Dr. Mann has been working on his WearComp invention for more than twenty years, dating back to his high school days in the 1970s. He brought his inventions and ideas to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1991, and he is considered to have brought the seed that later became the MIT Wearable Computing Project. He also built the world's first covert fully functional WearComp with display and camera concealed in ordinary eyeglasses in 1995, for the creation of his award-winning documentary ShootingBack. He received his Ph.D. degree from MIT in 1997 in the new field he had initiated. He is also inventor of the Chirplet Transform, a new mathematical framework for signal processing, and of Comparametric Equations, a new mathematical framework for computer mediated reality.

Mann proposed to the IEEE Computer Society and was Publications Chair of the first IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC97).

He also chaired the first Special Issue on Wearable Computing to appear in a scholarly journal (Personal Technologies), and has given numerous keynote addresses on the subject, including the keynote at the first International Conference on Wearable Computing, the keynote at the Virtual Reality conference, and the keynote at the McLuhan Conference on Culture and Technology, on the subject of privacy issues and wearable computers.

He can be reached via email at
mann@eecg.toronto.edu

Steve Mann's homepage: Wearable Computing
http://www.wearcam.org

An historical account of the WearComp and WearCam inventions developed for applications in Personal Imaging
http://www.wearcam.org/historical

Wearable Computing: A First Step Toward Personal Imaging
http://www.wearcam.org/ieeecomputer/r2025.htm

Humanistic Intelligence: WearComp as a new framework for Intelligent Signal Processing
http://wearcam.org/procieee.htm

Steve Mann: Selected Papers, Research Interests, etc..
http://n1nlf-1.eecg.toronto.edu/research.html

Please Wait: A Parody of the Time Thieves
http://wearcam.org/pleasewait.html