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Ellen Hildreth
Ellen Catherine Hildreth
is a professor of
computer science
at
Wellesley College
. Her
fields
are
visual perception
and
computer vision
. She co-invented the
Marr-Hildreth algorithm
along with
David Marr
.
She completed all of her
higher education
at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
. She earned a
Bachelor of Science
in Mathematics in 1977, a
Master of Science
from the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her
thesis
, "The Measurement of
Visual
Motion", won an
Honorable Mention
from the
Association for Computing Machinery
.
She is a
Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
and the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
.
Hildreth is married to
Eric Grimson
. The couple have two sons.