Miriah Meyer is an American
computer scientist and
USTAR
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professor at the
University of Utah
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. She is noted for her pioneering work in
data visualization for research applications. She received an
American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship in 2006 and served as a reporter for ''
The Chicago Tribune
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''. She was named in ''
MIT Technology Review
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''s
TR35
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...
list in 2011 and
Fast Company
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History
''Fast Company'' was launched in November 1995 by Alan Web ...
's list of the 100 most creative people in 2012. She was named a 2013
TED Fellow
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for her work in
interactive visualization
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.
References
Living people
Pennsylvania State University alumni
University of Utah alumni
American computer scientists
American women computer scientists
University of Utah faculty
Computer graphics researchers
Information visualization experts
Year of birth missing (living people)
American women academics
21st-century American women
TED Fellows
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