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Steven Tanimoto's Home Page; Steven Tanimoto, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering;(and Adjunct Professor of Electrical;Engineering) received the A.B. degree from;Harvard in 1971 and the Ph.D. from Princeton in 1975. He joined the;University of Washington faculty in 1977 after two years teaching at;the University of Connecticut. In 1982-83 he was a Visiting Professor;at the Institut de Programmation, University of Paris-VI in France and;a visiting scholar at Linköping University, Sweden. Since 1981 he has;also served as an adjunct member of the Department of Electrical;Engineering. In 1989-90 he was a Visiting Scientist at;Kobe University (Japan), Thinking Machines Corporation (Cambridge,;Massachusetts) and Linköping University, Sweden. In June of 1989;and again in June of 1992 he was a visiting scientist at the;Institut de Research et d'Enseignement Superieur Aux Techniques;de l'Electronique (IRESTE) of the University of Nantes, France.; In addition to assisting with various conferences, he has;recently set up a home page for;IMAGE'COM 96, which is a conference devoted to image processing;and communication. The conference will take place in Bordeaux, France,;20-24 May, 1996.;Professor Tanimoto's research interests include computer analysis of;images (particularly using parallel processors), educational technology,;visual programming, and artificial intelligence. He currently;directs an NSF-sponsored project,;Mathematics Experiences Through;Image Processing; whose objective is to develop personal computer software;that motivates 8-th grade students to study mathematics.;He has written or coauthored over 70 papers, co-edited the;book ``Structured Computer Vision''; he is the author of a;textbook entitled ``The Elements of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction;Using LISP'' published in 1987;(with Common Lisp editions in 1990 and 1995) and its accompanying;software.;He is currently working on a book on the subject of;parallel computation in image processing.;Tanimoto organized the 1992 IEEE Computer Society International;Workshop on Visual Languages, held in Seattle, and he served;as General Chair for the 1993 meeting in Bergen, Norway.;He also served as program chair for the 1994 International Conference;on Pattern Recognition Subconference on Parallel Computation and;as the co-program chair for the 1994 IEEE Computer Society Conference;on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.;He has served on the program;committees for numerous conferences on image processing and pattern;recognition and was general chairman of the IEEE Computer Society;Workshop on Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Machine;Intelligence in 1987.;He currently serves on the steering committee for the;IEEE Symposia;on Visual Languages.;He has served on the editorial;boards for the journals ``Pattern Recognition'',;``Journal of Visual Languages and Computing'',;and ``CVGIP: Image Understanding''.;He served as the editor-in-chief of ``IEEE;Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence'';from 1986 to 1990. In addition to these research-related activities,;Tanimoto served as Chair of the College of Engineering;Educational Policy Committee 1991-92, as Vice Chair of;College Council 1992-93 and as its Chair in 1993-94.;He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995.;Outside of computer science, Steve Tanimoto enjoys playing jazz and;classical piano music.;