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James C. Bliss (October 21, 1933 – January 24, 2012) was an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur best known for his pioneering role in developing technological aids for visually impaired people. ==Education and technical research== Born in Fort Worth, Texas Jim Bliss grew up in Oklahoma City and Chicago. He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Northwestern University in 1956 and began working at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Menlo Park, California, while enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University. He received his M.S.E.E. from Stanford (1958) and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961). He returned to SRI where he became head of the Bio-Information Systems Group. He continued his dissertation work in tactile communication and also lectured in EE at Stanford, where he met John Linvill, who had conceived a machine that would allow his blind daughter, Candy, to read ordinary print by translating the letter images into vibrations. In 1962 Bliss and Linvill began a multi-year development effort at Stanford and SRI culminating in a successful prototype called the "Optacon" in 1969.
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