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In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Harry Van Trees

Tama Moni — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:41:54 +0000

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Harry Van Trees Tama Moni Wed, 01/18/2023 - 13:41

Professor Emeritus Harry Van Trees

Harry Van Trees, a distinguished and award-winning researcher, textbook author, member of the National Academy of Engineering, and �鶹��Ƶ Professor of Information Technology and Electrical and Systems Engineering passed away on December 29, 2022.

Van Trees was born in Kansas City on June 27, 1930. He went on to graduate first in his class from West Point and earned an Sc.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology after a stint in the army. He joined the MIT Electrical Engineering Department, where he studied signal processing. He made significant contributions to detection and estimation theory, optimum array processing, and Bayesian estimation of random processes. He is regarded as a founder of the detection and estimation theory body of knowledge. His impressive CV may be found here.

Later in his career, he would go on to be the founding director of �鶹��Ƶ's Center of Excellence in Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I). �鶹��Ƶ Professor Emeritus Alexander Levis noted, “His vision for such a center was inspired by his brief service as Air Force Chief Scientist and then as the first Assistant Secretary at DoD for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence. He recognized that rapidly evolving information technology would change fundamentally Command and Control and that both basic and applied research were very much needed. Indeed, thirty-five years later, Command and Control has now been recognized as a defining pillar of national security.”

Others on the �鶹��Ƶ campus also paid tribute to his lasting legacy. “Harry Van Trees was a brilliant engineer, educator, mentor, and colleague who had a remarkable life and career in academia, government, and industry,” added Kristine Bell, Affiliate Associate Professor in the �鶹��Ƶ Statistics Department. “His books on Detection and Estimation Theory and Array Processing have educated so many engineers and inspired so many important research findings in the last 45 years. There is no doubt that our world would look different without his contributions. I was so privileged to have worked with him. He was a wonderful man who cared deeply for his family, but also for his colleagues, and his community. I will miss him tremendously.”

According to his official obituary, his passing was unexpected but fortunately, although in the hospital, he was able to spend his last week with Diane, his beloved wife of 69 years, and his six surviving children, Stephen, Mark, Katie, Tricia, Harry, and Julia. 

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Claudio Cioffi-Revilla named 2019 AAAS Fellow for lifetime contributions to science and technology

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Peter Winant

admin_alpha — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 23:30:01 +0000

Peter Winant admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:30

Associate Professor, School of Art, CVPA - RETIRED

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-8385
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2050E
Mail Stop: MSN: 1C3

Email: pwinant@gmu.edu

Biography

Peter works on individual projects and in collaboration with other artists. For twenty years, as a founding member of the collaborative group, Workingman Collective, and as a core member of the group, Art Attack, he has engaged in making pieces that question the domain and currency of personal authorship, the context of location and the creative process. The groups’ works have been exhibited/performed/intervened in settings as diverse as PS.1, Artist’s Space, parking lots, abandoned houses and public spaces, and in public and alternative galleries and spaces in Berlin, Prague, Slovakia, Marseilles, Warsaw, Krakow, Chicago, Washington, New York, Butte Montana and the North Carolina Museum of Art. Recent commissions include works for the US Embassy in Monrovia, Liberia and for Macerich’s development for Tysons Corner, Virginia. Peter has been a three time recipient of CEC Artslink grants. Peter’s personal work has ranged from forged steel, abstractly painted figurative sculpture, to “unarchitecture” structures of conventional building materials, to compositions of painted, fallen branches. His work is in private collections throughout the United States. Peter reviews Washington area fine art exhibitions as a panelist on public television station WETA’s Around Town. He is also a Senior Advisor for Integrative Teaching International, a national group whose focus is on the development of visual art foundation programs for the 21st century.

Selected Reviews/Articles/Best Bets

New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Village Voice, The Washington Post, City Paper, Sculpture, Boston Herald, Boston Phoenix, Boston Globe, Art and Antiques, Kunstforum, OO Nachrichten, Taglich Alles, Standard, NPR/All Things Considered, Slovakia Today, USIA/Voice of America, WRC/NBC News, Flash Radio

Gallery Representation

Workingman Collective is represented by Hemphill Fine Arts, 1515 14th St., Washington D.C.

Degrees

MFA, Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington
BS, Fine Arts, with a Concentration in Sculpture, Skidmore College

Specialist Areas:

Sculpture
Senior Project

Harold Linton

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Harold Linton admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:27

Full Professor, School of Art, CVPA

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-4615
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2010
Mail Stop: 1C3

Email: hlinton@gmu.edu

Personal Websites

Portfolio Design

Biography

Harold Linton, Full Professor, has served as Director of the School of Art from 2005 – 2013, College of Visual and Performing Arts at �鶹��Ƶ, Fairfax, Virginia. Previously, Harold served as Chairman of the Department of Art at Bradley University, 1998 – 2005 developing scholarships, endowment, professional lecture and exhibition programs, internet technology initiatives, international study programs, and new undergraduate and graduate art and design studio concentrations. In 2001, he received the highest endowed award for professional excellence at Bradley University, Caterpillar Professor of Art, and simultaneously for the Department of Art, the William Rainey Harper Award for Department Excellence. In 2004, he was the recipient of a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study cultural life and contemporary social issues in South Africa. He subsequently authored a photo-essay exhibition catalog with introduction by Barack Obama entitled, “The Children of South Africa”, as a fundraising and awareness program that traveled throughout the United States.

