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Article: William F. Schreiber, 84, MIT professor and imaging innovator
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 13, 2009
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From the time he picked up a camera at age 10, William F.
Schreiber exhibited a passion and innovation for film and television
image processing. He soon built his own film enlarger and later
designed many successful commercial products and patents.
As a professor of electrical engineering at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology for more than 30 years, he also helped mold
innovators of today's technologies.
Exactly how much of an effect he had on his students was seen in
the days following his death in his Cambridge home on Sept. 21 after
a period of failing health. He was 84.
"He was a very accomplished scientist and engineer, but all the
mail I've been getting from his former students and ...