Background
Preston, Kendall was born on October 22, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kendall and Dorothy Fletcher (Allen) Preston.
(It is with great pleasure that I present this fourth vol...)
It is with great pleasure that I present this fourth vol ume in the series "Advanced Applications in Pattern Recognition." It would be difficult to find two authors better versed in the design and application of parallel image processing systems, due to both their own many years of pioneering in the field and their encyclopedic knowledge of what is going on in uni versity and industrial laboratories around the world. The monograph is unique in its parallel presentation of orthogonal and hexagonal dissections, and the wealth of graphic illustration of algorithmic procedures for processing and analyz ing images in the various known implementations of parallel im age-processing architectures. This volume should find a place on the bookshelf of every practitioner of pattern recognition, image processing, and compu ter graphics. Morton Nadler General Editor vii PREFACE This book endeavors to introduce the reader to the subject of cellular logic and cellular automata and is devoted particu larly to those parts dealing with the manipulation of pictorial data. The study of cellular automata owes much to the pioneer ing work of John von Neumann during the 1950s. Von Neumann was interested in general problems in the behavior of computing structures and was immensely impressed by the complexity and performance of the human brain, which he felt must point to wards successful designs for automatic computing machines.
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Preston, Kendall was born on October 22, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Kendall and Dorothy Fletcher (Allen) Preston.
Bachelor of Arts cum laude, Harvard University, 1950; Master of Science, Harvard University, 1952.
Member technical staff, Bell Tel. laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1952-1960;
senior staff scientist, Perkin-Elmer Corporation, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1961-1974;
professor electrical engineering and bioengineering, Carnegie-Mellon U., Pittsburgh, since 1974;
professor radiation engineering, Graduate School Public Health, U. Pittsburgh, 1977-1991;
chief engineer, Kensal Cons., 1980-1992;
president, Pathology Imaging Corporation, since 1986;
president, Kensal Corporation, since 1993. Chairman International Optical Computing Conference, Zurich, Switzerland, 1974, conference automatic cytology Engineering Foundation, New York City, 1971-1972, conference Coherent Radiation Systems, 1973, conference Comparative Productivity of Non-invasive Techniques for Medical Diagnosis, 1976. United States chairman United States-Japan Seminar on Digital Processing of biomedical Images, Pasadena, California, 1975,Japan-United States Workshop Parallel Processing, Tokyo, 1979.
Faculty North Atlantic Treaty Organization Advanced Study Institute on Digital Image Processing and Analysis, Bonas, France, 1976. Member of faculty International School Medical Sciences, Erice, Italy, 1988. Member Technology Audit Board, Inc., New York City, since 1976.
(the book is a second set presenting papers from a series ...)
(It is with great pleasure that I present this fourth vol...)
Chairman Ecclesia, Young Men’s Christian Association, Summit, New Jersey, 1958-1960. Chairman health services industry committee Automation Research Council, American Automatic Control Council, New Jersey, 1973-1976. Member National Science Foundation Fact Finding Team on Egyptian Scientific Instrumentation, 1974-1975.
With artillery Army of the United States, 1946-1947. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (life, chairman Connecticut PTGEC 1966-1967). Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biological Engineering Society Great Britain, biomedical Engineering Society (charter), Harvard Engineers and Scientists (president students 1952), New York Academy Science, Cum Laude Society.
Married Sarah Malcolm Stewart, August 23, 1952. 1 child, Louise.