TK60 Guestbook Entries
Gerard Medioni <medioni@usc.edu>
USC
Dear Takeo:
Congratulations on turning 60, and on continuing to be a most active and productive technical leader.
You are a model for all of us, in many ways.
Best wishes for the next 60 years!
Marcel Bergerman <marcel@cmu.edu>
CMU
I am indebted to Takeo for him accepting me as a graduate student at a time when my advisor left CMU. To this day my career accomplishments are partially due to that one gesture of him. Thanks, Takeo!
Omead Amidi <amidi@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon Robotics
I would be happy to help with this event.
Tharanian Mahendran <tmahendr@andrew.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
I am excited to attend this event
Kim Goh <cnccyborg@aim.com>
International Robotics Consortium / MY Robotics
Congratulations on reaching 60 and still going strong! Despite all your wonderful vision-related work, please also include a special project to provide you with perfect vision for golf in case you break our glasses again :-) I admire your work and more importantly, you as a wonderful wonderful person. Keep it up at 60!! I will come back to sign your book at 70, 80, 90, 100.....
Best regards
Clarence de Silva <desilva@mech.ubc.ca>
The University of British Columbia
Dear Takeo,
I can't believe it! It was like yesterday when we developed the strain-gage torque sensor for the direct-drive arm, but that was twenty years ago. Good that you somehow managed to visit us and give a talk at UBC in Vancouver. So, in appreciation, I will be there for your 60th birthday bash.
Many Happy Returns!
Clarence.
Ruzena Bajcsy <bajcsy@eecs.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley
Takeo, you are a shining example to all of us in your science but most importantly in your personal integrity. Good wishes and many more productive years ahead.
Love, Ruzena
Kevin Dowling <kevin@colorkinetics.com>
Color Kinetics
3 Score and zero years ago! Wow. Soon it will be 2^6
I hope TK60 celebrates a TK legacy!
Frank Dellaert <frank@cc.gatech.edu>
Georgia Institute of Technology
Takeo, you are a force and an inspiration in computer vision.
P. J. Narayanan <pjn@iiit.ac.in>
International Institute of Information Technology (IIIT), Hyderabad, India
Takeo's energy is paralleled only by his intellect and vision. He is a consummate researcher: a builder, an experimenter, and a theoretician, all rolled into one. It was an honour to work with him on the Virtualized Reality project. I wish him 60 more productive years for transforming computer vision and robotics yet again.
Alper Yilmaz <yilmaz.15@osu.edu>
The Ohio State University
I have had the privilege to meet with Dr. Kanade and discuss on topics ranging from Computer Vision research to politics to sports in his recent lecture he gave at the distinguished lecture series at Univ. of Central Florida. Dr. Kanade in my view is an example for young Computer Vision researcher like myself.
Happy birthday Dr. Kanade.
Patrick Wang <mozart200@gmail.com>
Northeastern Univ. & Univ. of Calgary
Congratulation, and Happy Birthday !
Thank you for your contribution to Robotics and Computer Vision
Zhengyou Zhang <zhang@microsoft.com>
Microsoft Research
Takeo is a true visionary among vision researchers and has inspired several generations of students and researchers in vision and robotics. Takeo, Happy Birthday and Congratulatiuons on your extraordinary achievement.
Aaron Bobick <afb@cc.gatech.edu>
Georgia Tech
A great event to celebrate some remarkable vision. I do not know if I wil be able to attend but I wish you all the best. Take care and keep inventing - Aaron
John K. Tsotsos <tsotsos@cse.yorku.ca>
York University, Canada
Dear Takeo - All my best wishes for your 60th birthday! I wish you many, many healthy years and productive ones from a research standpoint. I have always admired your work, learned from you, and respected you as a person. You are an inspiration and role model for our whole community.
Larry Davis <lsd@umiacs.umd.edu>
University of Maryland
Takeo has set a standard for excellence and dedication to research that few can match. The combination of his personal research contributions to computer vision and robotics, his outstanding mentoring of graduate students (many of his former student are leaders of our field today ) and his leadership in guiding the Robotics Institute at CMU to its current status as the foremost institute of its kind in the world today, make him unique in our field. If I were Japanese I would name him as a national treasure!
