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Peter (Pete) Smith was President, Chairman and Co-Founder of CADKEY, Inc. In 1981 he helped produce the first commercial based 3D graphics tablet. He played a key role in the creation and marketing of CADKEY, which won 3 PC Magazine Editors Choice Awards. To date, CADKEY has sold over 300,000 systems including more than 1200 seats at The Boeing Corporation. Pete was a finalist in INC Magazine / Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award. While at CADKEY, he also spearheaded the development of educational programs throughout the world. Pete worked at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft for nineteen years. While there, he worked and published in the areas of video image processing, inspection systems, transonic flow, heat transfer, numerical methods, acoustics and robotics. He introduced image processing and pattern recognition to United Technologies where he established an Image Processing Lab. Pete was Director of Strategic Planning at the National Center for Manufacturing Science. He received his B.S. in Physics from Bucknell University, M.S. in Physics from Trinity College and an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from RPI. | 