Duane Thomas Williams
(d u a n e @ c m u . e d u)

EDUCATION:

1971-80 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia, Pa.
Graduate Studies: Philosophy (ABD) and Computer Science

1968-71 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON, Houston, Texas
BA: Philosophy, 1969

1965-68 LAMAR STATE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Beaumont, Texas
Mathematics major; Physics minor

EXPERIENCE:

1/87-present Carnegie-Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Sr. Research Programmer, Intelligent Machining Workstation (IMW) and Intelligent Bending Workstation projects. Supervisor: David Alan Bourne. Network communication language, distributed geometrical modeling, and planning.

9/84-12/86 Carnegie-Mellon University, Robotics Institute, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Research Programmer, Cell Management Language (CML) Project. Supervisor: David Alan Bourne. Operator interface generation program for CML applications.

1980-84 Carnegie-Mellon University, Computer Science Dept., Pittsburgh, Pa.,
Research Programmer, Image Understanding Systems (IUS) Project. Supervisor: Prof. Takeo Kanade. Projects included: Phoenix--a multispectral image segmentation program; Coordtrans--n-order best-fit transformations between sets of planar points; 3Dseg--image segmentation from range data; Classify--edge classification (e.g., shadow, occluding) based on product moment correlation coefficients; Paint--maps grey tones from aerial images onto arbitrary views of a 3D scene model.

1979-80 Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Computer Science
Worked for Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy on computer analysis of medical images, extracting anatomical structures of the brain from metabolic information from positron emission tomography (PET) images. Designed and implemented a programmable, real-time, 3D human body animation (Bubbleman) for the VG3404 vector graphics processor.

1978-79 Software Consultant, University of Pennsylvania , Moore School Computing Facility
Advised faculty and graduate students.

1975-76 Visiting Lecturer, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
Formal Logic and Introductory Philosophy courses.

1969-75 Teaching Fellow, Univ. of Houston and Univ. of Pennsylvania
Formal Logic and Introductory Philosophy.

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