Bela Julesz
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
February 19, 1928 - December 31, 2003
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Scientific Discipline: Psychological and Cognitive Sciences Membership Type:
Member
(elected 1987)
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Bela Julesz was highly regarded as a psychologist and neuroscientist. His early work produced the random-dot stereogram, a tool used extensively in the fields of experimental psychology and visual neurophysiology, ultimately providing insight into the human brain’s perception of, and ability to process, stereo vision. Julesz later developed the “texton” theory, which contributed greatly to the study of complexities involved with human visual perception.
Julesz graduated from the Technical University of Budapest in 1950 with a degree in electrical engineering and earned his PhD from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1956. Upon completion of his doctorate, Julesz immigrated to the United States and began working at the Bell Laboratories, holding positions as the research head of the Sensory and Perceptual Processes as well as the Visual Perception Research Departments until 1989. In 1983, while working at Bell Laboratories, Julesz received the MacArthur Prize Fellow Award in Experimental Psychology and Artificial Intelligence. Upon retirement from Bell, he began teaching psychology at Rutgers University, establishing the university’s Laboratory of Vision Research.
