Hi wireless, On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:49 PM, wireless <[email protected]> wrote: > The real pioneer is a MIT grad that is tenured in Canada: > Steve Mann
I'm familiar with Steve Mann, and I guess that to some he's seen as a pioneer. One of my closest friends was offered a PhD position with him, but turned it down after meeting him, saying that he was quite egocentric and eccentric (as one might guess). I would say his concept of 'sous-veillance' was quite original, from a social perspective. However, from my perspective, he was just one of the earlier people to do 'cool stuff' with ccd's and image sensors. He's already 'patented the concept' of putting a camera in a prosthetic eye too, but he has to this day never shown a device to support the patent. I call that "patent trolling". Cheers, Chris
