Dr. Serge Belongie:
Serge Belongie was born in Sacramento, California, in 1974. He
received the B.S. degree (with honor) in Electrical Engineering from
the California Institute of Technology in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at U.C. Berkeley
in 2000. While at Berkeley, his research was supported by a National
Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. He is also a
co-founder of Digital Persona, Inc., and the principal architect of
the Digital Persona fingerprint recognition algorithm. His research
interests include computer vision, pattern recognition, machine
learning and digital signal processing.
Dr. David G. Stork:
Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of the Ricoh California Research
Center as well as Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Visiting Lecturer in Computer Science at Stanford University. A former
distinguished lecturer of the ACM, Dr. Stork sits on the editorial boards
of five journals, and has published numerous peer-reviewed papers and book
chapters as well as five books, including most recently Pattern
Classification (2nd ed.) with R. Duda and P. Hart (Wiley, 2000). He is
the creator and host of the forthcoming PBS television documentary "2001:
HAL's Legacy," based on his book HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and
reality (MIT Press).