Ivan Edward Sutherland is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer,widely regarded as a pioneer of computer graphics. His early work in computer graphics as well as his teaching with David C. Evans in that subject at the University of Utah in the 1970s was pioneering in the field. Sutherland,Evans,and their students from that era developed several foundations of modern computer graphics. He received the Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery in 1988 for the invention of the Sketchpad,an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering,as well as the National Academy of Sciences among many other major awards. In 2012,he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology for "pioneering achievements in the development of computer graphics and interactive interfaces".
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is a private research university in Rochester,New York. It was founded in 1829.
Lenna is a standard test image used in the field of digital image processing starting in 1973,but it is no longer considered appropriate by some authors. It is a picture of the Swedish model Lena Forsén,shot by photographer Dwight Hooker,cropped from the centerfold of the November 1972 issue of Playboy magazine. The continued use of the image has attracted controversy,on both technical and social grounds,and many journals have discouraged or banned its use. Forsén herself has said "It's time I retired from tech."
Irving Stoy Reed was an American mathematician and engineer. He is best known for co-inventing a class of algebraic error-correcting and error-detecting codes known as Reed–Solomon codes in collaboration with Gustave Solomon. He also co-invented the Reed–Muller code.
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology (RIT) is a state-government-owned engineering college in the Indian state of Kerala,located 14 km away from Kottayam. The college was founded in 1991 by the Government of Kerala,and has been affiliated with the APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University since the latter was founded in 2015.
Yale Nance Patt is an American professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Ernest Cockrell,Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering. In 1965,Patt introduced the WOS module,the first complex logic gate implemented on a single piece of silicon. He is a fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the Association for Computing Machinery,and in 2014 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
John G. Webster was an American electrical engineer and a founding pioneer in the field of biomedical engineering. In 2008,Professor Webster was awarded the University of Wisconsin,College of Engineering,Polygon Engineering Council Outstanding Instructor Award. In 2019,the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers awarded him its James H. Mulligan Jr. Educational Medal for his career contributions. Professor Webster died on March 29,2023.
The Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) is the engineering college at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The college is home to all of RIT's engineering programs except for software engineering,which is part of the B. Thomas Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences. Entering the 2023-24 academic year,the student body consisted of 2,947 students,with 400 graduate students. About 23% of the students were female.
William Wallace Destler is an American university professor and administrator. In 2017 he retired after having served for exactly 10 years as the 9th president of the Rochester Institute of Technology. He held the position from July 1,2007,succeeding Albert J. Simone.
Fawwaz T. Ulaby is Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and formerly the Founding Provost and Executive Vice President of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and R. Jamieson and Betty Williams Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan.
The Rochester Institute of Technology of Dubai is a satellite campus of Rochester Institute of Technology,New York,USA,in Dubai,United Arab Emirates. The college is located in the Dubai Silicon Oasis and started offering part-time graduate courses in Fall 2008. In 2009,the university began its full-time graduate program. RIT Dubai's first graduating class was in 2010,with the graduation ceremony taking place in Rochester,NY. In 2010,a full-time undergraduate program was started as part of the university's planned expansion. In the fall of 2011,RIT Dubai moved its campus to a new premises to accommodate the growing student body. By 2019,RIT plans to expand the campus to 1,000,000 square feet (93,000 m2) to provide facilities for 4,000 students.
Leah H. Jamieson is an American engineering educator,currently the Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. Jamieson was a founder of the Engineering Projects in Community Service program (EPICS),a multi-university engineering design program that operates in a service-learning context. She is a recipient of the Gordon Prize. From 2006-2017,she served as the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering at Purdue.
Alan Conrad Bovik is an American engineer,vision scientist,and educator. He is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin (UT-Austin),where he holds the Cockrell Family Regents Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering and is Director of the Laboratory for Image and Video Engineering (LIVE). He is a faculty member in the UT-Austin Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,the Machine Learning Laboratory,the Institute for Neuroscience,and the Wireless Networking and Communications Group.
Shrikanth Narayanan is an Indian-American Professor at the University of Southern California. He is an interdisciplinary engineer–scientist with a focus on human-centered signal processing and machine intelligence with speech and spoken language processing at its core. A prolific award-winning researcher,educator,and inventor,with hundreds of publications and a number of acclaimed patents to his credit,he has pioneered several research areas including in computational speech science,speech and human language technologies,audio,music and multimedia engineering,human sensing and imaging technologies,emotions research and affective computing,behavioral signal processing,and computational media intelligence. His technical contributions cover a range of applications including in defense,security,health,education,media,and the arts. His contributions continue to impact numerous domains including in human health,national defense/intelligence,and the media arts including in using technologies that facilitate awareness and support of diversity and inclusion. His award-winning patents have contributed to the proliferation of speech technologies on the cloud and on mobile devices and in enabling novel emotion-aware artificial intelligence technologies.
Subhasis Chaudhuri is an Indian electrical engineer and former director at the Indian Institute of Technology,Bombay. He is a former K. N. Bajaj Chair Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering of IIT Bombay. He is known for his pioneering studies on computer vision and is an elected fellow of all the three major Indian science academies viz. the National Academy of Sciences,India,Indian Academy of Sciences,and Indian National Science Academy. He is also a fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers,and the Indian National Academy of Engineering. The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research,the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research,awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology,one of the highest Indian science awards,in 2004 for his contributions to Engineering Sciences.
Santosh Kurinec is an IEEE fellow and a professor of Electrical &Microelectronic Engineering at Kate Gleason College of Engineering in Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). She is an Indian American electronic engineer specializing in electronic materials and devices. She is a former IEEE Electron Devices Society distinguished lecturer. In 2018,she was inducted into the Women in Technology International (WITI) Hall of Fame.
Moeness G. Amin is an Egyptian-American professor and engineer. Amin is the director of the Center for Advanced Communications and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Villanova University.
Vishal Monga is an Indian American electrical engineer,researcher and academic. He is a professor of Electrical Engineering at the Pennsylvania State University.
Ramalingam "Rama" Chellappa is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor,who works at Johns Hopkins University. At Johns Hopkins University,he is a member of the Center for Language and Speech Processing,the Center for Imaging Science,the Institute for Assured Autonomy,and the Mathematical Institute for Data Sciences. He joined Johns Hopkins University after 29 years at The University of Maryland. Before that,he was an assistant,associate professor,and later,director,of the University of Southern California's Signal and Image Processing institute.