Having been associated with the College of Architecture and Design at Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan, 1974 – 1998, he served as Assistant Dean of the College of Architecture from 1991 – 1998 and as Chairperson of their new Department of Art and Design. At Lawrence Tech, he initiated the first Bachelor of Fine Arts degree program in Architectural Illustration in North America and directed the college and its design programs through successful accreditation. His research on color in 3d-design was recognized by an invitation to serve as co-founder and Professor of the first Master of Arts degree program in Color Design in Europe at the University of Art and Design UIAH, Helsinki, Finland, 1996 – 1997.

Linton is the author of nineteen books and numerous journal articles on design, drawing, architecture, and color. Several published works have become adopted texts throughout the US, Asia, and Europe. Harold has served as visiting lecturer in design at over 100 schools of art and architecture. Included among these are Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York; the Harvard Graduate School of Design; Cambridge, Massachusetts; The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.; Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois; the University of Michigan, School of Art and Architecture, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Linton’s Portfolio Design first published in 1996 by W.W. Norton and Company, New York, is now in its fourth full-color edition. Linton is the recipient of more than thirty citations from leading art and design schools noting his work as a prized resource. In its various iterations and editions, more than 200 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad have adopted Portfolio Design. Linton’s work on color is also the subject of articles and interviews in the New York Times, Metropolis Magazine, Departures Magazine, and numerous journals.

He serves NASAD as a visiting accreditation evaluator of higher education programs throughout the United States. His artwork can be found in numerous public, private and museum collections. He is the recipient of the national competition first prize award and commission for an 18’-0” relief construction entitled “Fortunes of Nature” for the Richard M. DeVos Center, GVSU, Grand Rapids, Michigan, featured on the cover of “Interior Architecture of China” July edition 2007. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in Painting, Yale University, studies with Al Held, Lester Johnson, and Bernard Chaet, and in Architecture and Planning at Yale with Howard Brown, Associate to R. Buckminster (Bucky) Fuller; and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting, Syracuse University, with studies in design with Lee Ducell, sculptural designer for Minoru Yamasaki.

Degrees

MFA, Painting, Yale University
BFA, Painting, Syracuse University

Specialist Areas:

Drawing
Visual Voices Colloquium

Suzanne Carbonneau

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Suzanne Carbonneau admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:24

Professor, Director of InterArts, School of Art, CVPA

Contact Information

Phone: 703-993-2190
Campus: Fairfax
Building: Art and Design Building
Room 2027
Mail Stop: 1C3

Email: scarbonn@gmu.edu

Biography

Suzanne Carbonneau is an arts essayist, critic and historian whose writings have appeared in The Washington Post, the New York Times, and other publications. She founded and directed the NEA Arts Journalism Institute, and she has served as Critic-in-Residence at the American Dance Festival and at the Joyce Theater. Carbonneau is a Scholar-in-Residence at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, and has also served as resident scholar at the Bates Dance Festival. She regularly writes and lectures for the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University and is a Professor at �鶹��Ƶ. Her critical biography of choreographer Paul Taylor will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Carbonneau is a MacDowell Fellow, a Yaddo Fellow, a Bogliasco Fellow, and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Degrees

PhD, Performance Studies, New York University

Specialist Areas:

Aesthetics
Art Writing Seminar

Daniel Carr

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Daniel Carr admin_alpha Tue, 10/20/2015 - 19:24

Professor Emeritus, Statistics

Contact Information

Email: dcarr@gmu.edu

Personal Websites

Professional Webpage

Biography

Professor Daniel Carr is known for his contributions to the field of statistical graphics. These contributions include the creation of new graphics designs and dynamic visualization software. The challenges that motivated the designs have come from a variety of fields such as genomics, proteomics, life sciences, and environmental monitoring.

Carr’s statistics career started in 1976 at Battelle Pacific Northwest National Laboratories. At first, he was involved in the analysis of animal experiments, calibration of measurement devices, and modeling of monitoring data. In the 1980s, he worked with a small team of statisticians, computer scientists, and computer engineers on the Analysis of Large Data Sets project. The research publications and presentations brought visibility.

Carr was appointed chair-elect when the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association was created in 1986. He continued to serve the section for many years in roles such as Program Chair and editor of the graphics section in the Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics newsletter. Carr was elected ASA Fellow in 1992.

After joining �鶹��Ƶ in 1990, Carr interacted with visionary colleagues and researchers at federal agencies. A 1992 collaborative NSF proposal yielded a virtual reality laboratory in the Center for Computational Statistics. On sabbatical at the National Cancer Institute, he was a member of a team that developed the usability-assessed State Cancer Control Profiles website. Team members received NIH merit awards for their contributions to cancer control planning. Carr has created and taught statistical graphics and visualization courses at the 400 to 800 levels, served on numerous dissertation committees and seen 11 of his PhD students graduate.

Research

2014 - 2015: Uncertainty in Spatial Date: Identification Visualization and Utilization. Funded by the University of Texas at Dallas.

2008 - 2010: Curriculum Design in Data Sciences. Funded by National Science Foundation.

2005 - 2008: Visual Analytic Tools for Networks and Graphs with Attention Given to Data Synthesis and Evaluation. Funded by Office of Naval Research.

Research Interests

Data mining

Statistical graphics

Knowledge visualization

Data exploration

Analysis of massive data sets

Degrees

PhD, Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
MS, Statistics, Oregon State University
MEd, Counselling, Idaho State University
BA, Mathematics, Whitman College