Background
Grimson was born in 1953 in Estevan, Saskatchewan where his father, William, was the principal of Estevan Collegiate Institute, the local high school, and his mother an eminent musician and teacher of piano performance and music theory.
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Eric Grimson
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The family later moved to Regina where he attended Campbell Collegiate and the University of Regina, graduating in 1975 with a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics. In 1980, he received his Doctor of Philosophy in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Career
Prior to his appointment as Chancellor in March 2011, Grimson was head of the university"s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering. He is a native of Estevan, Saskatchewan. His doctoral dissertation, Computing shape using a theory of human stereo vision, was on computer vision, a field which would become the focus of his research career.
An expanded version of the dissertation was published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press in 1981 as From Images To Surfaces: A Computational Study of the Human Early Vision System, which was endorsed by Tomaso Poggio and Noam Chomsky.
After completing his Doctor of Philosophy, Grimson worked as research scientist the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and joined the university"s faculty in 1984. He eventually rose to Bernard Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering and Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
In February 2011, he was appointed Chancellor of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, succeeding Phillip Clay, and took up his post the following month. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (2000), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2004) and Association for Computing Machinery (2014).
Achievements
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2014. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Fellow. Foreign contributions to computer vision, and medical image computing. 2004. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Fellow. Foreign contributions to surface reconstruction, object-recognition, image database indexing and medical applications. 2000. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fellow. Foreign significant contributions to the theory and application of computer vision, ranging from algorithms for binocular stereo, surface interpolation and object recognition to deployed systems for computer-assisted surgery.
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Canadian
Awards
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AAAI Fellow (2000) IEEE Fellow (2004) ACM Fellow (2014) 2014. ACM Fellow. For contributions to computer vision, and medical image computing. 2004. IEEE Fellow. For contributions to surface reconstruction, object-recognition, image database indexing and medical applications. 2000. AAAI Fellow. For significant contributions to the theory and application of computer vision, ranging from algorithms for binocular stereo, surface interpolation and object recognition to deployed systems for computer-assisted surgery.AAAI Fellow (2000) IEEE Fellow (2004) ACM Fellow (2014) 2014. ACM Fellow. For contributions to computer vision, and medical image computing. 2004. IEEE Fellow. For contributions to surface reconstruction, object-recognition, image database indexing and medical applications. 2000. AAAI Fellow. For significant contributions to the theory and application of computer vision, ranging from algorithms for binocular stereo, surface interpolation and object recognition to deployed systems for computer-assisted surgery.