Richard C. (Dick) Waters

Richard C. (Dick) Waters
  • Position:
    Headquarters

    Chairman,
    MERL Fellow,
    ACM Distinguished Scientist
  • Education:
    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978
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  • Biography

    Dick received his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence (AI). For the next 13 years he worked at the MIT AI Lab as a Research Scientist and coprincipal investigator of the Programmer's Apprentice project. Dick was a founding member of MERL's Research Lab in 1991. As a MERL researcher, his work centered on multi-user interactive environments for work, learning, and play. For that work, he was made a MERL Fellow in 1996. From 1999 to 2023, Dick was President of MERL. Now as Chairman he continues to help guide the organization.

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  • MERL Publications

    •  Waters, R.C., "MERL Annual Report 2023", Tech. Rep. TR2023-000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, August 2023.
      BibTeX TR2023-000 PDF
      • @techreport{MERL_TR2023-000,
      • author = {Waters, R.C.},
      • title = {MERL Annual Report 2023},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2023-000},
      • month = aug,
      • year = 2023,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2023-000/}
      • }
    •  Waters, R.C., "MERL Annual Report 2022", Tech. Rep. TR2022-000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, November 2022.
      BibTeX TR2022-000 PDF
      • @techreport{MERL_TR2022-000,
      • author = {Waters, R.C.},
      • title = {MERL Annual Report 2022},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2022-000},
      • month = nov,
      • year = 2022,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2022-000/}
      • }
    •  Waters, R.C., "MERL Annual Report 2021", Tech. Rep. TR2021-000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, December 2021.
      BibTeX TR2021-000 PDF
      • @techreport{MERL_TR2021-000,
      • author = {Waters, R.C.},
      • title = {MERL Annual Report 2021},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2021-000},
      • month = dec,
      • year = 2021,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2021-000/}
      • }
    •  Waters, R.C., "MERL Annual Report 2020", Tech. Rep. TR2020-000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, July 2020.
      BibTeX TR2020-000 PDF
      • @techreport{MERL_TR2020-000,
      • author = {Waters, R.C.},
      • title = {MERL Annual Report 2020},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2020-000},
      • month = jul,
      • year = 2020,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2020-000/}
      • }
    •  Waters, R.C., "MERL Annual Report 2019", Tech. Rep. TR2019-000, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA, June 2019.
      BibTeX TR2019-000 PDF
      • @techreport{MERL_TR2019-000,
      • author = {Waters, R.C.},
      • title = {MERL Annual Report 2019},
      • institution = {MERL - Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories},
      • address = {Cambridge, MA 02139},
      • number = {TR2019-000},
      • month = jun,
      • year = 2019,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2019-000/}
      • }
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  • MERL Issued Patents

    • Title: "Deep Learning-based Online Adaptation of Digital Pre-Distortion and Power Amplifier Systems"
      Inventors: Benosman, Mouhacine; Ma, Rui; KANTANA, Chouaib; Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 11,948,071
      Issue Date: Apr 2, 2024
    • Title: "System and Method for Controlling Temperature and Humidity in Multiple Spaces using Liquid Desiccant"
      Inventors: Laughman, Christopher; Burns, Daniel J; Bortoff, Scott A.; Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 9,518,765
      Issue Date: Dec 13, 2016
    • Title: "Method and System for Reconstructing Sampled Signals"
      Inventors: Kniazev, Andrei; Gadde, Akshay; Tian, Dong; Mansour, Hassan; Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 9,510,787
      Issue Date: Dec 6, 2016
    • Title: "Self-Correcting Rear Projection Television"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Thornton, Jay E.; Raskar, Ramesh N.; Kato, Mamoru; Dietz, Paul H.
      Patent No.: 7,227,592
      Issue Date: Jun 5, 2007
    • Title: "Automatic Indicator System and Method"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 7,215,324
      Issue Date: May 8, 2007
    • Title: "Video Camera Controlled Surround Sound"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Russell, Bryan C.
      Patent No.: 6,741,273
      Issue Date: May 25, 2004
    • Title: "Situation Awareness System"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 6,396,535
      Issue Date: May 28, 2002
    • Title: "Method and Apparatus for Multi-Phase Rendering"
      Inventors: Perry, Ronald N.; Waters, Richard C.; Seiler, Larry; Jones, Thouis R.
      Patent No.: 6,359,619
      Issue Date: Mar 19, 2002
    • Title: "System for Reliable, Fast, Low-Latency Communication of Object State Updates Over a Computer Network by Combining Lossy and Lossless Communications"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Anderson, David B.
      Patent No.: 6,006,254
      Issue Date: Dec 21, 1999
    • Title: "Beacons for Locales"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 5,920,862
      Issue Date: Jul 7, 1999
    • Title: "System For Sending Small Positive Data Notification Messages Over A Network To Indicate That A Reciptient Node Should Obtain A Particular Version Of A Particular Data Item"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Anderson, David B.
      Patent No.: 5,842,216
      Issue Date: Nov 24, 1998
    • Title: "Method for Smooth Motion in a Distributed Virtual Reality Environment"
      Inventors: Yerazunis, William S.; Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 5,793,382
      Issue Date: Aug 11, 1998
    • Title: "System for Designing a Virtual Environment Utilizing Locales"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Barrus, John W.
      Patent No.: 5,736,990
      Issue Date: Apr 7, 1998
    • Title: "Audio Interactive Tutor"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.
      Patent No.: 5,540,589
      Issue Date: Jul 30, 1996
    • Title: "System for Decreasing the Time Required to Parse a Sentence"
      Inventors: Waters, Richard C.; Schabes, Yves
      Patent No.: 5,475,588
      Issue Date: Dec 12, 1995
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