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Distinguished ACM Speaker:
John Tsotsos
Based in ON, USA
Professor Tsotsos joined York University as a
Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and as the Director of the Centre
for Vision Research in January 2000. Prior to joining York University,
John was Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science at the University of
Toronto. He received his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science, and MSc
and PhD degrees in Computer Science all from the University of Toronto. He
continued at UofT in 1980 as an Assistant Professor, cross-appointed to the
Department of Medicine (Cardiology), was promoted to Associate Professor with
tenure in 1985 and promoted to Professor in 1990. He was awarded 2 five-year
terms as Fellow of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR) in
the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Program from 1985 to 1995, and in the
second term was named the Canadian Pacific/Unitel Fellow. He was the
co-recipient of CITO’s (a Provincial Centre of Excellence) Innovation Award for
Leadership in Product Development in 1997 for the development of a product line
of computer vision algorithms inspired by his visual attention model. In
October of 2003 he was named the NSERC Tier I Canada Research Chair in
Computational Vision. In 2006 he was the recipient of the Canadian Image
Processing and Pattern Recognition Society Award for Research Excellence and
Service. He currently maintains Adjunct Professorships at the University of
Toronto in two departments, Computer Science and Ophthalmology. He has served
or serves on the editorial boards of the journals Image &
Vision Computing (North American Editor from 1998 – 2004 and then Editorial
Board Member until the present), Computational Intelligence (Associate Editor,
1986 – 2005), Computer Vision and Image Understanding (Area Editor, 1993
- present), and AI & Medicine (board member, 1987 – 89). Among his
many conference board memberships, he served as the General Chair for the IEEE
International Conference on Computer Vision 1999. Among his many scientific
publications are over 300 papers and 7 edited volumes, including one with
Laurent Itti and Geraint Rees, the encyclopedic volume Neurobiology of
Attention for Elsevier Press, 2005. Further details can be found at www.cse.yorku.ca/~tsotsos.
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