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Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he founded with Bell Labs in 2000 after inventing FullView's 360° camera there in 1995. With it, he webcast David Bowie performing in Manhattan in 1999, where in 2000, he demonstrated it to his Stanford co-alum Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong. At 16, based on an anonymously-taken all-India entrance exam — and that alone, to preclude tribalism, cronyism, puffery, and corruption — he skipped his senior year at St. Columba's School for the 240-odd freshman class at one of the then five Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). At IIT Kanpur, he won the First Prize for Academic Excellence in the Core Curriculum in 1981 and he was its Best Graduating Student in Electrical Engineering ("EE") in 1983, both with two others. He then received from Stanford University, on its inaugural ISL Fellowship, the M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) Degrees in EE. He was next a Principal Investigator ("PI") at Bell Labs Research, whose PIs have won 10 Nobel Prizes. After a talk there in 1993 that described three competing apps — developed by its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Departments over several years — to authenticate signatures signed on signature pads such as ubiquitous now, he suggested that these apps, their equal error rates, could be improved tenfold. When challenged, he showed how that summer — but only after wrapping up the book below. For this, the President of Bell Labs, who'd been seeking his resignation for insubordination, thereon afforded him unfettered freedom — which led to FullView — and in 1994, he won a Bell-Labs competition on uses of a "chip" on a credit card. In 1989, he was concurrently on the faculty of Princeton University, which led him to write A Guided Tour of Computer Vision (Addison-Wesley, 1993), a text used to qualify Ph.D. candidates in AI — as by Stanford U. He's been recognized for his patents and publications and been invited to describe his work worldwide — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Technion, TU Delft, IIT, HKU, and INRIA. He was an Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI over 1994 – 98 and elected a Fellow of IEEE in 2004.
His dad, a
midshipman
in WWII at 16, was court martialed in 1946 for the
mutiny
that
triggered
India's independence from
Britain. Another ancestor,
Hari Singh Nalwa
(1791–1837), who was Commander-in-Chief of the
Sikh Army
he'd joined at 14,
is
mythologized
for driving the
Afghan Empire
from
India
across the
Khyber Pass,
building
a fort at its mouth
he died defending.
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