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Biography
Edward H. Adelson (born 1952) is an American neuroscientist currently the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Vision Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an Elected Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Education
Adelson attended Yale University and received bachelors degrees in physics and philosophy in 1974. He then attended the University of Michigan for his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, graduating in 1979. He was a postdoctoral fellow at NYU from 1979 to 1981, after which he joined RCA Laboratories as a staff scientist for five years. During this time he won the 1894 Adolph Lomb Medal from the Optical Society of America. He joined the faculty at MIT in 1987, first at the Media Lab before moving to the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1994. In 1992, he received the Rank Prize in Opto-electronics, and in 2005 he received the Longuet-Higgins Prize from the IEEE Computer Society. He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2006 and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. In 2013 he received the Helmholtz Award from the IEEE Computer Society.