Every time you snap a photo with your smartphone, you’re using technology that almost didn’t make it out of the laboratory. While working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in the 1990s, I led the development of the “camera-on-a-chip” — a breakthrough that replaced bulky camera components with a tiny semiconductor image sensor. Today, the
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