Ellen Hildreth

Ellen Catherine Hildreth is a professor of computer science at Wellesley College.^[2] Her fields are visual perception and computer vision. She co-invented the Marr-Hildreth algorithm along with David Marr.^[3]

Ellen Hildreth
Alma mater	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Known for	Marr–Hildreth algorithm
Spouse	Eric Grimson[1]
Children	2
Awards	National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award (1987) Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (1994)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer science Cognitive science
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology Wellesley College
Thesis	The Measurement of Visual Motion (1983)
Doctoral advisor	Shimon Ullman

She completed all of her higher education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics in 1977, a Master of Science from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) in 1980, and a Ph.D. from EECS in 1983. Her thesis, "The Measurement of Visual Motion", won an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery.^[4]

She is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence^[5] and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.^[4]

Hildreth is married to Eric Grimson. The couple have two sons.^[1]

Selected works

• Implementation of a theory of edge detection (1980)^[6]