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Azriel Rosenfeld, Director of the Center for Automation Research

Azriel Rosenfeld

Azriel Rosenfeld: List of publications from the Bibliography Server on Database Systems & Logic Programming

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 		Azriel Rosenfeld is distinguished university professor and director of the Center for Automation Research at the University of Maryland and holds affiliate professorships in the departments of Computer Science and Psychology and the College of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Columbia University, a doctor of Hebrew literature degree from Yeshiva University, and two honorary doctorates. An ordained rabbi, Rosenfeld is widely regarded as the world's leading researcher in the field of computer image analysis; he wrote the first textbook in the field, was founding editor of its first journal and co-chairman of its first international conference.

Prof. Rosenfeld has published over twenty-five books and contributed over five hundred book chapters and journal articles. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the Association for Computing Machinery, the Washington Academy of Sciences, the Machine Vision Association of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He has won the latter's premier academic achievement awards, as well as those of the IEEE Computer Society's Committee on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society and the International Association for Pattern Recognition.