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Keep Design Services Close: Blog entry in Quality Magazine 12.15.08

Ned posted a blog entry on the Vision and Sensors website about keeping design as close to in-house as possible. See the entry here: http://www.visionsensorsmag.com/blog
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Article on State of Machine Vision in Control Design 12.15.08

Ned wrote a two-part piece on machine vision algorithms for Control Design.

Part 1: http://www.controldesign.com/articles/2008/SeeHitNail0801.html
Part II: http://www.controldesign.com/articles/2008/HitNailPartII0812.html
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Ned quoted in Control Design '08 Makes an Impact 12.01.08

Ned Lecky was quoted in Control Design's '08 Makes an Impact article regarding the importance of Gigabit Ethernet in converging many sensing technologies. See http://www.controldesign.com/articles/2008/08MakesImpactINQ4.html?page=4
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OEM Insight Column in Control Design 11.01.08

Ned wrote a column on using machine vision in closed-loop control applications for Control Design. The article will appear in the December 2008 issue.
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GigE Article in Vision & Sensors 9.01.08

Interfacing cameras to computers used to be a challenge. In the 1980s, when machine vision was in its infancy, most cameras used analog interfaces based on closed-circuit TV (CCTV) standards such as RS-170. Analog camera data was sent as composite video down coaxial cable and digitized by frame grabber hardware that was built into special hardware dubbed a “machine vision system.”

In the 1990s, digital cameras proliferated, but most digital cameras used parallel ...
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Interview in Vision Systems Design 6.01.08

Ned was interviewed by Conard Holton for the Programming Success column in thre May 2008 issue of Vision Systems Design.
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