Dr. Bela Julesz
Bela
Julesz passed away suddenly on December 31st.
Short Vita:
Bela Julesz, State of New Jersey Professor of Psychology,
Emeritus,
and Director of the Laboratory of Vision Research,Rutgers
University
Diploma, 1950 (Electrical Engineering), Technical University,
Budapest;
Ph.D., 1956, Hungarian Academy of Sciences;
(AT&T) Bell Laboratories,
1956-89.
Dr. Julesz taught and did research in communications systems for
several
years prior to 1956. Since joining Bell Laboratories, he has devoted
himself
to visual research, particularly depth perception and pattern
recognition.
He is the originator of the 
Random-dot Stereoimage technique and of the method of studying
texture discrimination by constraining second-order statistics. He has
written extensively in the area of visual and auditory perception, and
is author of Foundations of Cyclopean Perception (1971,
University
of Chicago Press), and a second monograph Dialogues
on Perception (1995, Bradford/MIT Press). Dr. Julesz was Head of
the
Sensory and Perceptual Processes Department from 1964 till 1982, and in
1983 became Head, Visual Perception Research Department.
In January 1989 after 32 years at Bell Laboratories he retired and
became a State of New Jersey Professor of Psychology and Director of
the
newly established Laboratory of Vision Research at Rutgers University.
He has been a visiting professor of experimental psychology at M.I.T.
and other universities.
In 1983 he received (for five years) the MacArthur Fellow Award
for his work in Experimental Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. He
was a Fairchild Distinguished Scholar at the California Institute of
Technology
from 1977 to 1979 and in 1987. Fellow, AAAS, OSA, and American Academy
of Arts and Sciences; Corresponding Member of the Goettingen Academy of
Sciences and Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In 1982 he was elected Neurosciences Associate of the Neurosciences
Institute for nine years. In January 1985 was awarded Dr. H. P.
Heineken
Prize by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
From 1985 through 1993 he was Continuing Visiting Professor at Caltech's
Biology Division during the winter semesters. In 1987 he was elected
member
of the National Academy of Sciences.
In
April 1989 he received the Karl Spencer Lashley Award by the American
Philosophical
Society and was elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental
Psychologists.
He is a member of the advisory board of the Santa
Fe Institute.