Whitman Richards

{{Short description|Psychologist}}

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| birth_date = 1932

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| death_date = 16 September 2016

| death_place = Newton, Massachusetts

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| work_institutions = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| alma_mater = Massachusetts Institute of Technology

| doctoral_advisor = Hans-Lukas Teuber

| thesis_title = Some Requirements for a Uniform Color Space

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| thesis_year = 1965

| doctoral_students = Aaron Bobick
Donald D. Hoffman
Rajesh Kasturirangan
Alex Pentland
Joshua Tenenbaum
Emanuel Todorov

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Whitman Albin Richards (1932–16 September 2016) was professor of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013.

He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy{{cite web|title=Obituary - WHITMAN A. RICHARDS|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=181542869|website=The Boston Globe|accessdate=27 December 2017}} and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1953, and becoming one of the first four PhD graduates of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1965.{{cite web|title=Professor Emeritus Whitman Richards dies at 84|url=https://news.mit.edu/2016/professor-emeritus-whitman-richards-dies-1017|website=MIT News|date=17 October 2016 |accessdate=27 December 2017}}