Peter E. Hart

Peter E. Hart's technical contributions underlie some of the most widely-used procedures in modern computing, such as the procedure that computes your driving directions, the nearest neighbor rule for pattern classification, and a widely used procedure for detecting geometric patterns in digital images.

Beyond his research contributions, Dr. Hart has been a founder or head of four companies and three international research centers. He occasionally serves as an expert witness and consults on technology strategy. Hart holds over 125 US and foreign patents, and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the ACM and the AAAI.

Hart is also a furniture designer and maker, and has completed over 75 cycling centuries.