Blindsight → About
The Company
In 1996 Mark Nitzberg and Alan Yuille founded The Blindsight Corporation as a means to apply the latest Computer Vision theories and techniques to help people who can’t see well in their day-to-day activities.
Blindsight’s research has since been supported by the National Eye Institute through the Small Business Innovation Research grants program.
One of our key contributions is an object detection algorithm that is tuned to find text in natural environments.
The People
Mark Nitzberg, Ph.D.
President
Mark received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Harvard University in 1991, where his research in machine vision combined image segmentation with depth recovery techniques. Both a scientist and an entrepreneur, Mark is a co-inventor on 14 U.S. patents related to image encoding and medical technologies, and he has co-founded several technology companies.
Alan L. Yuille, Ph.D.
Chief Consulting Scientist
Alan wrote his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics under Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University in 1980. After post-doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin, The Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara, and the Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT, he joined the Division of Applied Sciences at Harvard University, where he became an Associate Professor. Alan also spent several years as a senior scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco. He is currently a professor at UCLA.
Alan has over one hundred and thirty peer-reviewed publications on vision, neural networks, and physics and has co-authored two books.
Harris “Hutch” Fishman
Finance Advisor
Hutch Fishman is currently CFO of cMarket, Inc. He has worked with a number of high-profile emerging and publicly held companies within diverse industries including software, telecommunications, and new media.
Hutch has served as the founding CFO of the following companies: Sonus Networks (Nasdaq-SONS), the FamilyEducation Network (acquired by Pearson), Viaweb (acquired by Yahoo!), Winphoria Networks (acquired by Motorola), and VideoServer (Nasdaq-EZEN). Hutch, a certified public accountant, was previously a senior manager at Deloitte & Touche and co-founder of the Boston office’s High Technology and Emerging Business Group.
Daniel Terry
Chief Architect and Program Manager
Daniel manages Blindsight’s ongoing research and development projects. He is responsible for analyzing the performance of technical projects and directing research towards areas ripe for improvement. He also oversees the implementation of computer vision and machine learning algorithms in these areas. Daniel has a background in management strategy consulting and computer vision research. He received his B.A. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Stellan Lagerström
Senior Product Engineer
Stellan is Blindsight’s lead product engineer. He has designed and built software for a range of practical products including satellites and specialized web applications, notably the Zezame annotation server. Stellan studied Electrical Engineering at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden.
Harlan Crystal
Computer Vision Research Engineer
Harlan converts research papers and bright ideas into working code, and iteratively optimizes the code using carefully designed automated tests. He holds a B.A. in Computer Science from Cornell University.
Tom Laramee
Senior Software Developer
Tom is a software engineer focusing on the development of handheld devices. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.