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Azriel Rosenfeld

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Azriel Rosenfeld · Technology & Engineering

What

Computer & information scientist

When

1931, New York City, United States — 2004, Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Azriel Rosenfeld is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Computer & information scientist

How & why

Azriel Rosenfeld was an American computer scientist widely regarded as a founder of computer image processing and computer vision, whose textbooks and hundreds of papers trained generations of researchers at the University of Maryland. He developed foundational methods in digital geometry and pattern recognition. Rosenfeld was an observant Jew and an ordained Orthodox rabbi as well as a leading scientist.

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Computer & information scientist

Source: Jinfo.org — JEWISH COMPUTER & INFORMATION SCIENTISTS