Matt Mason <matt.mason@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
It has been a privilege and an honor working alongside you. Congratulations on your 60th birthday.
James Antaki <antaki@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon
Congratulations, Takeo. You are the quintessential embodiment of what CMU is all about, and one of the reasons I love being a part of this institution. Best wishes.
Tetsuhiko Ikegami <tetsu-ikegami@aist.go.jp>
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST)
Cliff Brubaker <cliffb@pitt.edu>
University of Pittsburgh
Dear Takeo,
What a wonderful event! I am looking forward to attending and consider it an honor to be invited to participate in this event to acknowledge your remarkable career and accomplishments.
I trust that this recognition of your stellar career will not signal any intent toward retirement or diversion from your present course. We clearly need you to continue to lead and inspire us to accomplish our vision and goals for the QoLT ERC
With deep admiration and best wishes,
Cliff
Mark Friedman <mark@augmentech.com>
AugmenTech, Inc.
I'm just back from Bangkok, where everyone is celebrating the 60th anniversary of their King's reign. I look forward to honoring your 60th birthday and, someday, the 60th anniversary of your reign guiding computer vision & robotics.
Tsuhan Chen <tsuhan@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo, so much to say about your accomplishments and impact on people. Looking forward to the event!
David Zhou <xuhui@cs.cmu.edu>
CMU
Thanks a lot for Takeo's precious advisoring during my research work in CMU. I'll be excited to attend this event. Happy Birthday Takeo!
Christos Faloutsos <christos@cs.cmu.edu>
CMU
Happy Birthday, Takeo! We are all so proud of you!
Christos
Joyoni Dey <joyoni_dey@yahoo.com>
University of Massachussetts Medical School
Congratulations to Takeo on his 60th birthday. From a ex-PhD-student, grateful for his insights and advice.
Long Quan <quan@cs.ust.hk>
HKUST
Happy birthday! Takeo, enjoy more tennis and golf!
Chenyu Wu <chenyuwu@andrew.cmu.edu>
Robotics Institute
Bin Dai <liuleinaner@163.com>
Naitonal University of Defense Technology
Happy birthday, My dear professor!
Qingxiong Yang <qyang2@uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Dear TK,
Birthday greetings from the University of Kentucky. Now you've reached your sixty years, everything is a wonderful bonus. I wish you and all your family health and happiness to enjoy it.
Best wishes,
Qingxiong
Richard Voyles <rvoyles@du.edu>
University of Denver
Time flies when you're having fun! Your keen perception is such an inspiration and your tireless efforts are greatly appreciated and admired by all that come in contact with you.
Shunichi Kanade <>
Vijayakumar Bhagavatula <Kumar@ece.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo:
I continue to be amazed by your ability to go after the core problems in robotics, and computer vision and come up with commercially-relevant solutions. Wishing you another sixty years to innovate more!
----------- Kumar
Mark Kryder <kryder@ece.cmu.edu>
CMU
Congratulations, Takeo, on your 60th birthday. I wish you all the best as you continue your fantastic career and hope that, now I am returning to academia from Seagate, our paths will cross more often.
Best regards,
Mark Kryder
Cameron Hughes <logicworld@sbcglobal.net>
YSU's Student Chapter ACM
Tracey Hughes <sugi_pai_chan@yahoo.com>
YSU's Student Chapter ACM
Diane Collins <dmcst84@pitt.edu>
University of Pittsburgh
Congratulations, Takeo. Indeed, you have many contributions of which you should be very proud! I look forward to the next 60 years of successes.
Sincerely,
Diane
H.H. Goldean Chang <hsunhsc@andrew.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
To my dearest professor Kanade, Happy Birthday!!!
Hiroko Shoji <hiroko@indsys.chuo-u.ac.jp>
Chuo University
Congratulations! I am very glad to have this unique opportunity.
