Photograph: Shree Nayar, associate professor of computer science, showed the reporters one robotic vision system that can identify objects it has "seen" before and another that records objects in three dimensions. Photo Credit: Eileen Barroso.

Twenty foreign correspondents from almost as many countries toured science and technology laboratories at Columbia on Apr. 23, including sites at Morningside, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory and the Health Sciences campus.

Columbia University Record -- May 10, 1996 -- Vol. 21, No. 26