Robert Bartholomew Pinter was an American

biomedical engineer Biomedicine (also referred to as Western medicine, mainstream medicine or conventional medicine)

signal processing Signal processing is an electrical engineering subfield that focuses on analyzing, modifying and synthesizing ''signals'', such as audio signal processing, sound, image processing, images, Scalar potential, potential fields, Seismic tomograph ...

in the insect visual system.

Education

He received a BS in

electrical engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems that use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

from

Marquette University Marquette University () is a Private university, private Jesuit research university in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. It was established as Marquette College on August 28, 1881, by John Henni, the first Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Ar ...

in 1957 and an MS from

Northwestern University Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in ...

in 1960. He received his PhD in electrical engineering and biomedical engineering from

in 1964, with a thesis entitled ''A Study of the Dynamic Properties of the Generator Potential of the Limulus Photoreceptor.'' His MS and PhD were both under Richard W. Jones.

Career

Pinter has joined the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW and informally U-Dub or U Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Founded in 1861, the University of Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast of the Uni ...

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 Dalhousie University (commonly known as Dal) is a large public research university in Nova Scotia, Canada, with three campuses in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Halifax, a fourth in Bible Hill, Nova Scotia, Bible Hill, and a second medical school campus ...

, Halifax,

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, Canada and visiting fellow of the center for visual sciences,

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public university, public research university and member of the Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight, located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton, A ...

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, Australia. His research interests were mathematical and electronic models of the visual and

nervous system In biology, the nervous system is the complex system, highly complex part of an animal that coordinates its behavior, actions and sense, sensory information by transmitting action potential, signals to and from different parts of its body. Th ...

and linear and nonlinear

control theory Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control system, control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the applic ...

Books by Pinter

* Bahram Nabet and Robert B. Pinter, ''Sensory Neural Networks: Lateral Inhibition'', Taylor & Francis Group, 1991, * Robert B. Pinter and Bahram Nabet, ''Nonlinear Vision'', Taylor & Francis Group, 1992,

Notes

References

* George S. Smith, ''Early History of the Department of Electrical Engineering'', University of Washington, 2005

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