Duane Williams <duane@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University / Robotics Institute
Congratulations on the successes of your first 60 years. You have a running start for your next 60. Imagine what you can do! ;)
James Kuffner <kuffner@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
It has been truly rewarding to collaborate with you. Happy Birthday!
Tanveer Syeda-Mahmood <stf@almaden.ibm.com>
IBM Almaden Research Center
Congratulations Takeo!
Will be there for CVPR 07 area chair meeting. Hope to see you then.
Mika Andoh <mandoh@kobelcometal.com>
KOBELCO METAL POWDER OF AMERICA, INC.
おめでとうございます。
Steve Seitz <seitz@cs.washington.edu>
University of Washington
Takeo--congrats on your 60th. And here's to 60 more years! All the best to a fantastic mentor, colleague, researcher, and visionary.
Teck Khim Ng <ngteckkhim@gmail.com>
DSTA Singapore
Takeo's vision and attitude towards research has significant impact on society. I am very fortunate to have had a teacher who had instilled in me discipline and the right attitude towards research.
Roberto Cipolla <cipolla@eng.cam.ac.uk>
University of Cambridge
To a real man of vision. Omedetou gozaimasu!
John Hollerbach <jmh@cs.utah.edu>
University of Utah
Takeo,
Congratulations on this testimony to your highly successful
career, and you're only 60! Still young enough for many more years of significant contributions. I can't be there due to personal reasons, but I trust you and all attendees will have a very enjoyable and worthwhile time.
Best regards,
John Hollerbach
Jon Webb <jonawebb@gmail.com>
Daniel L. Farkas <farkasd@cshs.org>
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles
Happy Birthday and congratulations, Takeo.
You are one of my role models, an extraordinary person and scientist.
Talking to you about our collaborations still is one of the highlights of my career.
Marty Fischler <fischler@ai.sri.com>
SRI International
It has been a pleasure to have known you all these years. Your work, and that of your students, has been a major influence in shaping the field of Machine Vision.
Paul Wright <pwright@me.berkeley.edu>
UC Berkeley
Takeo:
Happy birthday and of course I remember very fondly starting the Robotics Institute with you and everyone at CMU back when I joined there in 1978!! But sixty is still young and I know there will still be lots of brilliant work to come
Warmest wishes --- Paul Wright
Minoru Asada <asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp>
Osaka University
A Happy Birthday to Takeo.
誕生日おめでとうございます．偉大な功績に敬服いたします．これからもよろしくお願いいたします．岩波は進んでますか？
Yoshio Yasumoto <yasumoto.yoshio@jp.panasonic.com>
Panasonic (Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd.)
Professor Kanade, Happy birthday for your 60th years old, and hope your continuous academic activities in Japan as well as in the U.S.A.
Takahiko Hisasue <takahiko_hisasue01@mail2.city.kitakyushu.jp>
Kitakyushu City Office / Japan
Happy 60th Birthday!
I remind Pittsburgh and people live there.
Dr.Kanade, You are the key person who connects Japan and the U.S. in Pittsburgh.
Thank you very much for helping us promote cultural and economic exchange between Kitakyushu and Pittsburgh.
Yutaka Hirano <yutaka@hirano.tec.toyota.co.jp>
Toyota Motor Corporation / Future Project Division / Project General Manager
Conguraturations for 60th birthday.
It has been always good experience for me to meet and discuss with Takeo.
Michael Erdmann <>
CMU
Happy Birthday, Takeo! Thank you for all you have done for the field and for all of us in Robotics. Many best wishes.
Mark Stewart Nixon <msn@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
University of Southampton
The excellent schedule is a reflection on your enormous input - for that many thanks. And it's been great knowing you over the years too. I might even take up golf myself too! Cheers, Mark
Pauletta Pan <p2mail@yahoo.com>
Yahoo!Deutschland (Munich, Germany)
Happy Birthday Kanade-sensei! It is an honour to be on your 60th birthday guest list and I am sorry I cannot come to town to be there to celebrate yet another momentuous occasion inspired by you. I have also personally found inspiration from you: You once saw great potential in me, and I am trying to see how far it will take me here in Europe (armed now with my MS and MBA, albeit from Berkeley)! Best wishes and highest regards. Paulette
Kevin Bowyer <kwb@cse.nd.edu>
University of Notre Dame
Takeo,
I am sorry that I couldn't make this event due to travel.
