Kenneth C. Smith

[4] It included presentations by a variety of people related to Prof. Smith and featured his former graduate students: Prof. Adel Sedra and Bill Buxton.

In 1960, he joined the faculty at the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor.

In 1961 he returned the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering where he became Chief Engineer of Illiac II, and of the Illiac III, and attained the rank of Associate Professor of Computer Science.

[6] Smith's publications are in the areas of electronic circuits, computer architecture, multiple-valued logic, instrumentation, sensors, machine vision, neural networks, computer music, human factors and human-computer interfaces, and databases.

Smith and Sedra notably invented the current conveyor,[9] a general circuit component similar to an operational amplifier.

Smith, A. Sedra, The current conveyor—A new circuit building block, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol.

Smith, A second-generation current conveyor and its applications, IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, vol.

Zvonko G. Vranesic, E. Stewart Lee, Kenneth C. Smith, A many-valued algebra for switching systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.

Smith, RAP—An associative processor for data base management, Proceedings of the National Computer Conference, pp.

Smith, Towards a comprehensive user interface management system, Computer Graphics, vol.

Smith, A multi-touch three-dimensional touch-sensitive tablet, Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, pp.

Smith, B. Benhabib, Three-dimensional location estimation of circular features for machine vision, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, vol.

[13] Smith co-founded and was principal scientist at Z-Tech, a medical-instrumentation company that developed bio-impedance measurement devices for the detection of breast cancer.

[16] In 1984, he received the IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation "for contributions to multiple-valued circuit and device technology".

[17] In 2011, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC).

[18] He also received University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Alumni Medal in 2011.

[20] In 2014, Kenneth C. Smith and Laura Fujino were presented with the Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award,[21] selected by a panel of EDN[22] and EE Times[23] editors.

Professor KC Smith visiting Mann's Phenomenological Augmented Reality Lab, at University of Toronto, 2014 December 12th