Every year, the alphaWorks teams seeks out new developments in IBM Research labs around the world, new areas of focus, new themes, and new standards. And every year, we have the opportunity to work with researchers who turn forward-looking concepts into emerging technologies. Now, meet some of the researchers who helped to develop the visualization technologies showcased in this Research Topics series.
Martin Wattenberg, History Flow Visualization Application
 Martin Wattenberg is a mathematician whose research interests include information visualization and its application to collaborative computing, journalism, bioinformatics, and art. Before joining IBM, Dr. Wattenberg was the Director of Research and Development at SmartMoney.com, where he designed internet-based financial software. His work at SmartMoney included the groundbreaking Map of the Market, which visualizes live data on hundreds of publicly traded companies.
Dr. Wattenberg has also worked with a variety of nonfinancial data, such as email archives, DNA sequences, and more. In addition, he is well known for artistic data visualization, which involves visualizing such disparate information sources as music, museum collections, and Web searches. His artwork has been exhibited internationally at such places as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum, and Ars Electronica. Dr. Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Learn more about the History Flow Visualization Application available on alphaWorks.
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Wim De Pauw, Web Services Navigator
 Wim De Pauw received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Ghent, Belgium, in 1991. Since 1992, he has been a Research Staff member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he has lead several software visualization projects, such as Ovation (C++ visualization) and Jinsight (Java visualization). Jinsight technology is now part of IBM's WebSphere Studio Application Developer and parts of it have been released under the open-source project Hyades. Dr. De Pauw is currently the architect and technical leader of the Web Services Navigator.
Dr. De Pauw's research interests include software visualization, Web services, Service-Oriented Architecture, pattern extraction, profiling, and debugging. His scientific interests include addressing large horizontal complexities in systems by using visualization, pattern extraction, and adaptive tracing techniques. He publishes articles in refereed journals, he chairs conferences, and he holds several patents in the area of software visualization, tracing, and debugging.
Please see the Q&A with Dr. De Pauw on the topic of visualization.
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James Kaufman, Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler
 Dr. James H. Kaufman is a Research Manager in the Department of Computer Science at the IBM Almaden Research Center. He is currently a leader of an IBM project focused on creating the technologies for an Interoperable Healthcare Information Infrastructure. Dr. Kaufman is a fellow of the American Physical Society. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from U.C.S.B. and his B.A. in Physics from Cornell University.
During his scientific career at IBM Research, Dr. Kaufman has made contributions to several fields, such as grid computing, distributed computing, simulation science, magnetic device technology, superconductivity, and experimental studies of the Moon Illusion. His current research interests include Interoperable Health Information Infrastructure, Electronic Health Records, and Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeling.
Learn more about the Spatiotemporal Epidemiological Modeler, available here on alphaWorks.
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