Best wishes on your 60-th birthday! You have the energy of
one much younger and the accomplishments of one much older.
Kevin
YingLi Tian <yltian@us.ibm.com>
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Takeo, thank you very much! Happy birthday!
Ayao TSUGE <>
Mitsubishi
Ayao TSUGE <>
Mitsubishi Ｈｅａｖｙ Ｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｉｅｓ，Ｌｔｄ．
Ayao TSUGE <ayao-tsuge@mrb.biglobe.ne.jp>
Mitsubishi Ｈｅａｖｙ Ｉｎｄｕｓｔｒｉｅｓ，Ｌｔｄ． Ｅｘ-Ｅｘｅｃｕｔｉｖｅ Ｍｅｍｂｅｒ, Council for Science and Technology Policy, Cabinet Office of Japan
KANADE-sensei,Congratuations on the 60th birthday and the brilliant academic and engineering achievment you have made!
That should open the new life of us living with intelligent Robot in the 21st century.
Linda Shapiro <shapiro@cs.washington.edu>
University of Washington
Takeo, I've been reading your papers since your Ph.D. thesis. I think you and your students have contributed an amazing amount of outstanding work to the field of computer vision. Happy 60th Birthday.
Linda
Masatoshi Urashima <urashima-m@kajima.com>
Kajima Corporation
Phillip Koon <phillip.l.koon@boeing.com>
The Boeing Company
Congratulations on your 60th birthday! Thank you for all the technology you have brought forth for robotics.
Mahito Fujii <fujii.m-ii@nhk.or.jp>
NHK Science and Technical Research Laboratories
Dear Kanade-sensei,
Congratulations on your 60th birthday.
I was very impressed from Kanade-sensei during my staying in CMU.
I learned many things from Kanade-sensei, especially I learned to have a strong desire to achieve anything to be done.
To a wonderful thing, I was feeling that what kind of thing was likely to be attained when I was together with Kanade-sensei.
Now, whenever I am stuck at work, I am doing my best, remembering the Kanade-sensei’s spirit.
I believe that your reputation and your research will be greatly enhanced.
Omedetou Gozaimasu (Congratulations again).
Hiroyuki Yamamoto <yamamoto.hiroyuki125@canon.co.jp>
Canon Inc.
James Z. Wang <jwang@ist.psu.edu>
The Pennsylvania State University
Happy Birthday, Takeo!
Brian Long <brian.long@bayerbms.com>
Bayer MaterialScience LLC
Happy Birthday, Mr. Kanade!
I am excited to be present for this Symposium
Dana Ballard <dana@cs.utexas.edu>
University of Texas at Austin
I am delighted that you are having a big celebration for your 60th Takeo. You have been an inspiration for all of us!
Dana
Edward Riseman <riseman@cs.umass.edu>
University of Massachusetts
Takeo,
We have all been enriched by the amazing range and depth of your research contributions, but what makes it even more special is the personal grace, wit, and dignity you have brought with it to all of us. Sorry I can't be there. Happy Birthday.
Ed
Site de Rencontre au Quebec <fererer@gmail.com>
LRG Entreprises
Looking foward to meet you in real life, Tom.
Regards,
VJ
C駘ibataires au Qu饕ec
Lei Li <leili@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Congratulations & happy birthday!
Marliese Bonk <marliese@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
Congratulations and Best Wishes!
Cindy Chemsak <cindyc@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo,
Happy Birthday! You are a joy to work with.
Cindy
Jeremy Stolarz <jstolarz@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University, RI
Happy 60th birthday, Prof. Kanade!
Camillo J. Taylor <cjtaylor@cis.upenn.edu>
GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Prof. Kanade continues to define what it means to be a creative researcher and visionary leader. He is an inspiration to all of us in the field and I would like to wish him the very best on this happy occasion.
