Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Who is Jörg-Rüdiger Sack?

Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack is a professor of computer science at Carleton University, where he holds the SUN–NSERC chair in Applied Parallel Computing. Sack received a masters degree from the University of Bonn in 1979 and a Ph.D. in 1984 from McGill University, under the supervision of Godfried Toussaint. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journals Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications and the Journal of Spatial Information Science, co-editor of the Handbook of Computational Geometry, and co-editor of the proceedings of the biennial Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium. Sack's research interests include computational geometry, parallel algorithms, and geographic information systems.