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2001 – Ruzena R Bajcsy
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For outstanding research contributions in several areas
including computational anatomy, and active sensing and perception, resulting in
major impacts in robotics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence.
Press Release
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Dr. Bajcsy's work has been in the areas of machine perception, image processing, artificial
intelligence and medical imaging resulting in extraordinary impact on
the field of computer science. Her pioneering work in the 1970's was instrumental in
shaping the field of computational anatomy. Much of the impetus in physics-based modeling
today can be traced back to her early work. She established the paradigm of active sensing and
perception in the 1980's. This work brought together the then disparate fields of control and
computer vision and had a major impact on both those fields and, in turn, on the field of
artificial intelligence. She has also had a profound influence on the field of robotics.
Dr. Bajcsy has served on numerous boards and advisory panels and most recently served as the
Assistant Director for CISE at NSF where she was responsible for the Information Technology
Research Initiative. She was instrumental in convincing the policy community that the ubiquity
of computing goes beyond laptops and workstations to embedded, reactive computers tied to
actuators, sensors and active networks and in persuading that community of the importance of
basic computer science to the progress of all of science.
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