- EDUCATION:
- 1971-80 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Philadelphia, Pa.
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Graduate Studies: Philosophy (ABD) and Computer Science
- 1968-71 UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON,
Houston,
Texas
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BA: Philosophy, 1969
- 1965-68 LAMAR STATE COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY,
Beaumont,
Texas
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Mathematics major; Physics minor
- EXPERIENCE:
- 1/87-present Carnegie-Mellon University,
Robotics Institute,
Pittsburgh, Pa.
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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.
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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.,
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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
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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
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Advised faculty and graduate students.
- 1975-76 Visiting Lecturer,
Swarthmore College,
Swarthmore, Pa.
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Formal Logic and Introductory Philosophy courses.
- 1969-75 Teaching Fellow,
Univ. of Houston and
Univ. of Pennsylvania
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Formal Logic and Introductory Philosophy.
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