Russell Kirsch is the first digital photo gift to the world through photo scanning
Russell Kirsch, the computer scientist who invented the pixel and was credited with scanning the world's first digital image, died on August 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon. He was 91 years old at the time of his death.
When Kirsch became a father for the first time in 1958, he went to the office with a picture of his son Walden, just like five other ordinary fathers. He worked at the then US National Bureau of Standards (NBS), now known as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Kirsch was one of the few lucky and licensed people who was allowed to operate a standard electronic automatic computer. Standard Electronic Automatic Computer is the first programmable computer in America.
While working for the US National Bureau of Standards, Kirsch wonders what would happen if a computer could see the world as we do.
To answer his question, Kirsch placed a black-and-white picture of his few-month-old son, Walden, in a scanner attached to the Standard Electronic Automatic Computer in his office. Which is able to convert his son's black-and-white image into a 16 pixel x 18 pixel image.
The scanner used to create the image from his son's picture uses a rotating drum and a photomultiplayer that converts the image to 16 pixels x 18 pixels, and Walden's image is the world's first digital scanned image. Kirsch's first digital scanned film was later included in Life Magazine's '100 Pictures That Changed the World'.
Born in Manhattan on June 20, 1929, Kirch is the son of an immigrant couple from Lithuania and Hungary.
Her father was a pharmacist by profession and her mother was a housemaid. Raised from a typical immigrant family, Kirsch studied at New York University, the Bronx High School of Science, Harvard, and MIT, and worked for five decades as a scientist at the U.S. National Bureau of Standards.
The technology that Kirsch invented out of curiosity is the basis of digital photography today. His work lays the groundwork for satellite imaging, bar codes, scans. Human civilization will forever be grateful to Kirsch for his contribution to the advancement of science.
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