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Digital imaging pioneer Russell Kirsch dies at 91 – TechCrunch:
Russell Kirsch, whose research going back to the '50s underlies the entire field of digital imaging, died earlier this week at the age of 91. It's hard to overstate the impact of his work, which led to the first digitally scanned photo and the creation of what we now think of as pixels.
Born to Russian and Hungarian immigrant parents in 1929, Kirsch attended NYU, Harvard and MIT, eventually landing a job at the National Bureau of Standards (later the National Institutes of Science and Technology) that he would keep for the rest of his working life.
Although he researched, coded and theorized for 50 years and even after his retirement, his most famous accomplishment is no doubt the first scanned digital image — decades before the first digital camera.
[...] This foundational work led directly to the creation of methods, algorithms and storage techniques for digital images that would inform decades of computer science. Kirsch continued his work on early AI right up until retirement, and even then continued tinkering with his idea of adaptive pixels that would enable much clearer images at lower resolutions. The idea has merit, naturally, though memory and bandwidth aren't quite the bottlenecks they once were.
Throughout his life Kirsch and his wife, who survives him with their children, were also travelers, climbers and artists. No doubt his rich life contributed to his important work and vice versa.
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:17PM (10 children)
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Summary: A single news story, and at the moment the world is on fire.
I was told 90% of my submissions were not "quality" by janirok although martyb told me when I inquired at least 3 times why I didnt even get accepted/rejected response within weeks, that they just didnt have time.
These are the stories the mods here have time for, and only one of them qualifies as news. News is not about ancient history, distant history, video game releases, things we already know like amazon and microsoft are absolute garbage.
News i belarus protestors being tortured, a tanker spill destroying reefs for no reason, german unions saying 4 day workweek is required, and things happening in powerful countries like the united states and israel, of which there are too many to count. News is things that affect the english speaking countries of the world, this week, not this millenia.
So Im sure this 91 year old I have never heard of was a nice guy, the gaping holes in the content of this frontpage feed may tell you a lot about the actual interests of those who moderate it.
But if you want to get into trivia, lets do it! Yesterday Ariana Grande endorsed this meme via twitter, that claims people who are protesting child trafficking by oligarchs and famous people, is the same as being a nazi, using dogwhistling:
https://files.catbox.moe/ndhmla.png [catbox.moe]
And Seth Rogen, a jewish actor on a jewish podcast, said he was afraid of jews, and then jews called him on the phone and threaned him to take back that statement:
https://files.catbox.moe/jm3oj2.png [catbox.moe]
Sorry(not really) for hijacking top comment, but this needed to be said. And if the stories arent getting responses for 3 hours on a sunday, while the world burns, maybe the moderators should make an adjustment. If they want the site to succeed.
Just trying to help the community. Also the united states not plunge into civil war due to fifth columns from foreign countries.
https://files.catbox.moe/8pthkd.png [catbox.moe]
And again, I post this at a lot of places, but at the moment the things that I consider news are being heavily censored on major platorms operated by ownership with very specific interests, which do not align with those of my home country, the United States of America.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by looorg on Sunday August 16 2020, @02:25PM (1 child)
This 91 year old you never heard of that created something you rely on every single day. I guess you could at least take a second or two out of your very busy day, or life, to make note of his passing.
There are other and probably more suitable places if you want to discuss and talk about the current world, political-, news then this place. I guess we just use this place for radically different things. I come here to mainly read interesting things that are not really part of the mainstream news or world-problems.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Unixnut on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:54PM
The irony being that top poster had to use a device with a pixel display in order to grace us with their opinion on how unimportant the inventor of said pixels is compared to other news of the day.
I fully concur with you. If I want my daily dose of human-created insanity, I can visit any of the myriad of news site out there that cater to the general public with regards to current affairs . Sites that cater to nerdy pursuits are not as common, as we are at the end of the day, a minority in the world. So I am happy if a specialist site such as Soylent caters to the more nerdy news out there, and long may it continue.
Saying that, said top poster could have better spent their time submitting the stories under the "Politics" topic if they feel so strongly. At least there would be a chance they get published (although it may help if they have some kind of nerdy angle)
General news I can find all over the place. The death of Russell Kirsch, not so easily. I read some of his work in the 00's when I was doing research for an image search engine. So many thanks for your contributions to computing and imagery, and may you Rest In Peace.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:42PM
Just another cis-privileged-white-male-who-had-the-world-handed-to-him-on-a-silver-platter. Worse, he's probably a closet Jew!
Don't like the story, asshole? Submit your own stories. If you submit a wall of fucking text with dozens of links to your own inane maudlin "memes", you know it won't be accepted.
Grow up you whiny bitch. Just fucking grow up. Stop working so very hard to be a worthless cunt, and we might forget what a cunt you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @04:51PM (3 children)
If Belarus is so important to you, you should take your lame ass to Belarus, and do something about the current situation. And, none of us will notice when you are arrested, tortured, and executed as a foreign agent interfering in Belarusan affairs. You won't even become a trivia, to be ignored.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:09PM (2 children)
Lukashenka is finished, he has but an insignificant number of Marxist supporters and rumors are he's just run to Russia. All this happened without any assistance from Mr Hudson.
So we can get back on topic now.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @05:49PM (1 child)
Mr. Hudson might have intercepted Lukashenka before he got to Russia - if only Mr. Hudson were genuine, and if Mr. Hudson had any intestinal fortitude. Mr. Hudson is just a whiny bitch.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @06:19PM
Intestinal fortitude are his other meds.
Farewell to the last vestiges of the USSR, even leftists are cheering the dictators demise. Honk [twitter.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @08:44PM
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(Score: 4, Disagree) by inertnet on Sunday August 16 2020, @09:47PM (1 child)
Quote from the "About" page:
As far as I'm concerned, this site already has far too many articles about politics. There are lots of other places that focus on politics but you won't find me there. Politics is a puppet show that's not worth my time and I try to ignore articles about them around here.
Yes, Belarus is a bad place right now, but you can read about it on most of the regular news sites out there.
So, please don't complain about this site lacking political articles.
Thank you.
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Monday August 24 2020, @11:20AM
Reading comprehension of what I am saying on scale of 0 to 100 = 0