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Charles Kao’s 1966 breakthrough led to the creation of modern fiber- optic communication networks that carry voice, video and high-speed Internet data around the world.
Willard Boyle and George Smith invented the eye of the digital camera, a sensor able to transform light into a large number of pixels, the tiny points of color that are the building blocks of every digital image.
Their charge-coupled device, or CCD, is found in devices ranging from the cheapest point-and-shoot digital camera to robotic medical instruments equipped with video cameras for surgical procedures to the Hubble Space Telescope sending images from space.
