Richard O. Duda

Richard O. Duda
Nationality	American
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Pattern classification and scene analysis Expert systems Hough transform
Awards	IEEE Fellow AAAI Fellow
Scientific career
Fields	Electrical Engineering
Institutions	University of California, Davis San Jose State University Syntelligence Fairchild Semiconductor University of Texas, Austin SRI International

Richard O. Duda is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University renowned for his work on sound localization and pattern recognition. He lives in Menlo Park, California.

Education

Duda received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1958 and 1959, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962.

Career

While at SRI International, Duda and Peter E. Hart were the authors of "Pattern Classification and Scene Analysis", originally published in 1973. This classic text is a widely cited reference, and the first edition was in print for over 25 years until being superseded by the second edition in 2000.

Duda is an IEEE Fellow and a AAAI Fellow.

See also

• Expert systems
• Pattern recognition
• Hough transform