Joseph Sgro, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Joseph Sgro

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1949

Place of Birth: San Diego, California, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, mathematician, inventor, neurologist, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Joseph Sgro

  • Joseph A.
  • Sgro (born September 20, 1949, in San Diego, California) is an American mathematician, neurologist / neurophysiologist, and an engineering technologist / entrepreneur in the field of frame grabbers, high-speed cameras, smart cameras, image processors, and related computer vision and machine vision technologies. Sgro began his career as an academic researcher in advanced mathematics and logic.
  • He received an AB in Mathematics in 1970 from UCLA followed by an MA in mathematics in 1973 and a PhD in mathematics in 1975 from the University of Wisconsin, where he studied mathematical logic under H.
  • Jerome Keisler who along with Jon Barwise and Kenneth Kunen formed his doctoral committee. After serving as an instructor and post doctoral fellow at Yale and also holding a membership at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, New Jersey, Sgro returned to school to study neurology, and received his M.D.
  • in 1980 from the Ph.D to M.D.
  • Program of the Leonard M.
  • Miller School of Medicine at the University of Miami, followed by an internal medicine internship at UNC Memorial Hospital, residency in neurology, a fellowship, and faculty position in clinical neurophysiology at the Neurological Institute of New York. As an outgrowth of his work in neurophysiology, while still working as a post-doctoral fellow and an assistant professor of neurology, Sgro founded Alacron, Inc.
  • (formerly Corteks, Inc.until 1990) in 1985 to manufacture technologies relevant to his neurological research.
  • In 1989 he commercialized this technology and began developing array processors, frame grabbers, vision processors, and most recently supported advances in BSI sensor technology.
  • Extending his work in machine vision technology, in 2002, Sgro founded FastVision, LLC, a maker of smart cameras, as a subsidiary of Alacron, Inc .

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