Steve Mann was recognized as "The Father of The Wearable Computer", IEEE ISSCC, Feb. 7th, 2000.
"Steve Mann is the perfect example of someone... who persisted in his vision and ended up founding a new discipline."
-- -- Nicholas Negroponte, Founder, Director, and Chairman, MIT Media Lab
Mann is full professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto, and is the Chief Scientist of the Rotman School of Management's CD Lab. He is also the Chief Scietist of Meta (http://spaceglasses.com), recently closing a $23 million Series A funding round.
Prof. Steve Mann
(pictured here with EyeTap wearable computer)
Director, EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePi) Lab
Director, FL_UI_D Laboratory
ECE1766 (Personal Imaging) course announcement
List of Steve's research papers
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer Engineering Research Group
University of Toronto
10 Kings College Road; office = Room 2001; Mailstop S.F. B540
if mailing, use the mailroom (S.F. B540) in the mailing address.
Toronto, CANADA - M5S 3G4
email to username "mann", at the domain of "eecg.toronto.edu"
harmonic telegraph, telephone, phone, or whatever you like to call it:
(416) 946-3387,
fax: (416) 971-2326
Some of Steve Mann's publications that are available on the WWW:
Comparametric Equations (the mathematical theory of computer mediated reality)
http://computer.org/computer/backissu.htm (scroll down to the feature article of Feb.'97)
The
complete article
is also available from:
http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/ieeecomputer
See also: http://www.wearcam.org/chi97 and http://www.wearcam.org/personaltechnologies and http://www.wearcam.org/historical/
For a light overview of the invention, see: http://www.wearcam.org/judith_gaines_und.gif or if you want more resolution: http://www.wearcam.org/judith_gaines.jpg
Mathematical theory (video orbits) behind his "image compositing" work, see Sep.'97 issue of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/tip.ps.gz
A small gallery of images is located at http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/orbits/gallery.html and a brief description at http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/orbits/
Take a look at some other embodiments of his "WearComp" (wearable computer) invention (e.g. WearComp1, WearComp3, etc.): http://www.wearcam.org/steve5.jpg
Other pictures of Mann's "WearComp" invention as it has evolved over more than 20 years.
OTHER LINKS:
University of Toronto has one of the most active FPGA research groups anywhere: https://www.eecg.toronto.edu/EECG/RESEARCH/FPGA.htmlhttp://www.eecg.toronto.edu/~jayar/ (Jonathan Rose, one of the principal founders of the "transmogrifier" project,... an FPGA-based computational system)
Prof. Steve Mann University of Toronto Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, mailstop S.F. B540, 10 King's College Road; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; M5S 3G4 Tel. 416.946-3387 Fax. 416.971-2326