Professor Georges G. Grinstein

The NewScientist article Invention: Personal life mapper said

The trouble with personal information is that it grows and evolves as time goes on.
 
You collect an ever-increasing variety of documents, such as images, web pages, and contact details. These are stored on a wide variety of devices like smartphones, PCs, and web servers belonging to companies such as Yahoo and Google.
 
Not only is it more difficult to collect all your information, but it is harder to organize and represent. Search engines that produce lists in return for even an advanced search entry are not really up to the task.
 
Georges Grinstein and colleagues at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell say they can do better by displaying the results of a search as a 2D or 3D map, with related documents and information clustered together in space.

Georges G. Grinstein, Ph.D. is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Head of its Bioinformatics and Cheminformatics Program, Co-director of its Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, and Co-director of its Center for Biomolecular and Medical Informatics.
 
His research interests are broad and include computer graphics, visualization, data mining, virtual environments, and user interfaces with the emphasis on the modeling, visualization, and analysis of complex information systems, most often biomedical in nature.
 
Georges has over 30 years in academia with extensive private consulting, over 100 research grants, products in use nationally and internationally, several patents, numerous publications in journals and conferences, founded several companies, and has been the organizer or chair of national and international conferences and workshops in Computer Graphics, in Visualization, and in Data Mining.
 
He has been co-chair IEEE Visualization Conferences, co-chair CHI Microarray Data Analysis Conferences, program committee AAAI conferences in Knowledge Discovery and Databases, co-chair IEEE Workshops on the Integration of Databases and Visualization, co-chair IEEE and AAAI Workshops on the Integration of Data Mining and Visualization, co-chair ACM workshop on the Psychological and Cognitive Issues in the Visualization of Data, and co-chair SPIE Visual Data and Exploration and Analysis Conferences.
 
He is on the editorial boards of several journals in Computer Graphics and Data Mining, has been a member of ANSI and ISO, a NATO Expert, and a technology consultant for various government agencies.
 
Georges coauthored Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, and coedited Database Issues for Data Visualization: IEEE Visualization ‘93 Workshop, San Jose, California, USA, October 26, 1993, Database Issues for Data Visualization: IEEE Visualization ‘95 Workshop, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, October 28, 1995, and Workstations for Experiments: Ifip Wg 5.10 International Working Conference, Lowell, MA, July, 1989.
 
His papers include Dimensional Anchors: A Graphic Primitive for Multidimensional Multivariate Information Visualizations, High-Dimensional Visualizations, Benchmark Development for the Evaluation of Visualization for Data Mining, Promoting Insight-Based Evaluation of Visualizations: From Contest to Benchmark Repository, Visualization of data for the debugging of concurrent systems, Performance Issues in a Real-Time True Color Data Display, and Program visualization: bringing visual analysis to code development. He holds patent Apparatuses, methods, computer programming, and propagated signals for modeling motion in computer applications.
 
Georges earned his B.S. in Mathematics at the City College of New York in 1967, his M.S. in Mathematics at New York University in 1969, and his Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University of Rochester in 1976.
 
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