Whitman Richards

Whitman Richards
Born 1932
Died 16 September 2016
Newton, Massachusetts
Alma mater Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scientific career
Institutions Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thesis Some Requirements for a Uniform Color Space (1965)
Doctoral advisor Hans-Lukas Teuber
Doctoral students Aaron Bobick
Donald D. Hoffman
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Alex Pentland
Joshua Tenenbaum

Whitman Albin Richards (193216 September 2016) was professor emeritus of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013.

He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy[1] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1953, and becoming one of the first four PhD graduates of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1965.[2]

References

  1. "Obituary - WHITMAN A. RICHARDS". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
  2. "Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84". MIT News. Retrieved 27 December 2017.


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