Gordon L. Kindlmann is an American computer scientist who works on

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and image analysis. He is recognized for his contributions in developing tools for

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data visualization.

Biography

Gordon Kindlmann graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

with a BA in mathematics in 1995 and a MS in computer graphics in 1998. He then attended the

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

for his PhD, where he worked at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute under

Christopher R. Johnson Christopher Ray Johnson (born January 17, 1960, in Kansas City, Kansas) is an American computer scientist. He is a distinguished professor of computer science at the University of Utah, and founding director of the Scientific Computing and Imagi ...

and graduated in 2004. While at Utah, he developed a set of methods for visualizing volumetric data interactively using multidimensional

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s, which were each cited over 500 times. Following his PhD, he was a post-doctoral research fellow in the Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging at Brigham and Women's Hospital affiliated with

Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the graduate medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1782, HMS is one of the oldest medical schools in the United States and is consi ...

, where he developed the tensor glyph, a scientific visualization tool for visualizing the degrees of freedom of a

3 \times 3

. His work in diffusion tensor MRI visualization was included in a chapter of ''

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''. He joined the computer science faculty at the

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as an

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in 2009, where he teaches an acclaimed five-week course on Scientific Visualizations. In 2013, Kindlmann appeared in '' Computer Chess'', an independent comedy-drama film written and directed by

Andrew Bujalski Andrew Bujalski (born April 29, 1977) is an American film director, screenwriter and actor, who has been called the "godfather of mumblecore." Life and career Bujalski, born in Boston in 1977, is the son of artist-turned-businesswoman Sheil ...

about a group of software engineers in 1980 who write programs to compete in computer chess. The film premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize, and subsequently screened at SXSW and the

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References

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