From: Dan Swift <djs@vrg.com>
Organization: Vision Research Graphics
To: Color and Vision Network <cvnet@lawton.ewind.com>
Subject: Re: Bob Smith
Hi Hoover,
I am writng to let the vision community know that Robert Allen Smith
died recently after a brief illness.
Bob did some of the pioneering work in the areas of spatial-frequency
and temporal-frequency adaptation, starting when he was a graduate
student at MIT. Indeed his work on adaptation and temporal-frequency
channels was published as early as 1970. Bob's accomplishments include
the discovery of motion-contingent disparity aftereffects. After MIT,
Bob set up a research cooperative in New Hampshire and became a research
professor at the University of New Hampshire, founding the Vision
Research Laboratory there. Over the course of his career, Bob
effectively used the techniques of adaption, masking and summation to
determine the properties of a variety of detectors in the visual system.
Bob was one of the founders of Vision Research Graphics, a company that
designs and builds equipment for vision scientists. He continued as one
of the owners until his recent illness.
-- Dan Swift, PhD Department of Behavioral Sciences Vision Research Graphics Univ. of Michigan-Dearborn 99A Madbury Road Dearborn, MI 48128 Durham, NH 03824 313-593-5610 603-868-2090 313-593-5552 (fax) 603-868-1352 (fax) dswift@umich.edu djs@vrg.com
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