Thestar.com: What do Canada Post and the Mars Rover have in common with mammograms and video games? All use image sensors designed and made by the Canadian company DALSA Corp.
DALSA Corp was set up by Savvas Chamberlain, who also created the first microelectronics lab at the University of Waterloo in Canada shortly after the charge-coupled device was invented by Willard Boyle and George Smith in 1969.
Forty years later, Boyle and Smith were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Meanwhile, Chamberlain has built his company into a global leader in high-performance imaging, with 1000 employees worldwide and revenues of more than $200 million annually.
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