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AI ~ 1959 |
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AI - now |
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Alfred Inselberg |
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Parallel Coordinates – How it
happened
My interest in visualization was
sparked while learning Euclidean geometry. Later, while being a Ph.D. student
in Mathematics at the In 1959 Prof. S.S.Cairns,
during a lecture in his Topology course, lamented our inability to visualize
“high-dimensions” and prompted us for suggestions. I shared with the class
the idea of parallel
coordinates (abbr. ||-coords). In turn Prof.
In 1987 IBM and another competitor were
left at the last stage of the contract competition for the new Air Traffic
Control (ATC). One of the contract specifications was for an
“Automatic Collision Detection and Avoidance ” Algorithm. Together with
Bernie Dimsdale, Mike Boz
(a superb student at UCLA and part-time at IBM) using ||-coords
we came up with a solution ( As of 2004 the most
common applications are on Visual and Automatic (Classification) Data Mining
(USA patent # 5,546,516), Optimization (C.V.
Jones, D. Joos, A. Goel and others), GIS ( J.A.
Dykes, N. &
G. Adrienko,
R. Edsall and others) , Process Control, Decision
Support, Approximations (USA patent # 5,631, 982) and elsewhere. |
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Email : aiisreal@post.tau.ac.il |
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