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Employment:
- 1984-present, Professor, School of Computer
Science, McGill University
- 1996 (May-July), Visiting Professor, Department
of Applied Mathematics II, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona,
Spain (host:Ferran Hurtado).
- 1996 (March-May) Visiting Professor, Department
of Applied Mathematics, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain (host:
Manuel Abellanas).
- 1995 (October-December) Vice-Chancellor's Research
Best Practice Fellow, Department of Computer Science, University of
Newcastle, Australia (host: Mike Houle).
- 1989 (June-August), Visiting Lecturer, Robotics
Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Amsterdam (host: Franz
Groen).
- 1989 (February-March), Visiting Professor, Department
of Mathematics, University of West Indies, Barbados (host: Charles Cadogan).
- 1988 (August-December), ASI Fellow, Advanced Systems
Institute of British Columbia (Simon Fraser University), Burnaby, Canada
(host: Binay Bhattacharya).
- 1986 (March-May), Visiting Scholar, Department
of Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University (host: Richard Pollack).
- 1980-81, Chercheur Invité, Centre de Recherche
de Mathématiques Appliquées, Université de Montreal.
- 1978- 1984 Associate Professor, School of Computer
Science, McGill University.
- 1977 (June-August), Visiting Scholar, Stanford
University, Information Systems Laboratory (host: Tom Cover).
- 1975 (June-Sept.), Visiting Scholar, Stanford University,
Information Systems Laboratory (host: Tom Cover).
- 1974-1978, Assistant Professor, School of Computer
Science, McGill University.
- 1973-1974, Visiting Assistant Professor, School
of Computer Science, McGill University.
- 1972-1973, Visiting Lecturer (half-time), School
of Computer Science, McGill University.
- 1968 (Jan.-June), Teaching Fellow, University
of Tulsa, electronics and control theory.
- 1967-1968, Electronic Technician, University of
Tulsa, Electrical Engineering Department, construction of electronic equipment.
- 1967 (May-Sept.), Draftsman, Williams
Brother's Co., Tulsa, Okla., electrical drafting.
- 1966 (May-Sept.), Computer Programmer, Williams
Brother's Co., Tulsa, Okla., Programming automated drafting of pipelines.
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Present and Past Membership in
Professional Societies:
- New York Academy of Sciences
- European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers:
- Computer Group
- Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Group
- Information Theory Group
- Computer Graphics Society
- Pattern Recognition Society
- Classification Society
- Statistical Society of Canada
- Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence
- Canadian Man Computer Communication Society
- Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of the Mind
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Editorial Positions Held (present
and past):
- Editor, Discrete and Computational Geometry
- Editor, Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
- Editor, International Journal of Computational Geometry
and Applications
- Editor, Pattern Recognition
- Editor, The Visual Computer
- Editor, Forma
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence.
- Editor, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.
- Associate Editor, Plenum Press Series on Advanced
Applications in Pattern Recognition.
- Guest-Editor, The Visual Computer, Vol. 10, No.
8, May 1994, Special Issue on Computational Geometry.
- Guest Editor, Pattern Recognition Letters, Special
Issue on Computational Geometry, vol. 14, No. 9, September 1993.
- Guest-Editor, Proceedings of the IEEE, September
1992, Special Issue on Computational Geometry.
- Guest-Editor, The Visual Computer, Vol. 3, No.
6, May 1988, Special Issue on Computational Geometry.
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Other Professional Positions
Held:
- Advisory Board Member, IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1991-present.
- Advisory Board Member, Journal of Structure Classification.
- Council Member, The Classification Society, 1978-1981.
- Panelist, Panel Discussion on the Interaction Between
Facility Location and Computational Geometry, Conference on Facility
Location and Computational Geometry, Sevilla, Spain, April 23, 1996.
- Session Chair, 12th European Workshop on Computational
Geometry, University of Münster, Germany, March 28-29, 1996.
- Organizer, Workshop on Computational Geometric Tomography,
Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University, Barbados, February 2-9,
1996,
- Session Chair, 6th International Symposium on Algorithms
and Computation, Cairns, Australia, December 4-6, 1995.
