Bernt Wahl

Bernt Wahl is a mathematician, entrepreneur and author. He served as CEO Factle Corporation, CEO Datahunt, CEO Dynamic Software, and is part of the UC Berkeley Faculty. He teaches Engineering, where he serves as an Industry Fellow at the Center of Entrepreneurship. In 2002, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Malaysia.

Bernt Wahl was an early pioneer in the field of Chaos and Fractal Geometry and authored Exploring Fractals (1994) and co-authored The Fractal Explorer (1991). His firm Dynamic Software (1987) -- which he co-founded with Peter Van Roy -- was an early pioneer in mathematical visualization. The work was showcased in the fashion industry including work with the designer Jhane Barnes.

In 2001, Bernt Wahl lead the management buyout attempt of the search engine firm Infoseek through the firm Datahunt. In 2002 he started Factle a search engine focused on specialized search and local demographics. His pioneering work on neighborhood boundaries has become a standard in doing localized demographic analysis.

He also worked for United Nations on Ecotourism and he helped the U.S. National Park Service build its first website. He is also involved in social causes including the work done by The International Justice Mission, and various other organizations’ work on the global dissemination of information.

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• Bernt Wahl U.C. Berkeley Industry Fellow
• Fulbright Directory Fulbright Fellow
• Author Exploring Fractals
• Author Mapping the World ... One Neighborhood at a Time
• Press Lawsuit Claims Mapmaking Firm Owns Your Neighborhood
• Press Infoseek