Mr. Dilworth is president of Optical Systems Design, Inc., and has since 1961 been intensively involved in development and application of computer software for optical design. He has extensive experience in most areas of lens design, particularly in thermal infrared systems, and is the author of the well-known SYNOPSYS(tm) lens design program, which is widely used by lens designers worldwide.
As author of SYNOPSYS, Mr. Dilworth has advanced the state of the art in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and with the development of the popular PSD (Pseudo Second Derivative) optimization method.