Ernest Lenard Hall

] He has also served as a judge for the Cincinnati FIRST Lego League for two yearscite web |url=http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/find-articles.pl?&07apm005&ME&20070409&&SME&#article|title=SME Member Supports DARPA Challenge|accessdate=2007-12-25|date=2007-4|publisher=Manufacturing Engineering] and has been called the Woody Flowers of Cincinnati for giving the Gracious Professionalism award. In 2006, Ernest L. Hall won the Grand Prize in the "Made in Express" contest sponsored by Microsoft.cite web |url=http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2006/09/19/762215.aspx|title=Made In Express Winners Announced |accessdate=2007-12-25|last=Fernandez |first=Dan |date=2006-09-19|work=Dan Fernandez's Blog|publisher=Microsoft Developer Network] His entry for the contest was an all-terrain self-maneuverable robot developed using Microsoft Visual Studio Express.cite web |url=http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.asp?id=4261|title=UC Engineering Prof. Ernie Hall Shows What Separates One Man from 11 "Boys": The Skills of Their Toys|accessdate=2007-12-25|last=Beckman|first=Wendy|date=2006-08-16] cite web |url=http://www.min.uc.edu/MINE/news_folder/professor-ernie-hall-wins-the-grand-prize-at-microsofts-made-in-express-contest|title=Professor Ernie Hall wins the grand prize at Microsoft's "Made in Express" contest|accessdate=2007-12-25|date=2007-10-17|publisher=University of Cincinnati Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Nuclear Engineering] He donated the $10,000 cash prize from the contest back to the University of Cincinnati to support robotics.

Education

Ernie Hall received a B.S. in 1965 and an M.S. in 1966, both in Electrical Engineering, from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri under the [http://unitpages.military.com/unitpages/unit.do?id=709741 Naval Enlisted Scientific Education Program] (NESEP) sponsored by the United States Marine Corps. He completed both degrees in four years. He then attended Officer Candidate School and joined the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing as a radar officer. Following an honorable discharge of his military service, he returned to the University of Missouri in 1968 and received his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in 1971. His dissertation, "Digital Filtering of Images" extended the concepts of digital signal processing, including recursive filtering, from signal processing to the enhancement of two dimensional images and other applications of image measurements in radiology.cite paper |last=Hall |first=E.L. |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Digital Filtering of Images|version= |publisher= |date=1971 |url=http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/5/31254/01454848.txt |format= |id=103 |accessdate= ]

Career

Ernie Hall joined the [http://www.info.med.yale.edu/diagrad Radiology Department] at Yale University, where he also taught in the Department of Computer Science. At Yale, his primary focus was in diagnostic radiography (see Radiography) such as the automated diagnosis of coal workers pneumoconiosis, but he also became interested in the new field of computed tomography. In 1973, he joined the [http://sipi.usc.edu/ Signal and Image Processing Institute] (SIPI) at the University of Southern California that had been recently formed with support from a DARPA grant to develop computer imaging technologies.cite web |url=http://sipi.usc.edu/whatis.html |title=What is SIPI |accessdate=2007-12-27 |format= |work=Signal and Image Processing Institute Web site] In 1976 he joined the University of Tennessee the Image and Pattern Analysis Laboratory.cite web |url=http://www.eecs.utk.edu/faculty/gonzalez/main |title=Doctor R.C. Gonzalez|accessdate=2007-12-27 |format= |work=University of Tennessee Web site] While in Knoxville, Tennessee, he consulted with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. In 1983, he became the first Paul. E. Geier Professor of Robotics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Cincinnati. At the University of Cincinnati, he established the [http://www.robotics.uc.edu Center for Robotics Research] and founded the [http://bearcatrobot.pbwiki.com UC Robot Team] .

Memberships

Ernie Hall is or has been a member of the following professional organizations: IEEE ( [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/index.html Life Fellow] ), SME ( [http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/awardhtml.pl?/awards/fintro.htm Fellow] ), SPIE (Fellow)cite web|url=http://spie.org/x38.xml|title=Complete List of SPIE Fellows|format=|accessdate=2007-12-29] ] , Ohio Academy of Science (Fellow)cite web|url=http://www.ohiosci.org/PR2005-Fellows.pdf|title=Science Academy Names Fellows|format=PDF|date=2005-03-11|author=|accessdate=2007-12-29|publisher=The Ohio Academy of Science] ] ,
American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Institute of Industrial Engineers, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Pi Mu Eplison, and Eta Kappa Nu. He is also a Certified Manufacturing Engineer and is registered as a Professional Engineer in Missouri, California, Tennessee, and Ohio.

