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For someone whose claim to fame was during the onboarding of the personal computer, I wish Wikipedia would provide period-appropriate images. For example, I fo

• kevinwang 1y ago
  Good idea! Anyone should be able to add it if it's in the public domain.
• DonHopkins 1y ago
  I asked Lee about that great photo and he wrote: Prototype for the Automatic Photoelectric Keratometer, (US 4,345,437 - 1966, to Westheimer and Felsenstein). Taken by myself in the lab of Gerald Westheimer in 1965. Vacuum tube electronics of my design controlling an oscilloscope pattern focused on a sumulated eyeball with two photomultiplier tubes catching the glint (specular) reflection and reversing the sweep direction. A poor idea which went nowhere but it got a patent for the professor who generously included me as co-inventor and coauthor of a paper. UC Berkeley School of Optometry — I was a Lab Helper at $2.03/hour. Prof. Westheimer later moved to Physiology. He was 99 in 2023 when we last met.
• kragen 1y ago
  For the primary photo on biographies of living people, Wikipedia prefers photos to be as current as possible.