Alfred Inselberg

Alfred Inselberg is an American-Israeli mathematician and computer scientist based at Tel Aviv University.

Inselberg started his career at the Biological Computer Laboratory based at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. There he was part of a cybernetics group working on biomathematics developing mathematical models of the ear, neural networks, and computer models for Vision and Non-linear Analysis, gaining a PhD in Mathematics and Physics. During this period he participated in the Symposium on Principles of Self-Organization. He is particularly noted for his work on parallel coordinates (||-coords), which he proposed in 1959, for the visualization of multidimensional geometries (as in Linear Algebra) and multivariate problems.