Robert B. Pinter

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birth_date = August 13, 1937
birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
death_date = December 11, 2001
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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 a 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 [http://www.marquette.edu/magazine/winter06/cn-memoriam.shtml] 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." [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=126433] 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 0849342783
* Robert B. Pinter and Bahram Nabet, "Nonlinear Vision", Taylor & Francis Group, 1992, ISBN 0849342929

See also

* Insect vision

References

* George S. Smith, "Early History of the Department of Electrical Engineering", University of Washington, 2005 [http://209.85.141.104/search?q=cache:9G40VqUM38UJ:www.ee.washington.edu/about/centennial/smith_history_1969.pdf]

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External links

* [http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=126433 Pinter's math genealogy]
* [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]