Kelvin Goh <kelvingoh@alumni.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University / SCS
､ｪﾕQﾉﾈﾕ｡｢､ｪ､皃ﾇ､ﾈ､ｦ､ｴ､ｶ､､､ﾞ､ｹ｣｡
Thanks for being a great mentor in guiding me and being a great inspiration. I've always admired that you can see the big picture and have the foresight to set research directions but yet easily get down to the details and quickly spot bugs in my program. You're always warm and big hearted. Wishing you many more birthdays to come! All the best!
Carlos Guestrin <guestrin@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
The first time I heard Takeo speak was during a VASC retreat in 1997. He told us about joining CMU, and gave an overview of his experiences here up to that point. It was a really inspiring talk; Takeo is able to connect to the audience in a deep level. Since then I have had the pleasure of interacting with him several times, and I continue to be impressed (and entertained :)).
Thank you for everything!
Carlos
Keiko Nagata <smile@silver.ocn.ne.jp>
51Youkai
Congratulation, and Happy Birthday !
ご招待いただきありがとうございます。
数々の素晴らしいご功績、私達の誇りです。
これからもお体を大切に益々ご活躍なさいますよう心からお祈りしています。次回日本でお会いできるのを楽しみに！
Michael Christel <christel@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Congratulations Takeo on your numerous achievements in computer vision! Thank you for the opportunity to collaborate with you and your students on Informedia digital video understanding research and video skims. Your insights have helped shape my continuing work in these areas at CMU, and I look forward to future exchanges where I can learn from your expertise. I wish you all the best enjoy your birthday celebration!
Ruth Gaus <riw@qatar.cmu.edu>
CMU-Qatar
Happy Birthday!
Tai Sing Lee <tai@cnbc.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Happy Birthday, Takeo! You have always been an inspiration for all of us. Tai Sing.
Sanae Minick <sminick@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University, Robotics Institute
Dr. Kanade,
I feel very privileged and honored to work for you and with you.
Congratulations and Best Wishes!
Best regards,
Sanae
Datong Chen <datong@cs.cmu.edu>
Systems Scentist, Carnegie Mellon University
Robot will become the next popular home device after PC. TK is leading this to be true.
Dimitris Metaxas <dnm@cs.rutgers.edu>
Rutgers University
Takeo,
You have been the example of success, integrity and inspiration
in computer vision for most researchers. You have also influenced me tremendously as the external of my PhD thesis with your wise comments and suggestions.
I still remember your advice when I was a young Assistant Professor at UPENN: Whatever you do in vision, make sure it works!
All the best and thanks for all your support
Dimitris
Rama Chellappa <rama@cfar.umd.edu>
University of Maryland
Dear Takeo:
You have managed to strike a fine balance between theory and practice in computer vision.
May God bless you with many many more creative and happy years!
Conrad Poelman <cptk60_at_stellarscience.com>
Stellar Science Ltd Co
Congratulations, Takeo, on turning 60! I and many others are indebted to you for all that you've taught us. I wish your "Imagine Like an Amateur, Execute Like an Expert" book would be published in English, as your common-sense meta-wisdom is always most interesting!
Jack Mostow <mostow@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo - Congratulations on your many accomplishments, and thank you for defining robotics broadly enough to include my work.
Abhishek Sharma <abhi@mfintel.com>
MobileFusion Inc.
Takeo is one of the biggest evangelist for robotics. I still remember his words of wisdom given to me and bunch of other robograds "Robotics will be defined by what you guys do with your knowledge in the outside world. Go and redefine robotics by your creativity".
As an robotics entrepreneur, I am following his vision and put it to action. We are everywhere, making surgical robots to making financial software for Wall St.
David Bourne <db@ri.cmu.edu>
Robotics, Carnegie Mellon
Takeo you have set a great example for my career. I am very proud to know you and to share the "Robotics Experience" with you during the last 27 years. Thanks!
