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Peter Robinson (born 1952) is Professor of Computer Technology at the
University of Cambridge
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Computer Laboratory
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in England, where he works in the ''Rainbow Group'' on computer graphics and interaction. He is also a Fellow of
Gonville and Caius College
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
and lives in
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cambridge bec ...
.
Education
Robinson graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the
University of Cambridge
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in 1974 and continued with a year of post-graduate study in Mathematics before joining the
Computer Laboratory
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, where he was sponsored by the
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to work on Graphic Design with Computers under
Neil Wiseman
Neil Ernest Wiseman (19 May 1934 – 13 June 1995) was a British computer scientist.Nei ...
and graduated PhD in 1979.
Research
Robinson worked on computer-aided design systems for integrated circuits in the 1980s, undertaking the physical design of the video processor for early
BBC computers as a case study.
He continued with work on
self-timed (asynchronous) circuits
and his students Paul Cunningham and Steev Wilcox started
Azuro to exploit the ideas in designing low power integrated circuits.
The Rank Xerox Research Centre in Cambridge sponsored several of Robinson's research students in the 1990s to work on video cameras and projection as part of the user interface including Pierre Wellner's DigitalDesk, an early tabletop display featuring
tangible interaction and
augmented reality
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience that combines the real world and computer-generated content. The content can span multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be de ...
and
Quentin Stafford-Fraser
James Quentin Stafford-Fraser is a computer scientist and entrepreneur based in Cambridge, England. He was one of the team that created the first webcam, the Trojan room coffee pot. Quentin pointed a camera at the coffee pot and wrote the XCoff ...
's work leading to the
webcam
A webcam is a video camera which is designed to record or stream to a computer or computer network. They are primarily used in videotelephony, livestreaming and social media, and security. Webcams can be built-in computer hardware or peripheral d ...
.
Further work investigated augmenting paper documents
and high-resolution interactive tabletop displays
leading to the commercial nuVa system developed by
Thales
Thales of Miletus ( ; grc-gre, Θαλῆς; ) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, statesman, and pre-Socratic philosopher from Miletus in Ionia, Asia Minor. He was one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Many, most notably Aristotle, regarded him ...
.
More recently, Robinson has led a team working on
affective computing
Affective computing is the study and development of systems and devices that can recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human affects. It is an interdisciplinary field spanning computer science, psychology, and cognitive science. While some ...
.
This has included inference of mental states from facial expressions
non-verbal speech
and gestures
together with the expression of emotions by robots and cartoon avatars.
His YouTube video on ''The emotional computer''
has resulted in regular television and radio appearances
and his student
Rana el Kaliouby
Rana el Kaliouby ( ar, رنا القليوبي; born 1978) is an Egyptian-American computer scientist and entrepreneur in the field of expression recognition research and technology development, which is a subset of facial recognition designed t ...
founded
Affectiva
Affectiva is a software company that builds artificial intelligence. The company claims its AI understands human emotions, cognitive states, activities and the objects people use, by analyzing facial and vocal expressions. An offshoot of MIT Media ...
with
Rosalind Picard
Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962) is an American scholar and inventor who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups ...
to exploit the ideas commercially.
Robinson has supervised over thirty research students for PhDs.
References
External links
Peter Robinson's home pageat the
Computer Laboratory
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Computer Laboratoryweb pageat
Gonville and Caius College
Gonville and Caius College, often referred to simply as Caius ( ), is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1348, it is the fourth-oldest of the University of Cambridge's 31 colleges and one of th ...
Gonville and Caius College
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1952 births
Living people
British computer scientists
Fellows of the British Computer Society
Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Fellows of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Academics of the University of Cambridge
Members of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
People educated at King's College School, London