John M. Hollerbach
| John M. Hollerbach | |
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| Born | Marktheidenfeld, Germany |
| Residence | Salt Lake City, Utah |
| Citizenship | American |
| Fields |
Robotics Haptic technology Medical robotics Telepresence |
| Institutions |
IBM Massachusetts Institute of Technology McGill University University of Utah |
| Alma mater |
University of Michigan Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | A Study of Human Motor Control Through Analysis and Synthesis of Handwriting (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | David Marr |
| Known for |
Year of the Robot initiative Utah/MIT dextrous hand |
| Influenced |
Christopher G. Atkeson Ronald Fearing Ian Hunter |
| Notable awards |
CIFAR Fellow (1988) IEEE Fellow (1996) IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Distinguished Service Award (2012) |
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Website http://www.cs.utah.edu/~jmh/ |
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John Matthew Hollerbach is a professor of computer science and research professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Utah. He is the editor of The International Journal of Robotics Research, a Senior Editor of Presence: Teleoperators & Virtual Environments, and a Governing Board member of the electronic journal Haptics-e.
Hollerbach was born in Marktheidenfeld, Germany to Hungarian refugees who met and married in a displacement camp. He and his family lived in a priest's attic in Germany for five years before emigrating to Detroit as refugees.
He received his BS in chemistry in 1968 from the University of Michigan but was interested in the growing computer industry and spent an extra year taking computer science courses to receive an MS in mathematics. Following graduation, he worked at IBM as a chemist but took courses in artificial intelligence and computer science as part of an education program with Syracuse University. He then applied to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked with Patrick Winston in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory on modeling solid objects and received his SM in computer vision in 1975. He continued at MIT in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science PhD program to study the acquisition of fine motor skills for use in robotics. He obtained special permission to have David Marr as his thesis advisor because Marr was a research scientist and not yet a faculty member at the time. As a result, Hollerbach was technically Marr's first student, although Shimon Ullman was the first student to graduate under him. Hollerbach received his PhD from MIT in 1978.
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