Azriel Rosenfeld
Computer scientist
Born on: February 19, 1931Died on: February 22, 2004
Aged: 73 years 3 days (876 months)
Nationality: 20
Birth Sign: Aquarius
Azriel Rosenfeld was an American Research Professor, a Distinguished University Professor, and Director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where he also held affiliate professorships in the Departments of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, and Psychology.
He was a leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis. Over a period of nearly 40 years, he made many fundamental and pioneering contributions to nearly every area of that field.
He wrote the first textbook in the field (1969); was founding editor of its first journal, Computer Graphics and Image Processing (1972); and was co-chairman of its first international conference (1987).
He published over 30 books and over 600 book chapters and journal articles, and directed nearly 60 Ph.D. dissertations.
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