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I would like to thank Jitendra Malik for the source material for this lecture and Ma Yi, Cenk Cavusoglu and Serge Belongie for their help with the MATLAB demos

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According to several philosophers of science (my source is C. A. Desoer) the most important contribution of the Renaissance was the sense of progress where by one laid out a major program which continued over several generations with steady improvement much like a cathedral building activity.