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Tyler C. Folsom |
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Philosophy |
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Tread lightly on the earth. Be truthful.
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Professional |
The 20th century was industrial, working for
several companies. This included QUEST Integrated, Inc. , a small company that
does contract research and development and builds electro-optic instruments for
industrial inspection. The 21st century is academic. I was on the Computer
Science faculty at DigiPen Institute of
Technology, focusing on how to program video games. As of summer 2006 I have
taken a position with UBC’s Thunderbird Robotics. I completed a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
under the late Prof. Robert Pinter at the University
of Washington in 1994. My dissertation looks at visual signal processing techniques of the
brain and uses these for a new machine vision method of finding primitive
features. Other research interests are neural networks, parallel programming,
image understanding, data modeling, and C/C++ programming for Windows and
Linux. Member of IEEE and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
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Personal |
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Happily married to Fran
Solomon for 25 years. We live in Seattle,
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Travels |
Have visited 60 countries around the world.
Most often Fran and I tour by bicycle. We enjoy exchanging home visits with
other couples and belong to Servas. I
speak fluent French and can get by in Spanish, Italian, Russian and German. I
have picked up smatterings of other languages along the way.
Fran and I each have a folding Bike Friday. It fits
inside a suitcase! Mine is green, with drop handle bars.
Our most recent trips were tours of teaching
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