Steven Tanimoto, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering (and Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering) received the A.B. degree from Harvard in 1971 and the Ph.D. from Princeton in 1975. He joined the University of Washington faculty in 1977 after two years teaching at the University of Connecticut. In 1982-83 he was a Visiting Professor at the Institut de Programmation, University of Paris-VI in France and a visiting scholar at Linköping University, Sweden. Since 1981 he has also served as an adjunct member of the Department of Electrical Engineering. In 1989-90 he was a Visiting Scientist at Kobe University (Japan), Thinking Machines Corporation (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and Linköping University, Sweden. In June of 1989 and again in June of 1992 he was a visiting scientist at the Institut de Research et d'Enseignement Superieur Aux Techniques de l'Electronique (IRESTE) of the University of Nantes, France.
In addition to assisting with various conferences, he has recently set up a home page for IMAGE'COM 96, which is a conference devoted to image processing and communication. The conference will take place in Bordeaux, France, 20-24 May, 1996.
Professor Tanimoto's research interests include computer analysis of images (particularly using parallel processors), educational technology, visual programming, and artificial intelligence. He currently directs an NSF-sponsored project, Mathematics Experiences Through Image Processing whose objective is to develop personal computer software that motivates 8-th grade students to study mathematics.
He has written or coauthored over 70 papers, co-edited the book ``Structured Computer Vision''; he is the author of a textbook entitled ``The Elements of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction Using LISP'' published in 1987 (with Common Lisp editions in 1990 and 1995) and its accompanying software. He is currently working on a book on the subject of parallel computation in image processing.
Tanimoto organized the 1992 IEEE Computer Society International Workshop on Visual Languages, held in Seattle, and he served as General Chair for the 1993 meeting in Bergen, Norway. He also served as program chair for the 1994 International Conference on Pattern Recognition Subconference on Parallel Computation and as the co-program chair for the 1994 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. He has served on the program committees for numerous conferences on image processing and pattern recognition and was general chairman of the IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Computer Architecture for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence in 1987. He currently serves on the steering committee for the IEEE Symposia on Visual Languages. He has served on the editorial boards for the journals ``Pattern Recognition'', ``Journal of Visual Languages and Computing'', and ``CVGIP: Image Understanding''. He served as the editor-in-chief of ``IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence'' from 1986 to 1990. In addition to these research-related activities, Tanimoto served as Chair of the College of Engineering Educational Policy Committee 1991-92, as Vice Chair of College Council 1992-93 and as its Chair in 1993-94. He was elected a Fellow of the IEEE in 1995.
Outside of computer science, Steve Tanimoto enjoys playing jazz and classical piano music.