ECRM FOUNDER DON TROXEL PASSES AWAY
ECRM and its extended family of employees and associates sadly note the passing of its co-founder, director, mentor, and friend, Dr. Donald E. Troxel, 76, on January 18th. Dr. Troxel co-founded ECRM in 1969 along with fellow Professors Samuel J. Mason and William Schreiber (all PhDs from Massachusetts Institute of Technology), as well as Melvin Fennell from The Associated Press, to develop the first commercially successful optical character recognition (OCR) machine for use by newspapers.