History
During the Spring of 1995, members of the Engineering and Science faculty at Stanford University decided to develop a new curriculum designed to train engineers in the mathematical, computational, and experimental aspects of imaging systems. The decision to create the new curriculum was based on the belief that the engineering skills required for working within the digital image pipeline -- including methods of acquiring, transforming, and displaying image data -- form a coherent area of engineering and scientific inquiry.
Beginning in the Fall Quarter of 1996 an Image Systems Engineering Program was introduced at Stanford University. Initially, this program was offered as an area specialization within the Electrical Engineering Masters Program.
Courses taught within this area specialization are being supported by a generous equipment grant from the Hewlett-Packard Corporation. The set of imaging devices from this donation are used in the laboratory components of these classes, housed in the Image Systems Engineering laboratory in Packard 066. Additional financial support has been provided by the Xerox Coporation. In Autumn 2001, the lab was equipped with new computing equipment in the form of 20 Dell Precision Workstations (1.7 GHz Intel P4) donated by Intel Corporation.