Nahum D. Gershon

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

• The MITRE Corporation, Principal Scientist

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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.   

   

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Course Organizer:

• SIGGRAPH 1999, "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain"
• SIGGRAPH 1994, "Information Visualization - The Next Frontier"
• SIGGRAPH 1993, "How to Lie and Confuse with Visualization"
• SIGGRAPH 1994, "Panel: Is Visualization Really Necessary? The Role of Visualization in Science, Engineering, and Medicine"