Oral History of Richard Lyon
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Channel: Computer History Museum · 2016 · Science & Technology
Interviewed by Gunter Steinbach, on 2016-10-10 in Mountain View, California, X7975.2017 © Computer History Museum Richard (Dick) Lyon invented a forerunner of today's optical mouse around 1980 at Xerox PARC. He went on to work on speech recognition at Schlumberger, then on hearing and handwriting recognition at Apple. In 1997 he co-founded Foveon and was instrumental in developing their layered-pixel image sensor. Since 2006 he is working at Google where he has designed Street View cameras and worked on sound analysis. * Note: Transcripts represent what was said in the interview. However, to enhance meaning or add clarification, interviewees have the opportunity to modify this text afterward. This may result in discrepancies between the transcript and the video. Please refer to the transcript for further information - http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102717221 Visit computerhistory.org/collections/oralhistories/ for more information about the Computer History Museum's Oral History Collection. Lot Number: X7975.2017 Catalog Number: 102717221
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