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“A brand new sensor—the Quanta Image Sensor (QIS)—now under development at Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering could fundamentally revamp the field of low-light photography,” reported The Next Web.

The work on the sensor is being led by Eric Fossum, a professor of engineering, and Jiaju Ma, a graduate student. “The inventors are not just any random pair of whizbrains,” the story noted. Fossum has already made a name for himself in the field by developing the CMOS image sensor, “currently used in almost all cellphone and digital cameras, webcams, and medical imaging.”

Read the full story, published by The Next Web.