In Memorium: Kvetoslav "Slava" Prazdny

Baird, Mike, Thorndyke, Perry W., Tenenbaum, Jay M.

AI Magazine 

Kvetoslav "Slava" Prazdny, who died September 19, 1987 in a hang-gliding accident in the California mountains, was recognized internationally as an expert in many aspects of human and machine perception. He had published over 60 articles reporting research in human perception, stereo vision, image processing, robotics, perceptual reasoning and learning, adaptive neural networks, and psychophysics. A redwood tree in Big Basin State Park is dedicated in his memory.