Gary Babcock Gordon

Gary Gordon
Born

November 16, 1939

Portland, Oregon
Residence Saratoga, California
Education

U.C. Berkeley BSEE

Stanford MSEE
Spouse(s) Nicola Whitney Gordon

Gary Gordon is a retired engineer, naval officer, associate professor at San Jose State University, Agilent Technologies Fellow, and co-founder of Cambotics, a company pioneering robotic studio camera dollies. He is a named inventor on 79 patents including the modern optical computer mouse.[1] At Hewlett Packard he pioneered instrumentation for testing computer circuits including the first Logic Probe,[2][3] Logic Clip,[4][5] Logic Pulser,[6][7][8] and HP's first Logic Analyzer.[9] Subsequently he led the development of a number of projects including HP's distance-measuring laser interferometer,[10] the ORCA Robot,[11] and various instruments used in analytical chemistry and bioscience. His research also included computer input devices, and in 1999 he was awarded HP's first annual Prize for Innovation[12] for co-inventing the modern optical computer mouse which measures travel by correlating successive images of the work surface. His philanthropic interests include writing eye tracking software for controlling a screen cursor with ones gaze and the SoftSwitch[13] input device, both for paralyzed computer users, and teaching radio technology at Handiham radio camps. In 2017 the Computer History Museum produced a 45 minute video[14] and transcript[15] chronicling Gordon's career and his contributions to the development of digital computers.

References

  1. ↑ US 6433780, "Seeing eye mouse for a computer system"
  2. ↑ "IC Logic Checkout Simplified" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 6. 1969. pp. 14–16.
  3. ↑ US 3543154, "Logic Probe"
  4. ↑ "Logic Clip" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 10. 1973. p. 12.
  5. ↑ US 3670245, "Logic Clip"
  6. ↑ "Logic Pulser and Probe: a New Digital Troubleshooting Team (cover story)" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 9. 1972. pp. 2–7.
  7. ↑ US 3781689, "Tristate pulse generator for producing consecutive pairs of pulses"
  8. ↑ "Current Tracer: A New Way to Find Low Impedance Logic-Circuit Faults (cover story)" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 12. 1976. pp. 2–8.
  9. ↑ "The Logic Analyzer: A New Instrument for Observing Logic Signals (cover story)" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 10. 1973. pp. 2–16.
  10. ↑ "A Two-Hundred-Foot Yardstick with Graduations Every Microinch (cover story)" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 8. 1970. pp. 2–9.
  11. ↑ "ORCA: Optimized Robot for Chemical Analysis (cover story)" (PDF). HP Journal. No. 3. 1993. pp. 6–19.
  12. ↑ Agilent Labs’ Barney Oliver Prize Brings Prestige and Honor to Annual Recipients
  13. ↑ US 6771190, "Signalling apparatus for the physically disabled"
  14. ↑ Oral History of Gary Gordon
  15. ↑ Gordon, Gary oral history
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