Jeffrey Russell Ambroziak (born November 12, 1966) is an American cartographer, inventor, and attorney. He developed the "Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection," a technique for creating three-dimensional maps.
Ambroziak was born in
Okinawa
is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi).
Naha is the capital and largest city ...
,
Japan
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, and educated at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
and
William and Mary Law School
The William & Mary Law School, known historically as the Marshall-Wythe School of Law, is the professional graduate law school of the College of William & Mary.
Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the school is the oldest extant law school in t ...
. Prior
to law school, Ambroziak worked as a software engineer for
Andersen Consulting
Accenture plc is an Irish-American professional services company based in Dublin, specializing in information technology (IT) services and consulting. A ''Fortune'' Global 500 company, it reported revenues of $61.6 billion in 2022. Accentur ...
and
Fannie Mae
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. In 1997, along with his father and
brother, he founded Ambroziak Third Dimension Technologies, Inc. with
the purpose of developing geospatial visualization software.
Ambroziak co-invented the "Ambroziak Infinite Perspective Projection"
(AIPP), a
map projection
In cartography, map projection is the term used to describe a broad set of transformations employed to represent the two-dimensional curved surface of a globe on a plane. In a map projection, coordinates, often expressed as latitude and longitud ...
method used for three-dimensional stereo
visualization of geographic data. The AIPP allows viewers to move their
viewpoint about a map while minimizing distortion, and scales the
vertical exaggeration depending on the viewer's distance from the map. Three-dimensional maps created with the AIPP have been used widely,
and were featured in a book co-authored by Ambroziak (''Infinite Perspectives: Two Thousand Years of Three-Dimensional Mapmaking'',
Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), and in his exhibitions at institutions
such as the
Peabody Museum of Natural History
The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University is among the oldest, largest, and most prolific university natural history museums in the world. It was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othn ...
.
Ambroziak is a patent attorney specializing in intellectual
property matters. He has been employed as an attorney at such companies as
Walker Digital
Walker Digital is a privately held American research and development lab based in Stamford, Connecticut. It was founded in 1994 by Jay S. Walker, who also holds the position of chairman as of 2011. The company specializes in creating application ...
.
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Princeton University alumni
Living people
1966 births
William & Mary Law School alumni