Alex Pentland
American academic and entrepreneur (born 1951) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
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Alex "Sandy" Pentland | |
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Born | 1951 (age 72ā73) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
Alma mater | University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Known for | Social physics, wearable computing, computational social science, computer vision |
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Institutions | Stanford University, MIT |
Thesis | Visual Inference of Shape: Computation from Local Features (1982) |
Doctoral advisor | Whitman Richards |
Doctoral students | Deb Roy Irfan Essa Rosalind Picard Trevor Darrell Tanzeem Choudhury Nathan Eagle |
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