Alfred Inselberg
Tel Aviv University
Israel
Biography
Alfred Inselberg received a PhD in Mathematics and Physics from the University of Illinois (UICU). He was Graduate Assistant at the Biological Computer Lab (BCL), where research on Brain Function, Cognition and Learning was carried out (coupled to McCulloch’s Lab at MIT of neural networks fame), and continued at BCL as Research Assistant Professor. During 1966-1995, he was IBM Researcher (reaching a rank just below Fellow) at the Los Angeles Scientific Center and later Yorktown Labs. He developed a Mathematical Model of the (Inner) Ear (TIME, Newsweek 1974, etc.) concurrently teaching at UCLA and USC. He joined the Technion’s faculty 1971-73, Ben Gurion University 1977-83, and is at Tel Aviv University since 1995. He was elected Senior Fellow in Visualization at the San Diego Supercomputing Center (1996), Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Korea University (2008) and National University of Singapore (2011). He invented the multidimensional visualization methodology of Parallel Coordinates which has become widely accepted and applied (air traffic control, data mining, etc.). His textbook is on the subject, published by Springer.