Hanan samet biography of nancy
Hanan Samet, American engineer, mathematician, computer ....
Hanan Samet is a Distinguished University Professor of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies.
Hanan samet biography of nancy
He is also a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory at the Center for Automation Research.
He leads a number of research projects on the use of hierarchical data structures for database applications involving multimedia data such as spatial and image databases.
Samet's research group has developed the SAND spatial browser, the VASCO system of JAVA applets for visualizing and animating spatial indexes, and the MARCO system for map retrieval by content, which enables pictorial queries on a symbolic image database system.
Current research prototypes include the STEWARD system for identifying the geographic focus of documents thereby facilitating the performance of spatio-textual search to enable searches that rank the results by spatial proximity rather than by exact match, the NewsStand (see the C