Ellen Hildreth

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Ellen Hildreth
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Marr–Hildreth algorithm
Spouse Eric Grimson [1]
Children2
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Computer science
Cognitive science
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wellesley College
Thesis The Measurement of Visual Motion  (1983)
Doctoral advisor Shimon Ullman

Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College. [2] Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr. [3]

She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery. [4]

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence [5] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. [4]

Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons. [1]

Selected works

References

  1. 1 2 MIT News Office (10 February 2011), Professor Eric Grimson named next chancellor: Current head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science to succeed Phillip L. Clay, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  2. ↑ Ellen C. Hildreth webpage at Wellesley
  3. ↑ Marr, D.; Hildreth, E. (29 February 1980), "Theory of Edge Detection", Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 207 (1167), London: 187–217, Bibcode:1980RSPSB.207..187M, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020, PMID   6102765, S2CID   2150419
  4. 1 2 "Curriculum Vita Ellen Catherine Hildreth" (PDF). Wellesley University. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Current AAAI Fellows". Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  6. ↑ Martinez-Conde, Susana; Macknik, Stephen L.; Heeger, David J. (April 2018). "An Enduring Dialogue between Computational and Empirical Vision" . Trends in Neurosciences. 41 (4): 163–165. doi:10.1016/j.tins.2018.02.005. PMID   29602332.
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