Author bio
Thad Starner
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 (electronic mail: testarne@media.mit.edu). Mr. Starner is a doctoral student in the Perceptual Computing Section at the MIT Media Laboratory and a United States Air Force Laboratory Graduate Fellow. He received a B.S. in computer science and a B.S. in brain and cognitive science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991. He worked in the Speech Systems Group at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN) before completing his master's degree from the MIT Media Laboratory in February 1995. Mr. Starner is in his fourth year of incorporating wearable computing in everyday life. His present research interests include augmented memory, augmented reality, intellectual collectives, and alternative-power wearable computers. His work includes a single-camera computer system that recognizes American Sign Language, a high-accuracy on-line cursive handwriting recognizer, a large database face recognizer, and several augmented environments.
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