Thomas Binford
Thomas Oriel Binford has been a researcher in
Binford received a Ph.D. in
From 1970 to 2000 he was a professor of computer science at Stanford University; in 2000 he retired to become an emeritus professor.[3] While at Stanford, Professor Binford supervised more than 40 PhD theses while leading research in computer vision, artificial intelligence, medical image processing, radar image understanding, robotics, industrial inspection, and manufacturing; notable students of Binford's include Rodney Brooks and Jitendra Malik.[2]
Since retiring from active research at Stanford, Binford has founded and is chairman and chief technology officer of Read-Ink Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a company in Bangalore, India specializing in online handwriting recognition software.[3][4][5] In 1994 Thomas Binford was elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence "for his role as a founding father in the field of computer vision and model-based perception in robotics; and for his many contributions to the fields".[6]
References
- New York Times.
- ^ a b Thomas Oriel Binford at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- ^ a b Bagchi, Shrabonti (August 16, 2010), "From Bay Area to Bangalore", Daily News & Analysis.
- ^ Nelson Vinod Moses, Meet The Techpreneurs, Businessworld. Accessed December 4, 2010
- ^ Reading a Bright Future Archived 2011-10-02 at the Wayback Machine, Dataquest, March 17, 2007. Accessed December 4, 2010
- ^ ELECTED AAAI FELLOWS, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Accessed December 4, 2010