Duke Math's Ingrid Daubechies is lauded in the NY Times article, "The Godmother of the Digital Image." Check out this article that chronicles Ingrid's work and life - it begins with:
In the summer of 2010, while preparing for a long research trip to Madagascar, the mathematician Ingrid Daubechies bought a 50-inch flat-screen TV for her husband, so he could invite friends over to watch Premier League soccer games. After setting it up, the couple turned on a match, and while Daubechies’ husband, the mathematician and electrical engineer Robert Calderbank, became transfixed by the action, she got distracted. “Oh, wow!” she said. “They use wavelets!”
Besides Robert Calderbank, it also quotes department members Lillian Pierce and Cynthia Rudin. Read the rest of the NY Times article HERE.
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