Digital camera pioneer Willard S. Boyle dies

Willard Sterling Boyle, a physicist credited with pioneering the CCD sensor for imaging devices such as digital cameras, recently died at a hospital near his home in Wallace, Nova Scotia, at the age of 86. Boyle worked with fellow Bell Laboratories scientist George E. Smith in the fall of 1969 to invent the charge-coupled device as a possible technology for computer memory....



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