Jeff Bier is founder of the Embedded Vision Alliance. The Alliance is an industry partnership formed to inspire and empower product creators to create more capable and responsive products through integration of vision capabilities. The Alliance provides training videos, tutorial articles, code examples, and an array of other resources (all free of charge) on its web site, www.Embedded-Vision.com. Jeff is also cofounder and president of BDTI (www.BDTI.com), a resource for independent analysis and specialized engineering services in the realm of embedded digital signal processing technology. Jeff oversees BDTI’s benchmarking and analysis of chips, tools, and other technology. He is also a key contributor to BDTI’s engineering services, which focus on developing optimized software and system using embedded digital signal processing. Jeff earned his B.S. degree from Princeton University and his M.S. degree from U.C. Berkeley, both in electrical engineering.