Kostas Daniilidis <kostas@cis.upenn.edu>
University of Pennsylvania
Takeo, I had the double blessing, the first scientific talk I attended in my life to be a talk about vision and with a vision (TK, Karlsruhe, 1989)! Happy Birthday! Kostas
S.Ravi Kumar Raju <srkraju@rocketmail.com>
Indo-French Center for the Promotion of Advanced Research
Happy Birthday Prof.Takeo Kanade
Fumio Mitani <maloja@da2.so-net.ne.jp>
Golf-mate, et.al. (MSIA1975)
Conglatulations for 60th year. In Japanese saying, you are turning into baby days. Your genuine curiosity will be forever !
Shoji Tominaga <shoji@faculty.chiba-u.jp>
Chiba University
Dear Kanade-sensei,
Thank you for having sent me the announcement on the symposium in honor of your 60th birthday on March 8-9 at CMU. But I am sorry I cannot join the symposium because I am busy for creating a new lab and working on the end of academic year in Chiba University. I am still working for Osaka Electro-Communication University as a Visiting Professor. I have some students and keep my lab in Osaka.
My family is in Kyoto. Hence in the half of a week I am in Chiba and in the remaining half I am in Kansai.
I have great respect for your achievements on computer vision and robotics research.
Next month I will meet my 60th birthday, so you and I are in the same generation.
You are one of the most successful men in our generation.
I am now struggling for a new project in Chiba.
I would be happy if I could discuss about our common interests in the near future.
Congratulation on your 60th birthday symposium!
Shoji TOMINAGA
Gregg Podnar <gwp@cs.cmu.edu>
CMU Robotics
Dear Takeo, You have been an inspiration to me and many others over the years. I remember fondly working with you in the DD Arm (one) Lab.
All my best for the next 60.
Gregg
Peter Rander <rander@cs.cmu.edu>
CMU -- National Robotics Engineering Center
Happy birthday, Takeo! I can't thank you enough for your support, encouragement, and especially patience as my Ph.D. advisor. Your visionary outlook always had you looking beyond what most of the rest of us could imagine, and yet your attention to the details of the moment was never far away. You inspired us all to stretch beyond our own vision, while also helping us hone the fundamentals of disciplined engineering. I still find myself reflecting on your engineering skill and management wisdom, as I try to understand how you have consistently managed to take bright minds and mold them into brilliant, extraordinarily productive professionals -- in other words, you are still mentoring me, even today. Thank you!
Kazuo Araki <araki@life.chukyo-u.ac.jp>
Chukyo University
６０歳の誕生日おめでとうございます。偉大な先生に”認知”され、このような素晴らしいイベントの招待者リストに加えて頂いたことを光栄に思います。残念ながら健康を害しており出席できませんが、今後の先生の益々のご活躍を楽しみにしております。
augustus c. brown, jr., ph.d. <ac_jr_44@yahoo.com>
laroche college
To a visionary,
As a visionary one sends ideas out into the world not knowing always where they are going and who they will effect.
Thank you for your ideas, especially the one which grew into Quantapoint. It has forever changed my life and the way I create.
Thank you.
Harry Athanassiou <hathanassiou@gotmail.com>
Automated Cell Inc
Dear Takeo, You can never age! I still remember you being the first to come and the last to leave, when I was working in the MRCAS lab. I met you at a crucial point in my career and the confidence and drive you showed me, still propel me to this day.
Lynn Young <lynny@andrew.cmu.edu>
CMU
Dr. Kanade,
I am sorry that I will be out of town for the festivities. I hope you and everyone have a great time!
Felicidades!
Lynn
Jeannette Wing <wing@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Happy Birthday, Takeo! The twinkle in your eye will keep you forever young. Thank you for being such an inspirational and visionary scientific leader.
Koichiro Deguchi <kodeg@fractal.is.tohoku.ac.jp>
Tohoku University
Congratulations on your happy 60th birthday, with many thanks for your encouragements to us. You have been stimulating our interest in the computer vision problems.
