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Hans Moravec

1948 - Today

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Hans Peter Moravec (born November 30, 1948, Kautzen, Austria) is a computer scientist and an adjunct faculty member at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, USA. He is known for his work on robotics, artificial intelligence, and writings on the impact of technology. Moravec also is a futurist with many of his publications and predictions focusing on transhumanism. Moravec developed techniques in computer vision for determining the region of interest (ROI) in a scene. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Moravec is the 249th most popular engineer (down from 247th in 2019), the 789th most popular biography from Austria (down from 769th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Austrian Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Hans Moravec ranks 249 out of 389. Before him are Charles F. Brush, Eugène Flachat, Ed Heinemann, Louis Vicat, Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, and Sergey Chaplygin. After him are Léon Serpollet, Brian McGuire, Waloddi Weibull, Louis Pouzin, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, and Mikhail Simonov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Hans Moravec ranks 395. Before him are Ken Ribet, Raúl Reyes, Dušan Kovačević, Alexander McCall Smith, Gian Piero Ventura, and Dave Holland. After him are JoBeth Williams, Anatoly Solovyev, Levan Tediashvili, Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, Martin Birch, and Richard Simmons.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Hans Moravec ranks 789 out of 1,424. Before him are Egon Zimmermann (1939), Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874), René Wellek (1903), Johann Georg Hiedler (1792), Mateo Kovačić (1994), and Karl Gruber (1909). After him are Hans Rosbaud (1895), Karl H. Pribram (1919), Georg Braun (1907), Kurt Schmied (1926), Carl Vaugoin (1873), and Friedrich Waismann (1896).

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Among ENGINEERS In Austria

Among engineers born in Austria, Hans Moravec ranks 9. Before him are Hans Ledwinka (1878), Viktor Kaplan (1876), Carlo Abarth (1908), Aurel Vlaicu (1882), Hanns Hörbiger (1867), and Béla Barényi (1907). After him are Erwin Komenda (1904).

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