Herbert Freeman

Herbert Freeman ( born December 13, 1925) is an American computer engineer and computer scientist.

Freeman graduated from Union University in New York with a bachelor 's degree in 1946 and from Columbia University with a master's degree in 1948 and his doctorate in 1956. From 1948 to 1958 he was Head of Advanced Studies in Engineering at the Sperry Corporation (then Sperry Gyroscope ) and 1959/60 he was there in charge of data processing. 1958/59 he was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1960 to 1975 he was a professor of electrical engineering at New York University, where he chaired from 1968 to 1973 the faculty. 1966/67, he was a visiting professor at the ETH Zurich. 1975 to 1985 he was a professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and from 1985 at Rutgers University. 1985-1990 he was the Director of The Center for Computer Aids for Industrial Productivity.

In 1973 he was a visiting professor at the University of Pisa and 1982 at Stanford University. He was also a visiting professor at the Technion.

Freeman built at Sperry 1953 SPEEDAC computer. Later he worked on computer graphics, pattern recognition and image processing. In the 1980s he was a pioneer in the automatic placement of marks on cards (Automatic Label Placement) and founded the company maptext.

In 1999 he received the Computer Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computer Society. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Association for Computing Machinery and was Guggenheim Fellow. In 1994 he received the KS Fu Prize of the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

He has been married since 1955 and has three children.