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Vic (Vishvjit Singh) Nalwa is President of FullView, which he cofounded in 2000 with Bell Labs, where he invented the FullView camera in 1995, which he demonstrated to Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride in Manhattan in 2000. At 16, based on an annual anonymously-taken nationwide exam in India — and nothing else, to preclude tribalism, puffery, and corruption — he skipped his senior year at St. Columba's School for the 240-odd freshman class at one of the then 5 Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). At IIT Kanpur, he won the First Prize for Academic Excellence in the Core Curriculum in 1983 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 sole inaugural ISL Fellowship, the M.S. (1985) and Ph.D. (1987) Degrees in EE. He was then a Principal Investigator at Bell Labs Research, whose staff has won 10 Nobel Prizes, including one for CCD cameras. After a talk there in 1993 that described 3 competing efforts spanning several years — by teams from its Neural Networks, Statistics, and Robotics Departments — to automatically authenticate signatures signed on signature pads such as ubiquitous today, he suggested that the state of the art of these efforts, its equal error rate, could be improved by an order of magnitude, tenfold. When challenged to show how, he did, over 2 summer months, but only after wrapping up the book below. The President of Bell Labs, who'd been seeking his resignation for insubordination for focusing on this book, thereon afforded him unfettered freedom instead, which led to FullView. Also for this, in 1994, he won a Bell-Labs-wide 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 teach, train, and qualify Ph.D. students in Artificial Intelligence ("AI") and Computer Science ("CS"), as at Stanford University. He's been recognized for his patents and publications, prevailed in every patent litigation to which he's been a party, and been invited to describe his research worldwide — as by UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, CMU, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Google, 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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