William Peck:
CLASS OF 1955
Geneva High SchoolClass of 1955
Geneva, NY
University of RochesterClass of 1970
Rochester, NY
University of RochesterClass of 1959
Rochester, NY
Geneva Junior High SchoolClass of 1951
Geneva, NY
North Street Elementary SchoolClass of 1949
Geneva, NY
William's Story
Retired engineer with more than 30 papers, patents, and publications.
A laparoscope manufactured for US Surgical, using my optical design, was selected as one of the year's 25 most innovative products by Photonics Spectra magazine in 1995. I retired a year later from the company manufacturing the scope and my previously untraded stock made me some money as the company soon got swallowed up by a company that then got swallowed up by another company which was involved in the fiber optics communications network buildout.
My first journal article (co-author) was published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America about 1960 when I worked in optical design at Bausch & Lomb, where I was eventually Principal Research Scientist. (It was republished by the Society of Photo Instrumentation Engineers in their Milestone series around 1990.) While at B&L I wrote a computer program to automate much of the lens design proce...Expand for more
ss. Over the next few decades the number of optical designers declined dramatically.
I also was involved with a project which was designed to determine if extremely high altitude imagery might be useful (before we ever launched a satelite).
After Bausch & Lomb a more comprehensive program I wrote for IBM's newly released PC to automate much of the design of complex optical systems {known as GENII-PC) was an early member of the PC software million dollar club. (Shucks, I was just senior VP of development and a shareholder but the OTC stock paid off pretty well when I left.}
Oh yea, between GENII PC and the laparoscope builder I was a consultant and helped lead development of a Korean/ Japanese/English word processor, then led engineering work on the development of photogrammetry products intended primarily for government use. I also wrote the chapter on automtic lens design for an Academic Press series of books on optics.
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