas.
Traces the history of Foveon, a Silicon Valley company whose technology is used to create superior photographic images, and profiles the men and women behind the company's success.
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High technology industries--California--Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara County) Digital electronics. Photography--Digital techniques. Electronic digital computers. Artificial intelligence. Computer vision. Visual perception. Cellular telephones. High technology industries. Digital electronics. Photography. Electronic digital computers. Artificial intelligence. Computer vision. Visual perception. Cellular telephones.