Alex Pentland
Alex Paul "Sandy" Pentland (born 1951) is an American computer scientist, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and serial entrepreneur.
Alex "Sandy" Pentland | |
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| Born | 1951 (age 72–73) Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Social physics, wearable computing, computational social science, computer vision |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Stanford University, MIT |
| Thesis | Visual Inference of Shape: Computation from Local Features (1982) |
| Doctoral advisor | Whitman Richards |
| Doctoral students | Deb Roy Irfan Essa Rosalind Picard Trevor Darrell Tanzeem Choudhury Nathan Eagle |
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