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Here is a selection of many of the people who have been involved in this project at one time or another. 
 
 
 
Matt Aken worked on software tools and also handled many administrative tasks. Omead Amidi was responsible for starting the project and developed the architecture for the vision machine.
Jeff Brown is an undergraduate who has been responsible for the development of the video display hardware. Jeff Byrne designed both the hardware and software for the Host Interface processor.
Randy Casciola designed the first hardware boards for the RVM machine. Mei Han developed applications for the RVM.
Jimmy Hollifield is an undergraduate electrical engineer who has  Toru Ishikura made major contributions to the RVM architecture and to the early hardware design of the system.
Takeo Kanade is the Director of the Robotics Institute and is in overall charge of the project. Larissa Kasian is the project secretary and occasional board assembly technician.
Qifa Ke is a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science who has developed some interesting image processing algorithms for us. Masa Kikuchi worked on both the early hardware and software design for the system.
Rich Madison completed his Phd thesis on the subject of automatic code optimization for vision algorithms.  He now works for the US Air Force. Sam Miller worked part-time on hardware while completing his undergraduate degree.
Bill Ross is the manager of the RVM project. Tsuneo Sakuma is a software engineer who has been working on many of the design tools as well as on software to support the new TriMedia DSP module.
Randy Warner has worked on applications as well as some of the software design tools. Ray Weymer heads up the hardware design effort.
Shinsaku Yamamoto is an electrical engineer who has been responsible for the design of the video digitizer module.  He has also helped in the development of several new computer vision algorithms.