ECRM Founder Dr. William F. Schreiber Passes Away

TEWKSBURY, MA—September 30, 2009—ECRM is saddened to have to announce that William F. Schreiber, ECRM founder and Professor Emeritus at M.I.T, died suddenly at his home on Monday September 21st at the age of 84. Together with Melvin J. Fennell from The Associated Press and fellow MIT professors and PhDs Samuel J. Mason, and Donald E. Troxel, Mr. Schreiber developed one of the first commercially successful optical character recognition (OCR) machines in 1969, and on March 28, 1969 founded ECRM (an acronym for Electronic Character Recognition Machinery).