Robert B. Pinter
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| name = Robert B. Pinter
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| birth_date = August 13, 1937
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
| death_date = {{death-date and age|December 11, 2001|August 13, 1937}}
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| fields = Biomedical engineer
| workplaces = University of Washington
| alma_mater = Marquette University
Northwestern University
| doctoral_advisor = Richard W. Jones
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Robert Bartholomew Pinter was an American biomedical engineer and authority on signal processing in the insect visual system.
Education
He received a BS in electrical engineering from Marquette University in 1957{{Cite web|url=http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/winter06/cn-memoriam.shtml|title=We Are Marquette|date=14 April 2022 }} and an MS from Northwestern University in 1960. He received his PhD in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from Northwestern University in 1964, with a thesis entitled A Study of the Dynamic Properties of the Generator Potential of the Limulus Photoreceptor.{{Cite web|url=http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=126433|title=Robert Pinter - the Mathematics Genealogy Project}} His MS and PhD were both under Richard W. Jones.
Career
Pinter has joined the University of Washington in 1964 and held joint appointments with the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Zoology. He also held appointments as visiting professor of psychology at Dalhousie University,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
His research interests were mathematical and electronic models of the visual and nervous system and linear and nonlinear control theory.
Books by Pinter
- Bahram Nabet and Robert B. Pinter, Sensory Neural Networks: Lateral Inhibition, Taylor & Francis Group, 1991, {{ISBN|0-8493-4278-3}}
- Robert B. Pinter and Bahram Nabet, Nonlinear Vision, Taylor & Francis Group, 1992, {{ISBN|0-8493-4292-9}}
See also
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Notes
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References
- George S. Smith, Early History of the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, 2005 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070824104639/http://www.ee.washington.edu/about/centennial/smith_history_1969.pdf |date=August 24, 2007 }}
External links
- {{MathGenealogy|126433}}
- [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/indices/a-tree/p/Pinter:Robert_B=.html Pinter at dlbp]
- [http://gita.grainger.uiuc.edu/iop/JournalArticle.asp?issn=0954-898X&volume=7&issue=2&artnum=020&lang= Article by Pinter]
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