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Larry Roberts
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Lawrence "Larry" Roberts was an American computer scientist whose 1963 MIT doctoral thesis, "Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids," is the founding work that leads Wikipedia to call him the father of computer vision, showing that a computer could infer three-dimensional shapes from two-dimensional photographs of simple solids. He is separately known for leading the Advanced Research Projects Agency team that built the ARPANET, the first wide-area packet-switched network, and later served as CEO of the commercial packet-switching network Telenet.
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Due to his Ph.D. thesis "Machine Perception of Three-Dimensional Solids" he is known as the father of computer vision.
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