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October 5, 2006

Refocus Founder Wins Best PhD Thesis Award from Stanford Computer Science

PALO ALTO, CA - October 5, 2006 -

Stanford University's Computer Science department announced that Dr. Ren Ng has won the Arthur Samuel Award, presented annually to the best PhD thesis in the department. The title of Ren's thesis is Digital Light Field Photography.

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"The next generation of camera users will have no idea there was once a day when a camera needed to focus."
April 15, 2006

Achieving Perfect Focus
"A Stanford scientist discovers the secret to blur-free photography"
March 2006 print issue

Novel Camera Employs Microlenses
"The improved depth [of focus] could be a boon for camera users everywhere, from amateur shutterbugs to serious scientific microscopists."
January 2006 print issue

Digital Imaging: Plenoptic camera refocuses digitally
"Has capabilities that are anything but ordinary."
January 2006 print issue