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A tribute to the late Stan Karandanis
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It was a time of hope and a time of learning. On reflection, it was a time of innocence that brings us all back to memories of 1968 and the pioneer work of IEEE authors-those men and women that dedicated their lives to image-processing algorithms and architectures and how to embed them into silicon. And then there was Stanley Karandanis. Inventor, pioneer, radical, manager, friend, father, and founder of Datacube. Stanley Karandanis passed away on May 8, 2007.1 will miss him.
Stanley Karandanis will not be remembered lightly by those that he employed. "Quite coincidentally, his father and my grandfather were from the same little Greek village," says Mike Gyros, now president of Allied Vision, "so we often joked that we might well be related or at least were related through common sheep." That was Stan.
"Stan was brilliant," says Glen Ahern, now with DALSA. "He was a physicist by training and worked in that capacity at AT&T Bell Labs before a...