Background
Riseman, Edward M. was born on August 15, 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry and Matilda (Sandler) Riseman.
Electrical engineering educator
Riseman, Edward M. was born on August 15, 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Harry and Matilda (Sandler) Riseman.
Edward Riseman received his Bachelor of Surgery degree in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson College in 1964. He moved to Cornell University and received Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in electrical engineering in 1966 and 1969, respectively.
Riseman was a pioneer in the field of computer vision and artificial intelligence who made significant contributions to image database and content-based image retrieval, including the design of one of the first knowledge-based image understanding systems that handled very complex natural images. He was a co-author on the landmark paper on a four-step process for extracting straight lines from intensity images. Education Shortly after receiving his Doctor of Philosophy, Edward Riseman joined the faculty of University of Massachusetts Amherst as an Assistant Professor.
He was promoted to a full professor in 1978, and served as the chairman of the Computer Science department from 1981 to 1985.
During his tenure at the University of Massachusetts, Riseman was the advisor to 38 Doctor of Philosophy graduates.
Riseman was a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)), and a member of the Pattern Recognition Society.
Married; children: Sarah, Seth.