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September 10, 2005
Dr. Peter Will, USC/Information Sciences Institute Fellow and Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science, and Astronautics and Spacecraft Engineering, 7/27/05
After a distinguished 30-year career in research and R&D management with IBM, Schlumberger, and Hewlett Packard, Dr. Peter Will joined the USC/Information Sciences Institute in 1992 as Director of the Networking and Communications Division. He is currently an ISI Fellow and Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering, Materials Science, and Astronautics and Spacecraft Engineering.
Dr. Will’s research career has focused mainly on robotics and image processing. He invented structured light for vision, did the first digital rectification of Landsat images, conceived the project and led the team that produced the IBM robot that went on sale in 1982, led the team that built the first working solid modeling software, and produced the configuration space technique. At ISI he was Principal Investigator on MEMS multi-robot chips for micro-assembly, co-founded USC's laboratory for Molecular Robotics, and was Principal Investigator and the inventor of CONRO, the precursor to Superbot.
Dr. Will has published over 100 papers and holds 12 U.S. patents with several in the application stage. He is at present a member of NASA's MARS Technology Review Board and NIST's Systems Integration Division Review Panel. Dr. Will is a former member of DARPA's ISAT group and the Computer Science and Technology Board of the NRC, and was awarded the Joseph E. Engelberger Medal in Robotics in 1990.
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