Sabrina Kemeny Contents Early years and education Entrepreneur Achievements and Awards References Navigation menu"Chip Hall of Fame: Photobit PB-100""Camera on a Chip""Sabrina E. Kemeny Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search""Active Pixel Sensor""Chip Hall of Fame: Photobit PB-100""Micron turns up the heat in the image sensor market""New wearable hardware interface, Tap Systems, opens SDK to developers""This startup wants to kill off the Qwerty keyboard""The Tap wearable lets you type on any surface to send messages"
Living peopleInventors
CMOS image sensorLong IslandNew YorkJewishNursing SchoolVermontBAColumbia UniversityBSMSPh.DEric FossumNASAJet Propulsion LaboratorySpace Technology Hall of FameEric FossumCalifornia Institute of TechnologyMicron
Sabrina Kemeny is an American entrepreneur and engineer known for developing the CMOS image sensor.[1]
Contents
1 Early years and education
1.1 Research and Development
2 Entrepreneur
3 Achievements and Awards
4 References
Early years and education
Kemeny was born in Long Island, New York to Jewish immigrants. After graduating from public high school one year early, she went attended Nursing School in Vermont. Although quickly rising to the position of intensive care charge nurse, she felt frustrated with the lack of upward mobility available to her and so returned to school in her mid-twenties. She received a BA (1986) from Columbia University’s General Studies School and a BS (1986), MS (1987) and Ph.D. (1991) in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University as well.
Research and Development
As a graduate student at Columbia University, Kemeny worked in Professor Eric Fossum's research group, working on CCD focal-plane image processing.[2][3] In 1991, she joined NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) where she worked on the hardware (IC) implementation of neural network processors. She then became a member of JPL's "active-pixel" image sensor team where she co-invented the revolutionary CMOS active-pixel sensor technology that is at the core of every cell phone and digital camera today. The United States Space Foundation inducted her into the Space Technology Hall of Fame for her pioneering work.[4]
Entrepreneur
In 1995, Dr. Sabrina Kemeny with her then husband Eric Fossum co-founded Photobit Corporation to commercialize the fledgling CMOS sensor technology.[5] As Photobit's CEO, Dr. Kemeny negotiated an exclusive license agreement with the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) for JPL's camera chip technology and oversaw strategic direction, day-to-day operations and financing until the successful sale to Micron in 2001.[6] She is currently co-founder of Tap Systems Inc., a company that produces a wearable keyboard and mouse.[7][8][9]
Achievements and Awards
Kemeny has published over 20 technical papers and holds 9 US patents. She has received several honors including:
L'Oreal-UNESCO Helena Rubinstein "Outstanding Women in Science" award in 1982-1985
NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal in 1996- Induction into the US Space Foundation Space Technology Hall of Fame in 1999
References
^ Pepitone, Julianne (2018-07-02). "Chip Hall of Fame: Photobit PB-100". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2019-03-02..mw-parser-output cite.citationfont-style:inherit.mw-parser-output .citation qquotes:"""""""'""'".mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registrationcolor:#555.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration spanborder-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon abackground:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center.mw-parser-output code.cs1-codecolor:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-errordisplay:none;font-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-errorfont-size:100%.mw-parser-output .cs1-maintdisplay:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-formatfont-size:95%.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-leftpadding-left:0.2em.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-rightpadding-right:0.2em
^ Fossum, Eric; Kemeny, Sabrina (January 1996). "Camera on a Chip" (PDF). Natural Science: 178–185.
^ "Sabrina E. Kemeny Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
^ Foundation, Space (2017-11-03). "Active Pixel Sensor". Space Foundation. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
^ Pepitone, Julianne (2018-07-02). "Chip Hall of Fame: Photobit PB-100". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
^ "Micron turns up the heat in the image sensor market". DIGITIMES. Retrieved 2019-03-03.
^ "New wearable hardware interface, Tap Systems, opens SDK to developers". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
^ Barber, Lynsey (2016-05-12). "This startup wants to kill off the Qwerty keyboard". www.cityam.com. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
^ "The Tap wearable lets you type on any surface to send messages". VentureBeat. 2017-11-27. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