David Simon <david.simon@medtronic.com>
Medtronic Navigation
Takeo - the learnings from my years as your student have been invaluable in my career and in my life. I am forever grateful.
Sorry that I won't be there to share in your celebration. A very happy birthday to you!
Kazuhiro Fukui <kfukui@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp>
University of Tsukuba
Congratulation, and Happy Birthday ! It will be a real pleasure for me to discuss the applications of the subspace method theory in computer vision with you again.
Kazuo Araki <araki@life.chukyo-u.ac.jp>
Chukyo University
金出先生。６０歳の誕生日おめでとうございます。卓越した功績に敬服しおります。先生に”認知”され、このような素晴らしいイベントの招待者リストに加えて頂いたことを光栄に思います。私は健康上の理由でこの３月末を持って退職致します。長い間お世話になり、ありがとうございました。先生の益々のご活躍を楽しみにしております。
Tokuji OKADA <okada@bc.niigata-u.ac.jp>
Niigata University
I am very pleased to give my heartfelt congratulations to you for the occasion to become 60 years old. Please forgive me that I cannot attend the TK60 symposium scheduled from the 8th to 9th of March, 2007 at the University Center. You will have so much applause not only from attendants but also from absentees who had spent time pleasantly in your laboratory under your guidance. I believe that many students, researches and engineers had learned so many things about what we should see and think while we were staying. I would say to you that don't stop to think and play so that you can keep your condition always good and exist as an energetic navigator to a person using time for tomorrow's innovative challenge in the world.
Masanori Idesawa <idesawa@is.uec.ac.jp>
The University of Electro-Communications
Kanade-san
I think that you are really the specialist to make person "will try" and "can do".
I like your word “imagine like an amateur and execute like an expert“.
I can remember clearly the first time I heard it; more than 20 years ago, when I stayed at Dr. P. Tamura's home in Pittsburg, we discussed on the criteria for starting new studies.
We should start from an amateur and don’t relying only on authorities because it should be for the first time and no real authorities; we should be professional to overcome many difficulties and don’t give up without completion.
Then, you said very smart and impressive word "imagine like an amateur and execute like an expert".
You did many studies based on this sprit and accomplished many great successes. Beside you, I also did many studies based on this spirit but made only a few small successes; however, it is no problem because they are still growing steadily.
I believe that many of your students succeeded your sprit; bringing big successes and raising many creative researchers.
I can not attend this time and I would like to celebrate TK60 symposium in Japan.
Congratulation TK60 symposium
Masanori Idesawa
Mario Mancini <Mario.Mancini@AMVision.com>
AMV - Applied Machine Vision
Congratulations Takeo!
Thanks for being the icon of the computer vision field.
Lynne Reder <reder@cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon
Congratulations, Takeo! Thank you for being a part of Carnegie Mellon for all these years. You have been a major player in making this a great university!
Gudrun Klinker <klinker@in.tum.de>
Technische Universit舩 Mnchen
Dear Takeo,
Unfortunately, I cannot attend your birthday celebration. I wish you the very best and many more successful years, filled with exciting research. I am very proud to have had the honor to be one of your students. You left a deep impression on me in many respects: the way to conduct research, the way to talk to colleagues, and the way to advise students. You always gave us valuable advice about how to give a good presentation or how to select a good research topic. I very often quote you to my students. Thus, your influence reaches far.
Very best wishes,
Gudrun
Asim Smailagic <asim@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Dear Takeo,
Best wishes for your 60th Birthday! We are proud of your many outstanding achievements in computer vision and robotics.
D Santosh Kumar <santosh@students.iiit.ac.in>
IIIT Hyderabad, India
Your research in robotics has been a great motivation for me to pursue graduate studies in this area. Congratulations & Best Wishes!
Shahriar Negahdaripour <shahriar@miami.edu>
University of Miami
Takeo: I had been looking forward to attending the symposium in honor of your distinguished accomplishments at your 60th birthday (something is wrong: You still look as old as you did at NSF workshop in conjunction with CVPR'91 that A.K. Jain and I organized in Maui). Unfortunately, I am on UoM Search Committee for CoE Dean and we are interviewing several candidates on Friday. Therefore, please accept my electronic, rather than verbal, congratulation for not only this very happy occasion, but also for a career that rates you as THE person with the most significant impacts in robotics and computer vision.
