About the speaker:
Richard F. Lyon received the B.S. degree in engineering and applied science from California Institute of Technology in 1974 and the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1975. He has worked on a variety of projects involving communication and information theory, digital system design, analog and digital signal processing, VLSI design and methodologies, and sensory perception at Caltech, Bell Labs, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Stanford Telecommunications Inc., Xerox PARC, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, and Apple Computer. Presently, he is chief scientist and vice president for research of Foveon, Inc., where he has been a leader in developing technologies and products for a new generation of digital photography based on "full measured color."
Contact information:
Richard F. Lyon
Foveon, Inc.
dicklyon@acm.org