David G. Stork Stanford Visiting Scholar Home page for celebrations associated with the HAL 9000 computer and HAL's Legacy Books written and edited by David G. Stork Speechreading by Humans and Machines Cyberfest: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

David G. Stork is chief scientist at the Ricoh California Research Center and head of its Machine Learning and Perception Group, as well as consulting associate professor of electrical engineering and visiting scholar in psychology at Stanford University. A graduate of MIT and the University of Maryland, he has also been on the faculties of Wellesley College, Swarthmore College, Clark University, and Boston University. The breadth of his interests and contributions is indicated by his academic affiliations over the years: physics, mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, statistics, and electrical engineering. His principal interests are pattern recognition by humans and machines, and he has published numerous papers on these and closely related subjects. He holds several patents and sits on the editorial boards of several academic journals. He initiated and still leads a project to develop computer speechreading (lipreading) systems. He is coeditor of Speechreading by Humans and Machines and coauthor of The Physics of Sound, Seeing the Light: Optics in Nature, Photography, Color, Vision and Holography, and the forthcoming Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis (2nd ed.).