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NREC 20th Anniversary : Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, SCS, CMU

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The Carnegie Mellon University  National Robotics Engineering Center is celebrating 20 years today, September 8, 2016.

Dr. Takeo Kanade
U.A and Helen W hitaker University Professor of Robotics and Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at
Carnegie Mellon University

Dr. Kanade received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Kyoto University, Japan, in 1974. After being on the faculty at
Department of Information Science, Kyoto University, he joined Computer Science Department and Robotics Institute in
1980. He became Associate Professor in 1982, a Full Professor in 1985, the U. A. and Helen W hitaker Professor in
1993, and a University Professor in 1998. He was the Director of the Robotics Institute from 1992 to 2004. He served as
the founding Chairman (1989-93) of the Robotics Ph. D. Program at CMU, probably the first of its kind in the world.
Dr. Kanade has worked in multiple areas of robotics, ranging from manipulator, sensor, computer vision, multi-media applications
and autonomous robots, with more thatn 200 papers on these topics. He has been the founding editor of International
Journal of Computer.
Dr. Kanade's professional honor includes: election to the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of IEEE, a Fellow of ACM,
and a Fellow of American Association of Artificial Intelligence; several awards including Joseph Engelberger Award, Yokogawa
Prize, JARA Award, Otto Franc Award, and Marr Prize Award. He recently won the prestigious 2016 Kyoto Prize for
Advanced Technology, citing his pioneering contributions to computer vision and robotics.

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