|Hughes]]; phenomenology pioneered by Fred Simmons (scientist)|Fred Simmons and A.T. Stair; U.S. Army's night vision lab formed (now Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD), and Rachets develops detection, recognition and identification modeling there; *1970: Willard Boyle & George E. Smith propose CCD at Bell Labs for picture phone; *1972: [[C