Ellen Hildreth

Ellen Hildreth
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for Marr–Hildreth algorithm
Spouse(s) Eric Grimson[1]
Children 2
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]

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, London, 207 (1167): 187–217, doi:10.1098/rspb.1980.0020
  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.
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