Woodrow W. Bledsoe

Bledsoe, W. W. 1961a. Lethally Dependent Genes Using Instant Selection, Technical Report PRI 1, Panoramic Research, Inc., Palo Alto, California.

Bledsoe, W. W. 1961b. The Use of Biological Concepts in the Analytical Study of Systems, Technical Report PRI 2, Panoramic Research, Inc., Palo Alto, California. Also 1961. Presented at ORSA-TIMS National Meeting, San Francisco, California, November 10.

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Engineering started to show interest in face recognition in the 1960’s. Oneof the ﬁrst researches on this subject was Woodrow W. Bledsoe. In 1960,Bledsoe, along other researches, started Panoramic Research, Inc., in PaloAlto, California. The majority of the work done by this company involved AI-related contracts from the U.S. Department of Defense and various intelligence agencies. During 1964 and 1965, Bledsoe, along with Helen Chanand Charles Bisson, worked on using computers to recognize human faces. Because the funding of these researches was providedby an unnamed intelligence agency, little of the work was published. He continued later his researches at Stanford Research Institute. –

<a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=%22panoramic%20research%2C%20inc.%22%201960%20automated%20reasoning%20essays&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&ved=0CCcQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fciteseerx.ist.psu.edu%2Fviewdoc%2Fdownload%3Fdoi%3D10.1.1.57.3396%26rep%3Dre">Automated Reasoning: Essays in Honor of Woody Bledsoe by Robert S. Boyer</a>

“Twenty-five years ago I had a dream, a daydream if you will. A dream shared with many of you. I dreamed of a special kind of computer, which had eyes and ears and arms and legs, in addition to its “brain.”

When I awoke from this daydream, I found that we didn’t have these things but we did have some remarkable computers, even then, so I decided then and there to quit my job and set about spending the rest of my life helping bring this dream to reality.”

(p.57, Bledsoe, 1986)

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