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From: olea@netcom.com (Michael Olea)
Subject: Re: Computer eye
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berna@cs.caltech.edu (Berna L Massingill) writes:

>In article <keving.7.0038A57C@kg.com> keving@kg.com (Kevin Goldstein) writes:
>>In article <3n3is4$b9q@gateway.wiltel.com> mike_zemina@wiltel.com (Mike Zemina) writes:
>>>From: mike_zemina@wiltel.com (Mike Zemina)
>>> ....
>>>I saw brief glimpse of a PBS program that was like a bio on a woman  
>>>(biology&engineering majors) that has been developing the equivalent of an  
>>>electronic eye. Does ANYONE know of any further information - websites, papers,  
>>>woman's name, etc? 
>>>  ....
>>
>>I know that Carver Mead was working on computer vision ....
>>Mead has his own company, now, I believe, though I don't know the name or 
>>where it is. You might try calling MIT (I think that's the university Mead 
>>is/was associated with) and asking them for contact info.

>I've replied to the original via e-mail, as requested, but just for
>the record:  the woman's name is Misha Mahowald, and she did
>work with Carver Mead (PhD, 1992), but at Caltech, where he has been
>on the faculty in Computation and Neural Systems for many years.  
>-- 
>Berna Massingill
>internet:  berna@cs.caltech.edu

	Elaborating just a bit, Carver Mead's venture was called
"Synaptics" (don't know if they are still in business), and his
core technology was called the Silicon Retina, which was written up
in at least one issue of Scientific American, and which indeed did
mimic aspects of mammalian retinae (in an analogue way, while
remaining discrete).

