Silicon Eye Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation

Name: Silicon Eye Microchip Swashbucklers and the Future of High-Tech Innovation
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ISBN: 9780393328417

ISBN-10: 0393328414

ISBN-13: 9780393328417

Edition: 2006

Authors: George Gilder

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Technology insider George Gilder delivers a "compelling" (Wired) look under the hood at a genius-fueled startup. Thanks to the digital technology revolution, cameras are everywherePDAs, phones, anywhere you can put an imaging chip and a lens. Battling to usurp this two-billion-dollar market is a Silicon Valley company, Foveon, whose technology not only produces a superior image but also may become the eye in artificially intelligent machines. Behind Foveon are two legendary figures who made the personal computer possible: Carver Mead of Caltech, one of the founding fathers of information technology, and Federico Faggin, inventor of the CPUthe chip that runs every computer. George Gilder…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 0.54" wide x 0.80" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



Prologue: Who Is Carver Mead?



Three Men and A Camera



Delbruck Bursts In



The Fourth Camera



Merrill's View



The Charged Competition



Annealing Neurons



The Forgotten Founder



FF



Beyond the Silicon Gate



Tobermory



The Hopfield Net



The Cat and the Camera



Carverland



Michelle



Misha



Synaptics



The Analog Perplex



Seizing the Sword



The Cat



Teleology at Oxford



White Rabbit



Foveon



Merrill's Magic



Lyon's Den of Many Colors



Photokina 2000 and Beyond



Foveon's Disruptive Challenge



Holy Kammoli!



Foveon RAW in Vegas


Epilogue: Camera's End


Glossary


Acknowledgments


Index