- Conference Organizer, Computational Geometry Day,
Department of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia, November
29, 1995.
- Session Chair, Computational Geometry Day, Department
of Computer Science, University of Newcastle, Australia, November 29, 1995.
- Program Committee Member, The Fourth International
Conference on CAD & CG, Wuhan, China, October 22-25, 1995.
- Session Chair, VI Encuentros de Geometria Computacional,
Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain, July 5-7, 1995.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International
`94, Melbourne, Australia, June 27 - July 1, 1994.
- Session Chair, International Conference on Computer
Aided Geometric Design, July 4-8, 1994, Penang, Malaysia.
- Program Committee Member, Sixth Canadian Conference
on Computational Geometry, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, August 2-6, 1994.
- Organizer, Workshop on Geometric and Computational
Aspects of Manufacturing Processes, Bellairs Research Institute of
McGill University, Barbados, February 4-11, 1994.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International'93,
Lausanne, Switzerland, June 21-25, 1993.
- Session Chair, Session 7, Computational Geometry II,
Third International Conference on CAD and Computer Graphics, August
23-26, 1993, Beijing, China.
- Session Chair, Session 5A, Third Workshop on Algorithms
and Data Structures, August 11-13, 1993, Montreal, Canada.
- Session Chair, Session 6A, Third Workshop on Algorithms
and Data Structures, August 11-13, 1993, Montreal, Canada.
- Session Chair, Session 2A, Fifth Canadian Conference
on Computational Geometry, August 5-9, 1993, University of Waterloo,
Canada.
- Session Chair, Session 4B, Fifth Canadian Conference
on Computational Geometry, August 5-9, University of Waterloo, Canada.
- Session Chair, Session on Geometric Modelling, Computer
Graphics International'93, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 21-25, 1993.
- Program Committee Member, 9th Annual ACM Symposium
on Computational Geometry, San Diego, May 18-21, 1993.
- Session Chair, 9th Annual ACM Symposium on Computational
Geometry, San Diego, May 18-21, 1993.
- Organizer, Workshop on Geometric and Computational
Aspects of Injection Molding, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill
University, Barbados, February 5-11, 1993.
- Session Chair, Fourth Canadian Conference on Computational
Geometry, St. Johns, Newfoundland, August 10-14, 1992.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International'92,
Tokyo, Japan, June 22-26, 1992.
- Program Committee Member, ICCI'92, 4th International
Conference on Computing and Information, Toronto, Canada, May 28-30,
1992.
- Session Chair, Séptimo Coloquio de Teoría
de las Gráficas, Combinatoria y sus Aplicaciones, Universidad
Autónoma de Zacatecas, México, February 28, 1992.
- Invited Participant, Workshop on Geometric Probing
Problems, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University, Holetown,
Barbados, February 8-14, 1992.
- Organizer, Workshop on Graph Theory and Computational
Geometry: Problems at the Interface, Bellairs Research Institute of
McGill University, Barbados, February 1-7, 1992.
- Session Chair, Material Morphology-Damage Modelling,
2nd Japan International Symposium of the Society for the Advancement
of Materials and Process Engineering, Chiba, Japan, December 11-14,
1991.
- Invited Participant, SPA Workshop on Computational
Geometry, Yugawara, Japan, December 10-12, 1991.
- Session Chair, Session 2B (Robotics), Third Canadian
Conference on Computational Geometry, Vancouver, August 6-10, 1991,
pp. 88-91.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International'91:
Visualization of Physical Phenomena, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA., June 24-28,
1991.
- Program Committee Member, IFIP Conference on Modelling
in Computer Graphics, University of Tokyo, April 1991.
- Organizer, Workshop on Computing Geometric Properties
of Arrangements, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University,
Barbados, February 1-8, 1991.
- Program Committee Member, 2nd Canadian Conference
on Computational Geometry, University of Ottawa, August 6-10, 1990.
