Kevin Sacca makes Reddit front page

2015 Jun 26

Saratoga Springs, N.Y., resident Kevin Sacca made social networking website Reddit's front page recently with his "Ask Me Anything," or AMA, about multispectral imaging of historical documents.

Sacca, a 2012 graduate from Saratoga Springs High School, is a senior at Rochester Institute of Technology's Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science. He conducts undergraduate research with RIT Professor Roger Easton Jr., capturing and processing multispectral images of historical documents to uncover hidden details.

Outside interest in his research led Sacca to set up an Ask Me Anything interview session on Reddit. His session drew more than 350 questions and made the electronic newsletter's front page. To read the full thread, go to I am a scientist who utilizes multispectral imaging to recover and preserve information from old documents. AMA!, or find curated highlights from the session at AMA highlights.com.

Earlier this month, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, awarded Sacca an Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for $2,500 for his potential contributions to the field.