Dave's Academic Bio

David M. McKeown, Jr. is a Principal Research Computer Scientist in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University and has been a member of the research faculty since 1986. He received a B.S. degree in Physics and an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. Prior to joining the faculty he was a researcher at Carnegie Mellon from 1975, a Research Associate at George Washington University and a Member of the Technical Staff at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt Maryland (1974--1975), and an Instructor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Union College (1972--1974).

His research interests in computer science are in the areas of image understanding for the automated analysis of remotely sensed imagery, digital mapping and image/map database systems, computer graphics, and artificial intelligence.

Mr. McKeown leads the Digital Mapping Laboratory (MAPSLab) and has been the principal investigator on research programs in computer vision and advanced distributed simulation sponsored by the U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Laboratories, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Defense Mapping Agency, and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. He is the author of over 45 papers and technical reports and is an active consultant for government and industry in these areas. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Kluewer Academic.

Mr. McKeown is a member of ACM, IEEE, AAAI, the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Sigma Xi. He was the co-chair of Intercommission Working Group II/III on Digital Photogrammetric Systems of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (1992-1996). He is currently Chair of ISPRS Working Group II/6, "Integration of Image Understanding into Cartographic Systems" (1996-2000). He was Conference Chairman for three SPIE Workshops on "Integrating Photogrammetric Techniques with Scene Analysis and Machine Vision" held in Orlando, Fla, in 1993, 1995, and 1997. He was also an organizer an ISPRS Intercommission Workshop on the "Role of Models in Automated Scene Analysis" held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1995.

In April, 1996 he was presented the Photogrammetric Award (Fairchild) by the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing" in recognition of his sustained contributions in computer science research appled to digital mapping". In July, 1996 he was presented with the Schermerhorn Award by the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing for his work "in promoting scientific research and technical exchange meetings in the area of computer vision and photogrammetry".