C. Richard Johnson, Jr. was born in Macon, GA in 1950. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, along with the first PhD minor in Art History granted by Stanford, in 1977. After 4 years on the faculty at Virginia Tech, he joined the Cornell University faculty in 1981, where he is the Geoffrey S. M. Hedrick Senior Professor of Engineering and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
At the start of 2007, following 30 years of research on adaptive feedback systems theory and blind equalization in communication receivers, Professor Johnson accepted a five-year appointment as an Adjunct Research Fellow of the Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam, the Netherlands) to facilitate the interaction of art historians and conservation specialists with algorithm-building signal processors. In 2012, Professor Johnson was appointed a Scientific Researcher of the Rijksmuseum.
Digital Signal Processing (Primary Specialization: 1977-1991: Adaptive Feedback Systems Theory; 1991-2005: Blind Equalization in Digital Communication Receivers; 2005-present: Signal Processing Algorithms in Support of Painting Analysis)
Museum exhibitions have lives lasting well past their public display – in artistic inspiration, viewers’ memories, online portals and print catalogs. David O. Brown/Johnson Museum of Art One such... Read more about Ars longa: Rembrandt catalog receives three honors
More than 60 impressions by the Dutch artist across a wide variety of subject matter – self-portraits to landscapes – are included in “Lines of Inquiry: Learning From Rembrandt’s Etchings,” through Dec. 17. The exhibition and accompanying catalog highlight learning and teaching using academic collections and explore Rembrandt’s artistic process, such as his practice of reissuing small editions of prints after making subtle changes to the plates. Read more about Exhibition, research project highlight learning from Rembrandt’s art
Cornell Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor C. Richard Johnson, currently based at Cornell Tech and Andy Weislogel of the Johnson Art Museum at Cornell recently received a Digital Humanities Advancement Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Read more about ECE Prof. Johnson to work with Cornell’s Johnson Art Museum to build a tool to authenticate watermarks in Rembrandt’s prints
