Alfred Inselberg Publications Image Gallery Education: All degrees obtained at the University of Illinois
Champaign-Urbana,
Ph.D.- Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Dissertation topic:On Classification and Superposition Principles for Nonlinear Operators"
M.Sc. Applied Mathematics, B.Sc., Aero. Engineering.
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USA Citizen
Languages:English, Hebrew, Greek, French, Russian (Read)
Professional and Concurrent Academic Experience:
1996- Senior Fellow in Visualization, San Diego SuperComputing Center, San Diego, California, USA.1995- Adjunt Professor, Department of Computer Science, Tel AvivUniversity, Israel
1987-date Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
1985-1994- Senior Corporate Technical Staff Memberat the IBM Scientific Centers in Los Angeles, Palo Alto and then IBM Research (Yorktown Heights). Most recent research on Parallel Coordinates (5 Patents + 1 Invention Disclosure)
1966-1985- Senior Scientific Staff Member at the IBM Los Angeles
Scientific Center. Research and Development on: Mathematical and Computer Model of the Human Ear, also on Splines and Non-linear Analysis. Collaborated with Prof. R. Bellman's group in Applied Mathematics at USC.
1969-date- Adjunct Professor of Computer Science, University of
California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
1977-1983- Associate Professor in Dept. of Mathematics and Computer
Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel. In 1977 started the development
of Parallel Coordinates.
1971-1973- Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied Mathematics, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
1965-1966- Research Assistant Professor, Biological Computer Laboratory (BCL -- see below), University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
1959-1965- Research Assistant at the Biological Computer Lab (abbr. BCL) of the University of Illinois. This was a Cybernetics group collaborating with the ILLIAC Computer project. Worked on Biomathematics (Ear Model, Population Dynamics), Neural Networks, models for Computer Vision and Non-linear Analysis.
Highlights:
1994-Best Panel Award at VISUALIZATION '94 IEEE Conference, Washington, D.C.1992-IBM Outstanding Innovation Award for work on {\bf Parallel Coordinates and Collision Avoidance for Air Traffic Control}.
1987-Best Paper Award at {\em National Computer Graphics Conference}, Philadelphia, PA
1985-Elected IBM Senior Corporate Technical Staff Member.
1985-Best Paper Award at EUROGRAPHICS '85, Nice, France.
1989-to date National SIAM LECTURER.
1976-Elected Regents Professor of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine.
1975-IBM Corporate Outstanding Contribution Award for Mathematical Model of the Ear.
1974-Work on Mathematical Model of the Ear was reported in TIME, NEWSWEEK, ATLANTIC and others
1969-Best Paper Award Pan-American Congress of Engineering, Puerto Rico
1959-Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Math. Dept. Univ. of Illinois
Highest Undergraduate Honors, Univ. of Illinois
Patents & Selected Publications listed separately