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{{Short description|American computer scientist (1925–2020)}}
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}}{{Infobox person
| name               = Herbert Freeman
| birth_name         = Herbert Freinmann
| birth_date         = December 13, 1925
| birth_place        = [[Frankfurt]], Germany
| death_date         = November 15, 2020 (aged 94)
| death_place        = [[New Jersey]], United States
| nationality        = American
| occupation         = Computer scientist
| spouse             = Joan Sleppin
| children           = 3
| awards             = IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer award (1999)
}}

Dr. '''Herbert Freeman''' (born Herbert Freinmann, December 13, 1925 – November 15, 2020) was an American [[computer scientist]] who made important contributions to the field of [[automatic label placement]], [[computer graphics]], including [[spatial anti-aliasing]], and [[machine vision]].

==Personal life==
Herbert Freeman was born Herbert Freimann in [[Frankfurt]], Germany on December 13, 1925. Freeman's parents, Leo and Johanna, and his brother, Henry, emigrated to the United States in 1936. Herbert was diagnosed with [[tuberculosis]], and was unable to join his family in the United States until 1938. He received his [[Bachelor of Engineering|B.S.E.E.]] degree from [[Union College]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and his [[Master's degree|Master's]] and [[Doctor of Engineering|Eng.Sc.D.]] degree from [[Columbia University]], New York.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Herbert Freeman {{!}} IEEE Computer Society |date=17 April 2018 |url=https://www.computer.org/profiles/herbert-freeman |access-date=2022-03-01 |language=en-US}}</ref> He married Joan Sleppin in 1955 and they had three children, Nancy, Susan, and Robert.<ref>''Cobblestones'', http://digital.cjh.org/1512765.</ref> Freeman died on November 15, 2020, in his home in [[New Jersey]], USA.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.aspx?n=herbert-freeman&pid=197122184 |title=HERBERT FREEMAN|website=[[Legacy.com]] }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Sad news about Herbert Freeman {{!}} Rutgers University, Electrical & Computer Engineering |url=https://www.ece.rutgers.edu/news/sad-news-about-herbert-freeman |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=www.ece.rutgers.edu}}</ref>

==Career in Computer Science==
Freeman held many professorial posts such as in [[Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute|RPI]] (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), [[New York University|NYU]], and [[Rutgers University]]. Freeman was the recipient of several awards, including the [[IEEE Computer Society]]'s [https://web.archive.org/web/20100204035227/http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/FREEMAN Computer Pioneer award (1999)]. Freeman was also a [[Association for Computing Machinery#Fellows|Fellow of the ACM]], a Life Fellow of the [[IEEE]], and a [[Guggenheim Fellow]]. Professor Freeman also founded [[MapText]], Inc., in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About Us |url=https://www.maptext.com/about |access-date=2022-03-01 |website=MapText |language=en-US}}</ref>

==See also==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100913163224/http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/directory/freeman.html Dr. Freeman's homepage at Rutgers University]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071029195807/http://www.maptext.com/ProductLiterature/Freeman-White-Paper-041027.pdf Dr. Freeman's White Paper on Automated Cartographic Text Placement]
* [http://digifindingaids.cjh.org/?pID=476289 Guide to the Herbert Freeman Family Collection], [[Leo Baeck Institute]], New York, New York.
* Freeman's memoir [http://digital.cjh.org/1512765 ''Cobblestones''].

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[[Category:Polytechnic Institute of New York University faculty]]
[[Category:Fellows of the International Association for Pattern Recognition]]
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