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From 1954 to 1955 he served with
Canadian National Telegraphs as a Transmission Engineer. In 1956, Smith joined the Computation Centre, University of Toronto, as Research Engineer assigned to assist in the development of high-speed computers at the Digital Computer Laboratory, University of Illinois,
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Shanghai Tiedao University, Shanghai, China in 1989. From 1993 to 1998, Smith was a visiting professor of electrical and electronic engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, where he was founding director of its
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Urbana. In 1960, he joined the faculty at the
Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Toronto as an Assistant Professor. In 1961 he returned the University of Illinois as an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering where he became Chief Engineer of
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On 14 May 2024 an event in memory of Prof. Smith was held in
Toronto called "The Joy of Circuit Design: Honouring the Life and Memory of K.C. Smith". It included presentations by a variety of people related to Prof. Smith and featured his former graduate students: Prof.
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Bachelor of Applied Science degree from the Division of Engineering Physics (now Division of Engineering Science) in 1954, the M.A.Sc in electrical engineering in 1956, and the Ph.D. in Physics in 1960, all from the University of Toronto.
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Smith's publications are in the areas of electronic circuits, computer architecture, multiple-valued logic, instrumentation, sensors, machine vision, neural networks, computer music, human factors and human-computer interfaces, and databases.
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An anonymous former student donated $ 75,000 to establish the
Kenneth Carless Smith Engineering Science Research Fellowship, which is awarded yearly to a student or students in the Engineering Science program at the University of Toronto.
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R. Safaee-Rad, I. Tchoukanov, K.C. Smith, B. Benhabib, Three-dimensional location estimation of circular features for machine vision, IEEE Transactions on
Robotics and Automation, vol. 8, no. 5, pp. 624–640, October 1992.
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In 2012, the "Kenneth C. Smith Early Career Award for
Microelectronics Research" was created by the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic to honor Smith for his contribution to the field of multiple-valued logic.
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Lifetime Achievement Award from Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC). He also received University of Toronto Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering Alumni Medal in 2011.
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Prof. Smith was affectionately called K.C. by his younger colleagues and also known as the "Pink Professor" for his penchant for wearing a pink hat, pink shirt, and pink accessories.
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Zvonko G. Vranesic, E. Stewart Lee, Kenneth C. Smith, A many-valued algebra for switching systems, IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 964–971, October 1970.
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Smith co-founded and was principal scientist at Z-Tech, a medical-instrumentation company that developed bio-impedance measurement devices for the detection of breast cancer.
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Smith was elected fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (1978) "for contributions to digital circuit design" and became a Life Fellow in 1996.
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W. Buxton, M.R. Lamb, D. Sherman, K.C. Smith, Towards a comprehensive user interface management system, Computer Graphics, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 35–42, July 1983.
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In 2014, Kenneth C. Smith and Laura Fujino were presented with the Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Award, selected by a panel of EDN and EE Times editors.
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of the Publications Council of the Canadian Society of Electrical Engineering (CSEE), and a Director of the Canadian Society for Professional Engineers (CSPE).
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Special Issue of the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic (MVL) and Soft Computing, in recognition of Smith’s 70th year and 30 years of contributions to MVL, 2003
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In 1984, he received the IEEE Computer Society Certificate of Appreciation "for contributions to multiple-valued circuit and device technology".
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S.K. Lee, W. Buxton, K.C. Smith, A multi-touch three-dimensional touch-sensitive tablet,
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Smith, K.C.; Sedra, A. (1968). "The current conveyor—A new circuit building block".
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Proceedings of the 1985 Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems
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K.C. Smith, Multiple-valued logic: A tutorial and appreciation,
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510:"In memoriam: Professor Emeritus Kenneth C. Smith (1932–2023)"
837:"Fellowship Established in Honour of Former Chair K.C. Smith"
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IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Service Award, 2000
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KCs Problems and Solutions to Microelectronic Circuits
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Laboratory Explorations to Microelectronic Circuits
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