Berthold Horn

Berthold Klaus Paul Horn (born December 8, 1943 in Teplice ) is an American computer scientist who deals with artificial intelligence and computer vision.

The family emigrated from Germany to South Africa after the Second World War. One of Berthold Horn's brothers is the poet Peter Horn .

Horn studied electrical engineering at the University of Witwatersrand (Bachelor 1965 with Derek S. Henderson), where he was a lecturer and worked as a consultant, for example in programs for tide forecasting for the South African Navy. He also went to the USA on behalf of Henderson to procure software for a project planned at the University of Witwatersrand for a time sharing operating system with Fortran compiler for an IBM 360. He continued his studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received his doctorate in 1970 from Marvin Minsky ( Shape from shading: a method for obtaining the shape of a smooth opaque object from one view ). He is Professor of Computer Science at MIT at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

For work on computer vision, he received the Rank Prize in 1989 and the Azriel Rosenfeld Lifetime Achievement Award from the IEEE in 2009 . Horn is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (1990). In 2002 he became a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering .

Fonts

• with Patrick Winston Lisp , Addison-Wesley 1981, 3rd edition 1989
• Robot Vision , MIT Press, McGraw Hill 1986
• Contributions to Winston (ed.) The psychology of computer vision , McGraw Hill 1975
• Editor with Michael J. Brooks Shape from shading , MIT Press 1989

Web links

• Homepage at MIT

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates of birth according to Who's who in Frontiers of Science and Technology , 1985
2. ↑ Horn Professor Derek S. Henderson and the Fourier transform , accessed from Horn's homepage on July 6, 2012