Li Huang <lihuang@andrew.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Vladimir Brajovic <info@intriguetek.com>
Intrigue Technologies, Inc.
Takeo you are an amazing, inspiring visionary and leader. You showed us time and again that creative simplicity, perseverance and winning attitude results in elegant solutions that define new research directions. It has been privilege working with you.
Peter Allen <allen@cs.columbia.edu>
Columbia University
Takeo - I am sorry I cannot be there tonight to share your great accomplishments. You have been a beacon for so many of us who followed you in robotics and vision. Your legacy tree is approaching infinite depth in the CS world, and you show no signs of slowing down! Best wishes, and I hope you get some time to work on your golf game!
Peter
Sono Takano Hayes <sh2q@andrew.cmu.edu>
CMU Modern Languages
Kokoro yori o-iwai to kansha o komete.
YT Chien <ychien@wtec.org>
WTEC, Inc
TK in my view is one of the few in the field whose work speaks much louder than his/her own voice. No doubt his work will also last longer than his life and many generations to come. Happy 60th birthday to you, TK!
Steve Smith <sfs@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon University
Takeo, Congratulations on your 60th! You've been a model for me throughout my career here at CMU. Enjoy the celebration and all the best for the next 60 years!
Yufei Zhou <yufeizhou88@hotmail.com>
McLean High, VA
Hi to you professor. You opened my eyes to the robotic world!
Jonas August <jonas@cs.cmu.edu>
Carnegie Mellon Robotics
Thanks for challenging us all to combine results with deep understanding. Happy 60th!
Dirk Langer <langer@dirklanger.com>
VW Electronics Research Lab
Dear Takeo,
A very Happy 60th Birthday and All the Best for many more years. The years
I spent at VASC under your leadership were memorable ones. Due to upcoming business travel, I unfortunately cannot attend TK60.
Henry Rowley <har@google.com>
Google
Congratulations Takeo on your 60th birthday! Thank you for being
an inspiration to all those who have had the privilege of working with you.
Adeola Jaiyeola <drajaiyeola@aatchb.org>
NPTEC/Aberdeen Area Chairmam's Health Board
Congratulations on turning 60. The best is yet to come. Thank you for the strenght of character you have instilled into your daughter Sayaka. She has been a blessing to us at the Northern Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center and the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairman's Health Board. I wish you the best that God has for you in the next 60 years.
Walter P. DeForest <Deforest@dkyk.com>
DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis Kaplan & Berardinelli law firm
Thank you Dr. Kanade for the opportunity to play a minor role in making your inventions available to the world.
Jacqueline left Hand Bull <adminofficer@aatchb.org>
Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen's Health Board
We are very fond and appreciative of Dr. Kanade's daughter, Sayaka. Knowing Sayaka has led us to know about Dr. Kanade, and we are richer in both instances. We send our warmest and sincere congratulations to Dr. Takeo Kanade on the occasion of his 60th birthday and the wonderful symposium held in his honor.
Motohiro Suzuki <suzuki.motohiro@canon.co.jp>
Canon Inc.
Dear Takeo Kanade.
Congratulations for your 60th birthday!!!
Yoshimasa Goto <goto.yoshimasa@jp.panasonic.com>
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. Ltd (Panasonic)
Conglaratulations on your 60th birthday. My years working with you at CMU were so exciting and productive, and your spirit has been guiding me until now. Thanks Takeo!
Baba Vemuri <vemuri@cise.ufl.edu>
University of Florida
Dear Takeo,
You have been an inspiration to the young and old alike in the Vision community and your invaluable technical contributions to the Computer Vision community are foundational pillars.
Happy 60th.....
Baba
Abhishek <abhishek.s@iiitb.ac.in>
IIITB
You have always been motivating me in Vision and I highly admire your thinking capacity. Happy birthday.
