Alfred Inselberg

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Alfred Inselberg (1936-30 December 2019, Tel Aviv)[1] was an American-Israeli mathematician and computer scientist based at Tel Aviv University.

Inselberg started his career at the Biological Computer Laboratory based at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.[2] He was part of a cybernetics group working on biomathematics developing mathematical models of the ear, neural networks, and computer models for vision and non-linear analysis, gaining a PhD [2] in mathematics and physics. During this period he participated in the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization.[3] He is particularly noted for his work on parallel coordinates[4][5] [6] (||-coords), which he proposed in 1959, for the visualization of multidimensional geometries (as in linear algebra) and multivariate problems.

Early life and education

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Inselberg was born in 1936 in Athens, Greece. Later he attended Whittingehame College in Brighton, England. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) receiving a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering. Together with Gary van Sant, and two other students under the guidance of Paul Torda, they founded the University of Illinois Rocket Society in 1953; four years prior to Sputnik. Continuing his studies at UIUC he obtained in 1965 a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Physics under the joint guidance of Ray Langebartel and Heinz von Foerster.

Career

Inselberg held senior research positions at IBM where he developed a mathematical model of the ear (cochlea) (Time November 1974) and later collision-avoidance algorithms for air traffic control (3 USA patents). Concurrently he had joint appointments at UCLA, USC, Technion and Ben Gurion University. Since 1995 he has been a professor at the School of Mathematical Sciences of Tel Aviv University. He was elected senior fellow at the San Diego Supercomputing Center in 1996. His textbook on "Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry", was published by Springer.

References

  1. ^ ""אדם מיוחד במינו": המתמטיקאי הרענני האהוב, אלפרדו אינסלברג, הלך לעולמו - צומת השרון רעננה" [Special Man: Beloved Freshman Mathemaker, Alfredo Inselberg, Has passed away - Sharon Raanana Junction] (in Hebrew). 2019-12-31. Retrieved 2020-02-10.
  2. ^ a b "Background". San Diego SuperComputing Center. San Diego SuperComputing Center. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  3. ^ Hutchinson, Jamie. ""Nerve center" of the cybernetic world Heinz von Foerster and the Biological Computer Laboratory". Biological Computer Laboratory. University of Illinois. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  4. ^ "Alfred Inselberg". Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
  5. ^ Inselberg, Alfred (1985). "The Plane with Parallel Coordinates". Visual Computer. 1 (4): 69–91. doi:10.1007/BF01898350. S2CID 15933827.
  6. ^ Inselberg, Alfred (2009). Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and its Applications. Springer. ISBN 978-0387215075.
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