Background
Born in Fort Worth, Texas Jim Bliss grew up in Oklahoma City and Chicago.
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James Bliss
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He received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Northwestern University in 1956 and began working at Stanford Research Institute (Socially Responsible Investment) in Menlo Park, California, while enrolled in graduate school at Stanford University. He received his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford (1958) and his Doctor of Philosophy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1961).
Career
He returned to Socially Responsible Investment where he became head of the Biology-Information Systems Group. In 1962 Bliss and Linvill began a multi-year development effort at Stanford and Socially Responsible Investment culminating in a successful prototype called the "Optacon" in 1969. To commercialize the Optacon, Bliss and Linvill founded Telesensory Systems, Incorporated. in 1970.
Bliss left his position of associate professor at Stanford and became president of TSI, which position he held from the company"s beginning until 1992.
Under his leadership the company developed, manufactured, and sold many innovative electronics communications products for blind and visually impaired people. In 1994 he founded JBliss Imaging Systems, which provided easy-to-use equipment for scanning and reading aloud printed materials.
Jim Bliss retired in 2005. He died of multiple myeloma on January 24, 2012.
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