Awards

Ernie Hall has received numerous professional awards, which include the following: Master Educator Award College of Engineering (2007), Fellow Award from the [http://www.ohiosci.org Ohio Academy of Science] (2005), Diversity in Teaching Award from the University of Cincinnati (2004), Dean’s Award for Innovation in Teaching from the College of Engineering (2003), Scientists and Engineers of Cincinnati Academic Award (2003), [http://www.sme.org/cgi-bin/smeefhtml.pl?/foundation/grants/fspmer.htm M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award] from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (2002) for "Handbook of Industrial Automation"Citation|title=Handbook of Industrial Automation|last= Shell|first=R. L.|last2=Hall|first2=E. L.|year=2000 |publisher=Marcel Dekker |location= |isbn=978-0824703738] , SME Fellow Award (1998), SME Certification by Stature Award (1988), SPIE Fellow Award (1986), IEEE Fellow Award (1985), IEEE Centennial Medal (1984), Brooks Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching and Distinction in Engineering Practice from the University of Tennessee (1982), IBM Professor and Member of Engineering Academy (1982), and Tennessee Tomorrow Award from the University of Tennessee (1980).

Books and chapters

Ernie Hall has written or contributed chapters to the following books:
*Citation|title=Handbook of Industrial Automation|last= Shell|first=R. L.|last2=Hall|first2=E. L.|year=2000 |publisher=Marcel Dekker |location= |isbn=978-0824703738
*Citation|title=Automatic Target Recognition|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|editor-last= Sadjadi|editor-first=Firooz A.|year=1999 |publisher=SPIE |location= |isbn=978-0819432193
*Citation|title=Robotics: A User Friendly Introduction|last= Hall|first=E. L.|last2=Hall|first2=B. C.|year=1985|publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |location= |isbn=978-0030697180
*Citation|title=Computer Image Processing and Recognition|last= Hall|first=E. L.|year=1979|publisher=Academic Press |location= |isbn=978-0123188502
*Citation|title=Handbook of Pattern Recognition and Image Processing|contribution=Fundamental Principles of Robot Vision|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|editor-last=Young|editor-first=Tzay Y.|year=1994 |publisher=Morgan Kaufmann Publishers|pages=543-575|location= |isbn=978-0127745619
*Citation|title=Progress in Material Handling and Logistics| contribution=Algorithms and Architectures for Machine Vision|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=Roning|first2=J.J.|editor-last=White|editor-first=J.A.|editor2-last=Pence|editor2-first=I.W.|year=1994 |publisher=Springer-Verlag|pages=59-74|location= |isbn=978-3540534426
*Citation|title=Progress in Astronautics and Aeronautics| contribution=Vision Sensing Techniques|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|editor-last=Heer|editor-first=E.|editor2-last=Lum|editor2-first=H.|year=1989|publisher=AIAA|pages=59-74
*Citation|title=Recent Advances in Robotics|contribution=Three Dimensional Robot Vision Techniques|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=McPherson|first2=C.A.|editor-last=Bene|editor-first=G.|editor2-last=Hackwood|editor2-first=S.|year=1985|publisher=Wiley|pages=263-312|location= |isbn=
*Citation|title=Management of Peripheral Nerve Problems|contribution=Axon Counting Techniques for Nerve Regeneration|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=Frykman|first2=G.K.|last3=Wood|first3=V.E.|editor-last=Omer|editor-first=George E., Jr., M.D.|editor2-last=Spinner|editor2-first=Morton, M.D.|year=1977|publisher=W.B. Saunders Co.|pages=263-312|location=Philadelphia|isbn=
*Citation|title=Current Concepts in Radiology|contribution=Computed Tomography and its Application to Nuclear Medicine Imaging|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=Huth|first2=G.C.|editor-last=Potchen|editor-first=E.James|year=1977|publisher=C.V. Mosby Co.|pages=263-312|location=St. Louis|isbn=978-0801639876
*Citation|title=Digital Signal Processing|contribution=Computer Multiplication and Division Using Binary Logarithms for Digital Filtering Applications|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=Lynch|first2=D.D.|last3=Dwyer|first3=S.J.|editor-last=Salazar|editor-first=A.C.|year=1977|publisher=IEEE Press|pages=263-312|location=|isbn=
*Citation|title=Innovative Printmaking: The Making of Two and Three Dimensional Prints and Multiples|contribution=Collaborative work|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|last2=Pinkel|first2=S.|editor-last=Newman|editor-first=Thelma R.|year=1977|publisher=Crown Publishing Group|location=|isbn=
*Citation|title=Tutorial and Selected Papers in Digital Signal Processing|contribution=Five papers|last=Hall|first=Ernest L.|editor-last=Andrews|editor-first=H.C.|year=1978|publisher=IEEE Press|location=|isbn=

Patents

*US patent|4670648|Omnidirectional Vision System for Mobile Robots
*US patent|5155684|Guiding an Unmanned Vehicle by Reference to Overhead Features
*US patent|5175692|Method and Apparatus for Palletizing Randomly Arriving Mixed Size and Content Parcels

ee also

References

External links

* [http://www.eng.uc.edu/robotics/elhall/elhall.html Ernie Hall's University of Cincinnati website]
* [http://www.professor.ernesthall.com/ Curriculum vitae]
* [http://www.ernesthall.com Ernie Hall's consulting Web site]
* [http://www.robotics.uc.edu U.C. Robotic team Web site]

Persondata
NAME= Hall, Ernest L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=Hall, Ernie
SHORT DESCRIPTION= American robotic engineer
DATE OF BIRTH= December 8, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH= Naylor, Missouri
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=