Prof.Mitra Received the M.S and Ph.D degrees in EE from U.of California,Berkeley in 1960 and 1962, respectively Worked in Cornell U.,AT&T Bell Lab,U.of California at Davis,and as Department Chairman at U.of California,St.Barbara Was President of IEEE Circuits Systems Society Published over 600 papers in Signal and image Processing,twelve books,and holds five patents.Prof. Mitra Received the M.S and Ph.D degrees in EE from U. of California, Berkeley in 1960 and 1962, respectively Worked in Cornell U., AT&T Bell Lab, U. of California at Davis, and as Department Chairman at U. of California, St. Barbara Was President of IEEE Circuits & Systems Society Published over 600 papers in Signal and image Processing, twelve books, and holds five patents