Self-portrait of Mann in 1981 with wearable computing apparatus.

Steve Mann is a tenured professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Toronto. Download high resolution version (576x1440, 94 KB)1970s lightspacer with 1981 wearcomp This 1981 wearable computer system combined a 1970s lightspacer apparatus for wearable computational photography. ... Download high resolution version (576x1440, 94 KB)1970s lightspacer with 1981 wearcomp This 1981 wearable computer system combined a 1970s lightspacer apparatus for wearable computational photography. ... Year 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Gregorian calendar). ... The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto (U of T) is one of Canadas largest engineering teaching and research institutions. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a public research university in the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ...

Education

Mann holds degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (PhD in Media Arts and Sciences '97) and McMaster University, where he was also inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Hall of Fame, Alumni Gallery, 2004, in recognition of his career as an inventor and teacher.^[1] While at MIT he was one of the founding members of the Wearable Computers group in the Media Lab.^[2] In 2004 he was named the recipient of the 2004 Leonardo Award for Excellence for his article "Existential Technology," published in Leonardo 36:1.^[3] “MIT” redirects here. ... McMaster University is a highly regarded medium-sized research-intensive university located in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with an enrollment of 18,238 full-time and 3,836 part-time students (as of 2006). ...

Ideas and inventions

• Chirplet transform, 1991: Mann was the first to propose and reduce to practice a signal representation based on a family of chirp signals, each associated with a coefficient, in a generalization of the wavelet transform that is now referred to as the chirplet transform.
• Video Orbits, 1993: Mann was the first to produce an algorithm for automatically combining multiple pictures of the same subject matter, using algebraic projective geometry, to "stitch together" images using automatically estimated perspective correction. This is called the "Video Orbits" algorithm.^[4] See also US Patent 5,828,793, Method and apparatus for producing digital images having extended dynamic ranges.^[5]
• Comparametric Equations, 1993: Mann was the first to propose and implement an algorithm to estimate a camera's response function from a plurality of differently exposed images of the same subject matter. He was also the first to propose and implement an algorithm to automatically extend dynamic range in an image by combining multiple differently exposed pictures of the same subject matter.^[6] See also US Patent 5,706,416, Method and apparatus for relating and combining multiple images of the same scene or object(s).^[7]
• Hydraulophone: Mann invented a musical instrument that uses pressurized hydraulic fluid, such as water, to make sound. The instrument is played by placing the fingers in direct contact with the sound-producing hydraulic fluid, thus giving the musician a high degree of control over the musical expression in the sound.^[8]
• Sousveillance and CyborGLOGGING

Mann also works in the fields of computer-mediated reality. He is a strong advocate of privacy rights, for which work he was an award recipient of the Chalmers Foundation in the fine arts. His work also extends to the area of sousveillance (a term he coined for "inverse surveillance"). Mann and one of his PhD students, James Fung, together with some of his other students, have been building a cyborg community around the CyborGLOGGING concept.^[9] Comparison of wave, wavelet, chirp, and chirplet In signal processing, the chirplet transform is an inner product of an input signal with a family of analysis primitives called chirplets. ... A comparametric equation is an equation that describes a parametric relationship between a function and a dilated version of the same function, where the equation does not involve the parameter. ... The ability to add to, subtract information from, or otherwise manipulate ones perception of reality through the use of a wearable computer. ... Privacy has no definite boundaries and it has different meanings for different people. ... Sousveillance as a Situationist critique of surveillance. ...

• Mann, together with Professor Ian Kerr at the University of Ottawa, have written extensively on surveillance, sousveillance, and equiveillance. "Sousveillance", a term coined by Mann, along with the concepts that he and Kerr have developed around these ideas, have created a new dialog for cyborg technologies, as well as related personal information gathering technologies like camera phones. He has created the related concept of Humanistic Intelligence ^[10]
• Joi Ito, a leading researcher in moblogging, credits Mann with having initiated the moblogging movement by creating a system for transmission of realtime pictures, video, and text. In particular, from 1994 to 1996, Mann continuously transmitted his life's experiences, in real time, to his website for others to experience, interact with, and respond to.^[11] His CyborGLOGS ('glogs), such as the spontaneous reporting of news as everday experience,^[12] were an early predecessor of 'blogs and the concept of blogging, and earlier than that, his pre-internet-era live streaming of personal documentary and cyborg communities defined cyborglogging as a new form of social networking.

Sousveillance as a Situationist critique of surveillance. ... Equiveillance is the balance between surveillance and sousveillance. ... Signal flow path theory of HI Humanistic Intelligence (HI) is intelligence that arises because of the human being in the feedback loop of a computational process, where the human and computer are inextricably intertwined (cite Mann 1998, Proc. ... Joi Ito at the Ars Electronica Joichi Ito (伊藤穰 Itō Jōichi, born June 19, 1966), more commonly known as Joi Ito, is a Japanese-born, American-educated, activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. ...

