Ruzena Bajcsy
Ruzena Kucera Bajcsy (born May 28, 1933 in Bratislava , Czechoslovakia ) is an American computer scientist.
Live and act
Bajcsy comes from a Jewish family and grew up with her sister as an orphan, as most of the relatives died in the Holocaust. She received her doctorate in electrical engineering from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava in 1967, where she was an assistant professor from 1964 to 1967, and received her doctorate in computer science from Stanford University under John McCarthy in 1972 (Computer Identification of Textured Visual Scenes). From 1972 she was Assistant Professor, from 1977 Associate Professor and from 1984 Professor at the University of PennsylvaniaFrom 1985 to 1990 she headed the Faculty of Computer Science and was director of the General Robotics Active Sensory Perception Lab (GRASP, General Robotics and Active Perception), which she founded in 1978. Electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, computer scientists and cognitive scientists worked together on an interdisciplinary basis. She is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley , and was Director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Science (CITRIS) there from 2001 to 2005. She is also in the School of Medicine and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
She was visiting scholar in Copenhagen, at Queen's University (Kingston) , in Pisa and Japan. She also headed the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate of the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2001.
It deals with artificial intelligence and cognitive science, robotics, computer vision, pattern recognition and image processing in medicine (for example, with computed tomography images). In an interview, she described her most important work as the concept of Active Perception from the 1980s, the combination of signal processing and control technology. In her own words, she set the motto of the psychologist James J. Gibson: we don't just see, we observe, we don't just touch, we feel ( we do not only see, we look; we do not only touch, but we feel ) Engineering, particularly with the aim of building autonomous robots.
She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Science and, since 2005, the American Philosophical Society . She is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery , the IEEE, and the AAAI .
Awards
In 2001 she received the ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award (for outstanding research contributions in several areas including algorithmic anatomy, active sensors and perception that have had a major impact on computer vision, robotics and artificial intelligence ), the Benjamin Franklin Medal for computer science and cognitive science and in 2009 2013 the IEEE Robotics and Automation Award. She also received the von Neumann Award from the IEEE. She is an honorary doctorate from the University of Ljubljana .
Web links
- Homepage
- Biography in the Robot Hall of Fame
- Oral History Interview 2002
- Cathy Davidson, Interview with Ruzena Bajcsy , Hastac, January 27, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
- ↑ Ruzena Bajcsy in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
- ↑ HASTAC, January 2016, see web links
- ↑ Member History: Ruzena Bajcsy. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 16, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
- ↑ Laudation, quoted from ACM Awards for Bajcsy
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bajcsy, Ruzena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bajcsy, Ruzena Kucera |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bratislava |