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Professor Accomplishments for January 2005
Patent, Publish and Profit Elishakoff Named Distinguished
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Professor Accomplishments for January 2005
Patent, Publish and Profit Elishakoff Named Distinguished
Professor in College of Engineering |
Dr. Bill Glenn, distinguished professor in the College of Engineering
and Computer Science, was the inventor of U.S. patent # 6,778,220 for
his invention relating to a color video camera system that can be utilized
for motion picture film origination. It also relates to an optical prefiltering
method and apparatus that can be used in conjunction with a color video
camera system. Dr. Glenn is the Director of FAU's Imaging Technology
Center and of the NASA Imaging Technology Space Center. Both specialize
in advanced imaging technology, including high-definition digital cameras,
wireless portable ultrasound systems, and high-definition displays.
He currently holds 122 U.S. issued patents (approximately half of which
have become commercial products) and has authored or co-authored more
than 105 technical papers in the area of imaging technology.
Dr. Isaac Elishakoff, FAU Professor of Mechanical Engineering
and preeminent authority in the field of vibrations, has been named
the J.M. Rubin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Structural Reliability,
Safety and Security. Dr. Elishakoff has made pioneering contributions
in several areas including random vibrations, free vibration and nonlinear
buckling of structures, structural reliability, safety factors and dynamic
stability of structures, among others. He has authored or co-authored
nine books and more than 300 papers in leading journals and conference
proceedings. He holds a Ph.D. from the Power Engineering Institute and
Technical University in Moscow and joined the FAU faculty in 1989 after
a teaching career that included 18 years at the Technion, Israel Institute
of Technology in Haifa. He has also taught at Abkhazian University (Georgia),
the University of Palermo (Italy), the Deft University of Technology
(the Netherlands), the University of Notre Dame and the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics
and of the Japan Society of the Promotion of Science.