Inventors of the CCD honored with Award : Bell Labs, the research and development arm of Lucent Technologies, today announced that Dr. Willard Boyle and Dr. George Smith, both former researchers at Bell Labs, are this year's recipients of one of the highest honors in engineering, the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Charles Stark Draper Prize, for their invention and development of the charge-coupled device, or CCD. This award honors engineers whose accomplishments have significantly impacted society. CCD technology, which transforms patterns of light into useful digital information, is the basis for many forms of modern imaging. Today the most noticeable impact is its universal use in digital cameras and video cameras.
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