As a graduate student at Ohio State in the mid-1970s, I inherited a unique c- puter vision laboratory from the doctoral research of previous students. They had designed and built an early frame-grabber to deliver digitized color video from a (very large) electronic video camera on a tripod to a mini-computer (sic) with a (huge ) disk drive about the size of four washing machines. They had also - signed a binary image array processor and programming language, complete with a user s guide, to facilitate designing software for this one-of-a-kindprocessor. The overall system enabled programmable...