Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack (born in Duisberg, Germany) is a professor of computer science at Carleton University, where he holds the SUN–NSERC chair in Applied Parallel Computing.[1] Sack received a masters degree from the University of Bonn in 1979[2] and a Ph.D. in 1984 from McGill University, under the supervision of Godfried Toussaint.[3] He is co-editor-in-chief of the journals Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications[4] and the Journal of Spatial Information Science,[5] co-editor of the Handbook of Computational Geometry (Elsevier, 2000, ISBN 9780444825377), and co-editor of the proceedings of the biennial Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS).[6] Sack's research interests include computational geometry, parallel algorithms, and geographic information systems.[2][7]

References

  1. ^ SUN–NSERC Chair in Applied Parallel Computing, Carleton University.
  2. ^ a b Sack's web site at Carleton, retrieved 2009-11-20.
  3. ^ Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
  4. ^ Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications journal description from publisher's web site, retrieved 2009-11-20.
  5. ^ Journal of Spatial Information Science, retrieved 2009-11-20.
  6. ^ WADS at DBLP, retrieved 2009-11-21.
  7. ^ List of publications for Jörg-Rüdiger Sack at DBLP.