- Session Chair, Session 3A, Separability-I, 2nd Canadian
Conference on Computational Geometry, University of Ottawa, August
6-10, 1990.
- Session Chair, Session 3B, Separability-II, 2nd Canadian
Conference on Computational Geometry, University of Ottawa, August
6-10, 1990.
- Session Chair, Problems & Solutions Session, 2nd
Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, University of Ottawa,
August 6-10, 1990.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International'90,
Singapore, June 26-30, 1990.
- Organizing Committee Member, Second Canadian Conference
on Computational Geometry, University of Ottawa, August 6-10, 1990.
- Session Chair, Session on Curves and Surfaces, Computer
Graphics International'90, Singapore, June 29, 1990.
- Organizer, Workshop on Illuminating Sets, Bellairs
Research Institute of McGill University, Barbados, February 3-9, 1990.
- Invited Participant, DIMACS Workshop on Geometric
Complexity, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., October 16-20, 1989.
- Session Chairman, First Canadian Conference on Computational
Geometry, McGill University, August 20-25, 1989.
- Co-Founder and Organizing Committee Member, First
Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry, McGill University, August
20-25, 1989.
- Organizer, Workshop on Minimal Spanning Covers of
Sets, Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University, Barbados, February
4-10, 1989.
- Program Committee Member, Computer Graphics International'88,
Geneva, Switzerland, May 24-27, 1988.
- Chairman, Session on Geometric Modeling, Computer
Graphics International'88, Geneva, Switzerland, May 24-27, 1988.
- Chairman, Session 11, Pattern Recognition in Practice
III, Amsterdam, May 18-20, 1988.
- Chairman, Session 12, Pattern Recognition in Practice
III, Amsterdam, May 18-20, 1988.
- Chairman, Session on Polyhedra, Third ACM Symposium
on Computational Geometry, University of Waterloo, June 8-10, 1987.
- Program Committee Member, Third ACM Symposium on Computational
Geometry, University of Waterloo, June 8-10, 1987.
- Chairman, Session on Computational Geometry, IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory, St. Jovite, Quebec,
September, 1983.
- Program Committee Member, IEEE International Symposium
on Information Theory, St. Jovite, Quebec, September, 1983.
- Panelist, On the Presence of Fuzziness, Vagueness, and
Approximation in Scientific Theories and Various Ways of Dealing with Them,
Second World Conference on Mathematics, Las Palmas, Spain, June
1982.
- Panelist, Classify or Describe, Second World Conference
on Mathematics, Las Palmas, Spain, June 1982.
- Chairman, Session on Pattern Recognition, IEEE International
Symposium on Information Theory, Les Arcs, France, June 1982.
- Panelist, Pattern Recognition-Theory and Practice, NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications,
Oxford University, April 1981.
- Panelist, Pattern Recognition and Education, NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications,
Oxford University, April 1981.
- Panelist, Hybrid Methods of Pattern Recognition, NATO
Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications,
Oxford University, April 1981.
- Chairman, Session on Geometric Methods, NATO Advanced
Study Institute on Pattern recognition Theory and Applications, Oxford
University, April 1981.
- Moderator, Panel Discussion on Decision Theoretic Methods,
NATO Advanced Study Institute on Pattern Recognition Theory and Applications,
Oxford University, April 1981.
- Chairman, Session on Line Drawing and Contour Analysis,
Fifth International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Miami, December
1980.
- Program Committee Member, Fifth International Conference
on Pattern Recognition, Miami, December 1980.
- Chairman, Session on Algorithms in Pattern Classification,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing,
June 1978, Chicago.
- Chairman, Session on Statistical Pattern Recognition,
Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, April
1978, Princeton, N.J
- Program Committee Member, IEEE Computer Society Conference
on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, June 1977, Troy, N.Y
- Chairman, Session on Statistical Pattern Recognition,
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Processing,
June 1977, Troy, N.Y
- Chairman, Session on Probability and Information Theory,
Conference of the Statistical Science Association of Canada, 1974,
Toronto.
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