About Richard O. Duda
Born 1936. Richard O. Duda is an engineer, mathematician and university teacher, known for Expert systems and Hough transform.
Richard O. Duda is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University renowned for his work on sound localization and pattern recognition. He lives in Menlo Park, California.
Education Duda received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 and 1959, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.
Career
While at SRI International, Duda and Peter E. Hart were the authors of "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", originally published in 1973. This classic text is a widely cited reference, and the first edition was in print for over 25 years until being superseded by the second edition in 2000.
Duda is an IEEE Fellow and a AAAI Fellow.
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Who is Richard O. Duda?
American mathematician
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Richard O. Duda was born in 1936.
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Richard O. Duda is an engineer, mathematician and university teacher.
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Richard O. Duda is known for Expert systems and Hough transform.
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