John Canny

John F. Canny
Canny in 2013
Alma materUniversity of Adelaide
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known forCanny edge detector
AwardsMachtey Award
Scientific career
FieldsComputer scientist
InstitutionsBerkeley
Doctoral studentsMing C. Lin
Dinesh Manocha

John F. Canny (born in 1958) is an Australian computer scientist, and Paul E Jacobs and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering in the Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. He has made significant contributions in various areas of computer science and mathematics, including artificial intelligence, robotics, computer graphics, human-computer interaction, computer security, computational algebra, and computational geometry.

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