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Steven Sasson Photo Source: Gorneault, M. Melissa Gornealut Photojournalism�Retrieved 10/20, 2014, from http: //mgorneault 89. blogspot. com/2013/06/going-back-in-time. html • Inventor of the Digital Camera (1975) • BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer • US Patent • National Medal of Technology and Innovation (2009) • Member of AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassadors Program

The First Digital Camera Photo Source: Friedman, David. How Steve Sasson Invented the Digital Camera. Retrieved 11/2, 2014, from http: //www. fastcodesign. com/1663611/how-steve-sasson-invented-the -digital-camera-video • Built in Kodak’s applied research laboratory • First digital pictures and playback system in 1975 • Used a Fairchild CCD • Stored 30 pictures • Images were only 0. 01 megapixels • Took about a year to build

Advice for Disruptive Innovation • Understand you corporate culture and speak to it • You do have friends, but they may be hard to find • Public Relations: be honest and positive • All roadblocks are temporary • Patience, Persuasion, Persistence

References "Meet the Invention Ambassadors, " November 2, 2014; http: //www. aaas. org/inventionambassadors. • Sasson, Steve. Personal interview. 6 October 2014. • Sasson, Steven. Rochester Engineering Society Gala Keynote. 9 April 2011. •