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Inventor of the pixel passes away at the age of 91
American computer scientist Russell Kirsch has died at the age of 91, ABC News reports. He was the guy behind the 'pixel' and scanned the first digital photo based on that concept.
Kirsch was the one that formed the base of what we now all know as a pixel. In 1957, decades before the first digital camera appeared, the scientist digitized a photo of his son. He did this with a special photo scanner that he built together with colleagues. A rotating drum and light sensors reflected a small image of the child. A scan would be made on the Standards Eastern Automatic Computer (SEAC), one of the first programmable computers.