Nahum D. Gershon, PhD
The MITRE Corporation,

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

Nahum D. Gershon is a Principal Scientist at The MITRE Corp. His work is concerned with data and information visualization, network browsers, image processing, data organization, and analysis of medical, environmental, and other multi-dimensional data. He pursues research in the use of understanding of the perceptual system in improving the visualization process and dealing with information. He has received his Ph.D. from the Weizmann Institute of Science and has held positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Johns Hopkins Univ., and the National Institutes of Health.

Nahum was a Co-Chair of the IEEE Visualization Conferences in 1994-1995 and co-organized the Information Visualization Symposia in 1995-2001. He co-chairs the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Human Centered Information systems and serves as a member of the Advisory Panel of the Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS), the US National Research Council’s CODATA National 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.

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.

see further at

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