Nahum D. Gershon
About Nahum D. Gershon
Affiliations
- The MITRE Corporation, Principal Scientist
Bio
SIGGRAPH 1996
Nahum Gershon is a Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corp. His work is concerned with information and data visualization, network browsers, image processing, data organization, and analysis of medical, environmental, and other multidimensional data. He pursues research in the use of understanding of the perceptual system in improving the visualization process. He received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science and has held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins University, and the National Institutes of Health. Gershon has extensively published in the area of visualization and has organized and chaired 7 SIGGRAPH Panels in the last 5 years. He served as a Co-Chair of Visualization ’94 and ’95 Conferences and co-organized the first Information Visualization Symposium (October 1995). He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) and the US National CODATA Committee.
Conference Contributions
Experiences
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Birds of a Feather
Learning
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Courses
Sessions Moderated
- “Breaking the Myth: One Picture is NOT (Always) Worth a Thousand Words” Moderated by Nahum D. Gershon
- “How Can SIGGRAPH Be More Effective in Promoting Computer Graphics?” Moderated by Nahum D. Gershon
- “Visualizing the Internet: Putting the User in the Driver’s Seat” Moderated by Nahum D. Gershon
Courses Organized
- “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Edwards
- “Information Visualization – The Next Frontier” Moderated by
- “How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization” Moderated by
- “Panel: Is Visualization Really Necessary? The Role of Visualization in Science, Engineering, and Medicine” Moderated by
Other Information
Roles
- Birds of Feather Presenter
- Course Organizer
- Course Presenter
- Panels Organizing Committee Chair/Co-Chair
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