Autor/-in: Hanson Andrew J.

Andrew J. Hanson Ph. D. is an Emeritus Professor of Computer Science at Indiana University. He earned a bachelor's degree in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University in 1966 and a PhD in Theoretical Physics from MIT under Kerson Huang in 1971. His interests range from general relativity to computer graphics, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics; he is particularly concerned with applications of quaternions and with exploitation of higher-dimensional graphics for the visualization of complex scientific contexts such as Calabi-Yau spaces. He is the co-discoverer of the Eguchi-Hanson "gravitational instanton. Einstein metric (1978), author of Visualizing Quaternions (Elsevier, 2006), and designer of the iPhone Apps "4Dice. and "4DRoom. (2012) for interacting with four-dimensional virtual reality.