BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT:
(large font version for visually impaired or easy reading on a WearComp)
Prof. Steve Mann has written 139 research publications (39 journal
articles, 37 conference articles, 2 books, 10 book chapters, and 51 patents),
and has been the keynote speaker at 24 scientific and industry symposia
and conferences and has also been an invited speaker at 52
university Distinguished Lecture Series and colloquia.
He is also a hydraulist, as well as the inventor of the
hydraulophone, a musical instrument that is similar to a woodwind
instrument but uses pressurized water instead of air. He is also
a sculptor who builds hydraulophones as public art installations.
Steve Mann is considered
by many to be the inventor of
WearComp (wearable computer)
and WearCam (eyetap camera and reality mediator).
He is currently a faculty member at University of Toronto,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Dr. Mann has been working
on his WearComp invention
for more than 20 years,
dating back to his high school days in the 1970s.
He brought his inventions and ideas to the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991,
and is
considered
to have brought the seed
that later become the MIT Wearable Computing Project.
He also built the world's first
covert fully functional WearComp with display and camera concealed
in ordinary eyeglasses in 1995, for the creation of his
award winning documentary
ShootingBack.
He received his PhD degree from MIT in 1997 for work including the introduction
of Humanistic Intelligence.
He is also inventor of
the Chirplet Transform,
a new mathematical framework for signal processing, and of
Comparametric Equations,
a new mathematical framework for computer mediated reality.
Mann was the one who both proposed, to the IEEE Computer Society,
and was Publications Chair, of
the first IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC97).
He can be reached via e-mail at
mann
@
eecg.toronto.edu or by tapping
into his left eye, at:
http://www.eyetap.org
or
http://glogger.mobi