Edward Adelson | |
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| Born | Edward Howard Adelson |
| Alma mater | Yale University University of Michigan |
| Awards | Adolph Lomb Medal (1984) Rank Prize in Opto-electronics (1992) IEEE Computer Society Longuet-Higgins Prize (2005) (2010) IEEE Computer Society Helmholtz Award (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Vision science |
| Institutions | NYU RCA Laboratories MIT MIT Media Lab |
| Thesis | The response of the rod system to bright flashes of light (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | John Jonides |
| Doctoral students | Eero Simoncelli William T. Freeman Roland William Fleming |
Edward Howard Adelson (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist who is currently the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1]