| Whitman Richards | |
| Birth Date: | 1932 |
| Death Date: | 16 September 2016 |
| Death Place: | Newton, Massachusetts |
| Work Institutions: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma Mater: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Hans-Lukas Teuber |
| Thesis Title: | Some Requirements for a Uniform Color Space |
| Thesis Year: | 1965 |
| Doctoral Students: | Aaron Bobick Donald D. Hoffman Rajesh Kasturirangan Alex Pentland Joshua Tenenbaum Emanuel Todorov |
Whitman Albin Richards (1932 - 16 September 2016) was professor of cognitive sciences and of media arts and sciences and principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology until his retirement in 2013.
He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy[1] and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating in 1953, and becoming one of the first four PhD graduates of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences in 1965.[2]