Dennis Matthies:  

Dennis Matthies The ten years following Tosa West were spent in furthering my education; first at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and then at Princeton University. These studies led to a PhD in physics. Later I attended the MIT Sloan School of Business to study the management of innovation and technology. I married Judy Keen from Princeton in 1970. We were blessed with a son and a daughter. Both children followed my example and dragged their college education out for 10 years. Our son got his MBA from Wharton and works for Bloomberg in the NYC office. He commutes by ferry from his home in NJ where he lives with his wife and two children who are 6 and 8. Our daughter got her masters in speech pathology and lives with her husband and three children 6, 8 and 19 in Tampa FL. We see the grand children regularly and take an extended family reunion trip together every year. My career began at RCA Laboratories in Princeton NJ where I spent 45 years doing hundreds of interesting projects. I had no career plan but thought that inventing gadgets for James Bond and winning a Nobel Prize would be cool. I developed RCA’s VideoDisc product, which was the precursor to DVDs. I also was at the leading edge of developing projection, LCD, plasma, 3D and OLED TVs. Other projects led to the large displays used at sports stadiums and Times Square. I worked with GE Medical in Waukesha to develop the high resolution CAT Scan product. I worked on James Bond like toys for the intelligence agencies to help collect and exploit video information. My work with d...Expand for more