jock_mackinlayHere at VisWeek, Tableau Software’s Director of Visual Analysis Jock Mackinlay was awarded the IEEE 2009 Visualization Technical Achievement Award for his work on automatic presentation tools and visual metaphors for visualization.

“Selecting just one person to be honored with the Visualization Technical Achievement Award is always difficult for the Awards Committee because there are many worthy contributors,” said Bill Lorensen, Chair of the IEEE VGTC Awards Committee. “Jock’s work developing automatic presentation tools and creating new metaphors for information visualization impressed the committee deeply. He was a natural choice for this honor.”

via Tableau Software’s Jock Mackinlay Honored with IEEE 2009 Visualization Technical Achievement Award.