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Robert Adler

  • Space Command

    Space Command
    Adler created the first Space Command remote based on Ultrasonics. The Ultrasonic remote control remanined the same dsign for 25 years. These remotes worked by using Ultrasound Waves.
  • Electronic Beam Parmatic Amplifier

    Electronic Beam Parmatic Amplifier
    Robert Alder and Dr. Glen invented the Electron Beam Parametic Amplifier. They developed it in 1958 at the Wade of Stanford University adopted by the Radio atronomers worldwide,as well as by the U.S. Air Force for long-range missile detection.
  • Technical Advisor

    Technical Advisor
    Aldeer rose from Vice and President and Director of Reasearch at Zenith until he was a technical advisor to the company until 1997.
  • Digital Video Revolution

    Digital Video Revolution
    In 1970's, Dr.Adler's research was instrumental in the development of the digital video revolution that exploded in the 1990's
  • Remote

    Remote
    In the 1980's the Zennith Company sold more than 9 million TV's along with Adlers invention of the remote.
  • IEEE's Edison Medal

    IEEE's Edison Medal
    Adler won the IEEE's Edison Medal in 1980.
  • Award

    Robert Adler won the Undergraduate program's Distinquished Teaching Award in 1990.
  • Awards

    Robert Adler won the Teaching Award and the Tanner Award in 1996
  • Technology

    Adlers latest patent application was filed on Octtober 6, 2006 for work on touch-screen technology.
  • Last patent

    Adler recieved his last patent, for an improvement to touchscreen controls, two weeks before his death in 2007