Jörg-Rüdiger Sack

Jörg-Rüdiger Sack at WADS 2015

Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack (born in Duisburg, Germany) is a professor of computer science at Carleton University, where he is Chancellor's Professor. </ref> Sack received a master's degree from the University of Bonn in 1979^[1] and a Ph.D. in 1984 from McGill University, under the supervision of Godfried Toussaint.^[2] He is co-editor-in-chief and executive editor of the journal Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications,^[3] co-editor of the Handbook of Computational Geometry (Elsevier, 2000, ISBN 978-0-444-82537-7), and co-editor of the proceedings of the biennial Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS).^[4] He was a co-founding editor-in-chief of the open access Journal of Spatial Information Science but is no longer an editor there.^[5] Sack's research interests include computational geometry, data structures and geographic information systems.^[1][6]

References

1. Sack's web site at Carleton Archived 2010-02-13 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 2009-11-20.
2. Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
3. Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications journal description from publisher's web site, retrieved 2009-11-20.
4. WADS at DBLP, retrieved 2009-11-21.
5. Journal of Spatial Information Science, retrieved 2020-02-14.
6. List of publications for Jörg-Rüdiger Sack at DBLP.