Jock D. Mackinlay

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Jock D. Mackinlay
Born (1952-08-16) August 16, 1952 (age 71)
Nuremberg, Germany
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Stanford University
Known for Information visualization, Interactive visual analysis, Information visualization reference model, Visual analytics
AwardsIEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award, ACM Distinguished Member Award, IEEE Visual Languages 1998 Best Paper Award
Scientific career
Fields Computer science, human–computer interaction, information visualization
Doctoral advisor Michael Genesereth

Jock D. Mackinlay (born August 16, 1952) is an American information visualization expert and Vice President of Research and Design at Tableau Software. With Stuart Card, George G. Robertson and others he invented a number of information visualization techniques. [1]

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Education

Jock Mackinlay was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and received his BA in mathematics and computer science from UC Berkeley in 1975 and his PhD in computer science from Stanford University in 1986, where he pioneered the automatic design of graphical presentations of relational information.

Career

In 1976, Mackinlay started working as a systems analyst for the Bank of America in San Francisco. In 1977 he became a systems analyst at Minimax Research Corporation. From 1979 to 1986 he was a research assistant at Stanford University while getting his PhD. In 1986 he joined Xerox PARC, where he collaborated with the User Interface Research Group to develop many novel applications of computer graphics for information access, coining the term "information visualization". Much of the fruits of this research can be seen in his 1999 published book, Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, written and edited with Stuart Card and Ben Shneiderman. [1]

In 2000, Mackinlay took a year-long sabbatical from Xerox PARC to work as a visiting professor at Aarhus University in Denmark, [2] where he taught courses in Information Visualization and User Interfaces of Mobile Devices (co-taught with Polle Zellweger).

In 2003, Mackinlay was on Chris Stolte's dissertation committee at Stanford along with Professor Pat Hanrahan. Stolte and Hanrahan had extended Mackinlay's dissertation to a formal specification language that combines query, analysis, and visualization into a single framework. They[ who? ] went on to found Tableau Software after Stolte graduated. Mackinlay joined Tableau Software in 2004 as Director of Visual Analysis. [1] He holds numerous patents in user interfaces and visual analysis. [3]

Research and awards

Mackinlay has been an active member of the academic research community since the late 1980s. He was UIST'91 program chair and UIST'92 conference chair, and was papers co-chair for CHI'96. He was also on the editorial boards for ACM TOCHI (1997-2003) and IEEE CG&A (2004-6). [1]

He has received many awards for his work, including the best paper award at IEEE Visual Languages 1998 (co-authored with Polle Zellweger, Bay-Wei Chang, and Takeo Igarashi). [4] In 2005, Mackinlay won DMReview's data visualization competition. [5] In 2009, he received the Visualization Technical Achievement Award from the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee for his seminal technical work on automatic presentation tools and new visual metaphors for information visualization. [6] Mackinlay became a distinguished member of ACM in 2013. [7]

In 2023, Mackinlay was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, "For contributions to the fields of computational data visualization and information visualization". [8]

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  2. ↑ "Jock Mackinlay LinkedIn". LinkedIn.
  3. ↑ "Google Patents". patents.google.com. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  4. ↑ "VL 2000: Hints for submitting successful research papers". web.engr.oregonstate.edu. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  5. ↑ 2005-10-11: Jock D. Mackinlay wins DMReview's data visualization competition. Retrieved 7 July 2008.
  6. ↑ "visualization technical awards | vgtc.org". vgtc.org. Archived from the original on 2019-12-29. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  7. ↑ "Jock D Mackinlay". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2017-12-31.
  8. ↑ "National Academy of Engineering Elects 106 Members and 18 International Members". National Academy of Engineering. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
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