Nahum D. Gershon
The MITRE Corporation,

+1 703-883-7518
gershon@mitre.org

Nahum D. Gershon is a Senior Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corp. His work is concerned with data and information visualization, storytelling and its application to information capture and dissemination, Web browsers, image processing, information and 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, story telling, and dealing with information. Nahum was a Co-Chair of the IEEE Visualization Conferences in 1994-1995 and co-organized the Information Visualization Symposia in 1995-2001. He is the Chair of the Task Force on Human Centered Information Systems and the Interactive Technology Initiative (both of the IEEE Computer Society), a Member of the Advisory Panel of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), an Ex Officio Member of the US National Research Council's CODATA Committee, and a Member at Large of the NATO Panel on Human Factors and Medicine. He was a Member of the Focus Group on Visualization and Presentation of the White House's GLOBE Program. Nahum has had many national and international speaking engagements and has published extensively in large-circulation trade publications and magazines and in refereed journals.

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http://www.mitre.org/news/digest/archives/2002/nahum_gershon.html

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_seminar.nsf/pages/sem_abstract_207.html