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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Karla">Optica (formerly OSA) is pleased to announce that Andrew Watson has been selected as the 2023 recipient of the Edgar D. Tillyer Award.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Karla">Andrew is being honored specifically for pioneering the application of computational approaches to understand foundational aspects of spatial and temporal vision as well as motion perception and their influential
application in the field of image quality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:Karla">This award was established in 1953 to honor of Edgar D. Tillyer's important contributions to the advancement of better vision and the optical sciences. It is presented to a person
who has performed distinguished work in the field of vision, including (but not limited to) the optics, physiology, anatomy, or psychology of the visual system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Karla">Learn more: <a href="https://www.optica.org/Awards/AWatsonWins2023TillyerAward">
https://www.optica.org/Awards/AWatsonWins2023TillyerAward</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Meredith Smith</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Director, Awards and Special Programs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="mailto:msmith@optica.org">msmith@optica.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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