Mann as cyborg

NOW, The Globe and Mail, National Post, and Toronto Life have all described him as "the world's first cyborg", from his early work with wireless wearable webcams.^[13] Mann's publications include the book Cyborg: Digital Destiny... and the textbook Intelligent Image Processing, describing his early adoption of an alternative life style with significant and interesting ideas. In 2001, filmmaker Peter Lynch directed Cyberman, a film about Mann's life and inventions. For the British publication, see NOW magazine (UK). ... The Globe and Mail is a large English language national newspaper based in Toronto, Canada, and printed in seven cities across Canada. ... The National Post is a Canadian English-language national newspaper based in Don Mills, Ontario, a district of Toronto. ... Toronto Life is a Canadian magazine about entertainment, politics and life in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ... For the 1968 science-fiction film and novel, see 2001: A Space Odyssey The year 2001 in film involved some significant events. ... Peter Lynch is a movie director and writer. ... 2001 documentary movie about Steve Mann, a man who wears video cameras and computers to process their images. ...

While some describe him as the founder of the field of wearable computing based on his early work in personal imaging, there is controversy surrounding the exact definition of wearable computing, and whether any one person can be considered to have invented it. For example, wearable computer imaging systems were described, hypothetically but not actually reduced to practice (i.e., not actually invented) by Vannevar Bush in his essay "As We May Think" in the Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. Wearable devices for timing the trajectory of the balls on a roulette table were built and used by Ed Thorp and Claude Shannon who first published their work in 1966, but it is uncertain whether these devices could be considered computers, in the modern-day interpretation of a computer as a general purpose device (any more than one might consider a windup wristwatch to be a computer, i.e., although it computes and displays time, what makes something really a computer is its generality of purpose). Likewise, an abacus worn around the neck on a string could be called a wearable computer, but it's not quite in the spirit of Mann's idea of a general purpose device worn during all waking moments. Predecessors like the wristwatch, the shoe-based gambling timers, etc., were used for computation of specific tasks, whereas Mann's invention was a general-purpose field programmable computer inserted into the visual reality stream of all day-to-day tasks. A wearable computer is a small portable computer that is designed to be worn on the body during use. ... Vannevar Bushs essay As We May Think, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945, argued that as humans turned from war, scientific efforts should shift from increasing physical abilities to making all previous collected human knowledge more accessible. ... The Atlantic Monthly (also known as The Atlantic) is an American literary/cultural magazine that was founded in November 1857. ... Dr. Edward O. Thorp Dr. Edward Oakley Thorp (born in August 14, 1932, Chicago) is an American mathematics professor, author, and blackjack player. ... Claude Shannon Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 – February 24, 2001), an American electrical engineer and mathematician, has been called the father of information theory,[1] and was the founder of practical digital circuit design theory. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ...

Anonequity project (Mann, Kerr, and others)

Mann is presently collaborating with a number of researchers including Ian Kerr, who is Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law & Technology, University of Ottawa, who now teaches a course on "Cyborg Law" using Mann's book [1]. Mann, together with Kerr and others, successfully started an SSHRC-funded project to study the Ethics, Law & Technology of anonymity, authentication, surveillance, and sousveillance, in addition to issues related to cyborg-law. The anonequity project is ongoing, and collaborator Kerr has also researched and lectured widely on implantable technologies[ http://www.idtrail.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=212&Itemid=43]. Canada Research Chairs (CRCs) are Canadian university research positions that were created in 2000 and funded by the Government of Canada (who have provided 900 million Canadian dollars). ... For other uses, see Surveillance (disambiguation). ... Sousveillance as a Situationist critique of surveillance. ...

Self-portraits of Mann with wearable-computing gear from 1980s to 1990s.

Download high resolution version (1748x855, 88 KB)evolution of wearable computer See http://wearcam. ... Download high resolution version (1748x855, 88 KB)evolution of wearable computer See http://wearcam. ...

Publications

Mann is author of more than 200 publications, including a textbook on electric eyeglasses and a popular culture book on day-to-day cyborg living. Selected works: For other uses, see Cyborg (disambiguation). ...

• Intelligent Image Processing ISBN 0-471-40637-6
• Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer Randomhouse Doubleday 2001
• The Wireless Application Protocol (WAP): A Wiley Tech Brief ISBN 0-471-39992-2
• International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction 2003: Special Issue : Mediated Reality ISBN 0-8058-9604-X
• Advanced Palm Programming: Developing Real-World ApplicationsISBN 0-471-39087-9

References

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External links

• EyeTap Personal Imaging (ePi) Lab
• Mann's website (wearcam.org)
• Publications
• Eduardo Kac (first person to have microchip implanted)
• Psychology and Cyborgs (with reference to Steve Mann)
• Reviews and excerpts from the 35 mm motion picture film Cyberman
• Professor Experiments With Life As Cyborg