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March 24, 2009

When computers look at images


Considering our turn toward images, here's an interesting-sounding presentation this Thursday:

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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:15:22 -0400
From: Shirley Wersinger
Subject: Lecture at the Memorial Art Gallery

LECTURE AT THE MEMORIAL ART GALLERY

Thursday, March 26 at 7 pm at the Memorial Art Gallery, David G. Stork
speaks on "When Computers Look at Art: Image Analysis in Humanistic Studies
of the Visual Arts." Stork is chief scientist at Ricoh Innovations and
consulting professor of statistics at Stanford University. His lecture, for
non-scientists, examines works by such masters as Jackson Pollock, Vincent
van Gogh, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling and Lorenzo Lotto.

Cosponsored by the Memorial Art Gallery and the RIT Department of Computer
Science and included in Gallery admission.

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Posted by      Morris E. at 5:23 AM EDT

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