Friday, December 7, 2007

Alum and Michigan State Professor, Dr. George C. Stockman '66 To Address Students at Graduate Commencement Exercises in December at ESU

Dr. George C. Stockman '66, ESU graduate and professor of computer science and engineering at Michigan State University, will be the keynote speaker for the East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania's graduate commencement exercises which will be held at 7:00 p.m. on Friday, December 14 in the Abeloff Center for the Performing Arts.

Dr. Stockman's expertise and interests include computer vision, particularly object representation and recognition, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, data structures and algorithms. His most recent research is in human face modeling related to identification, augmented reality and tele-presence and, creation of virtual animal organs for veterinary student education. Measuring human body pose in an automobile for research on comfort and safety is among several other areas of research he has also undertaken.

Dr. Stockman earned a bachelor of science degree in mathematics education at ESU (1966), an MAT in math education from Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), a master of science in computer science from Penn State University (State College, Pa., 1971); and a doctorate in computers science from the University of Maryland (College Park, Md., 1977). He has been active in many professional organizations, including a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASHEE), a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) where he is also a distinguished lecturer and former chair of the IEEE Intelligent Systems Focus Group, a member of the Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI) Technical Committee; and a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Dr. Stockman has many academic publications and presentations to his credit. He has published scholarly articles and presented research findings in the disciplines of waveform parsing systems, object recognition, three-dimensional pose computations from multiple views, and in 2001 he co-authored a book titled Computer Vision. He has also served as the associate editor for Pattern Recognition, reviewer for Computer Vision and Image Understanding, and editor for a special issue on CAD-based computer vision education for Computer Image and Vision Understanding. In addition, he has been invited to make numerous presentations before state, regional and national associations and organizations on topics related to the fields of computer science and computer vision.

Mr. Stockman and his wife, Ida, have been married for more than 30 years and reside in Okemos, Mich. Mrs. Stockman is a retired distinguished faculty member at Michigan State University, and is well-known for her pioneering work on language and development in African-American English.