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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. In the Internet frenzy of 1999–2000, he webcast David Bowie with this camera, live from Manhattan in mid-1999 — where he demonstrated it to his col-alum Sally Ride and to Neil Armstrong at a Board Meeting of space.com in 2000. At 16, based only on an annual anonymously-taken all-India entrance exam, nothing else — 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 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 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, including one for CCD cameras. After a talk at Bell Labs in 1993 that described three competing efforts — by teams from its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Departments over many years — to automatically authenticate signatures signed on signature pads such as ubiquitous today, he suggested that their state of the art, its equal error rate, could be improved by an order of magnitude, tenfold. When challenged to show how, he did, over two summer months. The President of Bell Labs, who'd been seeking his resignation for insubordination for obsessing over his book below, thereon left him alone, which led to FullView. Also for this, he won a Bell-Labs-wide competition on uses of a "chip" on a credit card. He was concurrently on the faculty of Princeton University in 1989, which led him to write A Guided Tour of Computer Vision, Addison-Wesley, 1993, a text used to teach, train, and qualify Ph.D. candidates in Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Computer Science ("CS"), as at Stanford. He's been recognized for his patents and publications; prevailed in every patent litigation to which he's been a party or an expert; and been invited to describe his research worldwide — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Technion, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA. He was Associate Editor of IEEE PAMI over 1994 – 98 and was elected Fellow of IEEE in 2004.
His dad, a
midshipman in WWII at 16, was court martialed in 1946 for the
Royal Indian Naval Mutiny, which
led to
India's independence. Another lineal ancestor,
Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837), who joined the
Sikh Army at 14 and rose to lead it, is
widely mythologized for driving
Afghan Rule from India to beyond the
Khyber Pass, building
a fort at its mouth
he died defending.
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