Jock Mackinlay Honored at IEEE Vis 2009

Here 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.”

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This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a visualization scientist working for a federal research lab, aiding researchers to discover the insights buried within their terabyte datasets generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. He also runs VizWorld.com .