Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he cofounded with Bell Labs in 2000, after inventing FullView's 360° camera there in 1995. With it, he broad­cast Chris Evert playing Martina Navratilova on ESPN in 1998 and he web­cast David Bowie per­form­ing in Manhattan in 1999 — where he social­ized it with Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride at a Board Meeting of space.com in 2000.

At 16, based on an anony­mous­ly-taken all-India entrance exam — and 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 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 Information Systems Laboratory Fellow­ship — an M.S. (1985) and a Ph.D. (1987) in EE.

He was next a Principal Investigator at Bell Labs Research, whose staff has won 10 Nobel Prizes. After a talk there in 1993 that des­crib­ed a multi-year competition bet­ween its Neural Net­works, Stat­istics, and Rob­ot­ics Dep­art­ments to auto­mat­ic­ally verify sig­nat­ures sign­ed on sig­nat­ure pads, he sugg­est­ed he could improve their state of the art ten­fold. When chall­eng­ed to show how, he did, with an app that summer. Bell Labs' Presi­dent, who'd been seeking his res­ig­nat­ion for in­sub­ord­inat­ion, there­on afford­ed him un­fett­ered free­dom instead, which led to FullView. He also won a Bell-Labs comp­et­it­ion for this app in 1994.

In 1989, he con­curr­ently taught at Princeton University, which led him to write A Guided Tour of Computer Vision (Addison-Wesley, 1993) — a text used to teach and qualify Ph.D. cand­id­ates in AI and CS, as at Stanford University. Recog­niz­ed for his publications and patents, he's been invited to describe his research world­wide — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UBC, Technion, TU Delft, IIT Delhi, HKU, and INRIA SA. He was an Asso­ciate Editor of IEEE PAMI in 1994 – 98 and elected Fellow of IEEE in 2004.

His dad, a mid­ship­man in WWII at 16, was court mart­ialed in 1946 for the Indian Naval Mutiny that triggered India's ind­ep­end­ence from Britain in 1947. His lineal ancestor, Hari Singh Nalwa (1791–1837) — who rose to lead the Sikh Army he'd joined at 14 — is widely myth­olog­ized for driving the Afghan Empire from India to beyond the Khyber Pass, building a fort at its mouth he died defend­ing.

Site Map  ·  Home

About  ·  Technology  ·  Applications  ·  Products  ·  Gallery

©1999– FullView, Inc. · All rights reserved. · help@fullview.com