death_date work_institution birth_place citizenship societies awards field birth_date known_for residence article_title name alma_mater
september 21 , 2009 -lrb- aged 84 -rrb- mit united states usa national electronics engineers academy of engineering spie institute of electrical and spie gold medal -lrb- 1989 -rrb- electrical engineering 1925 optical character recognition color printing cambridge , massachusetts william f. schreiber
 william f. schreiber columbia university -lrb- ph.d -rrb- university -lrb- b.s. , m.s -rrb- , harvard
william f. schreiber

william f. schreiber -lrb- 1925 -- 2009 -rrb- was an electrical engineer and professor emeritus of mit .
schreiber had served on the advisory committee of federal communications commission .
in march 1969 , he founded the imaging systems supplier ecrm -lrb- electronic character recognition machinery -rrb- .
the company was responsible for the design of computer-based color printing system and an optical character recognition machine .
