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Russell Kirsch, inventor of the pixel, dies at 91 – PC Gamer AU
“Anyone involved with computers will tell you how powerful it is for creativity.”
Russell Kirsch, the computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel, has died age 91. Kirsch is attributed with inventing the pixel in 1957, many years before modern computers capable of using the technology as we know it today existed. With it he reproduced an image of his son, Walden Kirsch, as an infantthe first ever digital image.
Born in 1929, Kirsch went on to study at Harvard and MIT before working at the National Bureau of Standards (now known as the National Institute of Standards…
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