Languages spoken and written: English,
Spanish, French
Languages largely forgotten: Portuguese,
Indonesian,
Flemish (mother tongue)
Positions:
Research Professor of
Computer Science: New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates, August 1, 2011-present.
Research Affiliate:
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.,
October 2009-present.
Editor, Computational Geometry: Theory and
Applications
Editor, Forma
Associate Editor, International Journal of
Computational
Geometry and Applications
Editorial Board, ISRN Geometry
Editorial Board, Journal of
Mathematics
and the
Arts
Editorial Board, Revista
Investigacion
Operacional
Advisory Panel Analytical Approaches
to World Music Journal
Advisory Board, IEEE Transactions on
Pattern Analysis
and Machine Intelligence
Main Past Professional
Positions:
Editor, Discrete and Computational Geometry
Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Editorial Board Member, The Visual Computer
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Pattern
Analysis
and Machine Intelligence
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory
Conferences and Workshops
Founded
and Organized:
Co-Founder (with
David
Dobkin,
Joseph O'Rourke and Franco Preparata), ACM
Annual
Symposium on Computational Geometry. The
first symposium was held in Baltimore, 5-7, June 1985.
Co-Founder (with
David
Avis), Annual
Canadian Conference on Computational Geometry. Organized
the first, tenth, and twentieth
conferences at McGill University in Montreal in August 1989, August
1998, and August 2007, respectively.
Founder, Organiser and
Co-Organizer (with Erik Demaine), Annual
Bellairs Winter Workshop on Computational Geometry. The first
workshop was held at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University
in
Barbados, February 1986.
Founder and Co-Organizer
(with Dmitri Tymoczko), Annual
Bellairs Winter Workshop on Mathematics and Music. The first
workshop was held at Bellairs Research Institute of McGill University
in
Barbados, February 2009.
Co-Founder (with
Antonio Mesa) Cuban
Workshop on Algorithms and Data Structures, The first
workshop was held at Universidad de La Habana, Cuba, May 2001, the second
was held in the same place in April 2003, and the third
in April 2004.
Co-Founder (with
Francisco Gomez) International
Workshop on Computational Music Theory, The first
workshop was held at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Escuela
Universitaria
de Informatica, Madrid, Spain, July 2003. The second, third
, and fourth
were held at the same location in June 2004, June 2005, and July 2006,
respectively. The fifth
was held at ESMUC,
Barcelona, July 16-20, 2007.
Distinguished Service
Award
for "outstanding contribution to research and education in
Computational
Geometry," CIPPRS,
May 1996, Award ceremony at banquet of Vision Interface'96 in
Toronto.
Vice-Chancellor's
Research
Best-Practice
Fellowship, October 1995, University of Newcastle,
Australia,
1995.
Editorial Service Award,
Pattern Recognition Society, 1993.
ASI Fellowship
from the
B.C. Advanced Systems Institute (1988).
OutstandingPaper
Certificate
awarded in 1980 by the Pattern Recognition Society for the
manuscript:
Godfried T. Toussaint, "The relative neighborhood graph of a
finite planar
set," Pattern
Recognition, Vol. 12, 1980, pp. 261-268.
Best-Paper-of-the-Year
Award from
the Pattern Recognition Society for the manuscript:
Godfried T. Toussaint, "The use of context in pattern recognition," Pattern
Recognition, Vol.
10, 1978, pp. 189-204.
British Columbia
Telephone
Company
Graduate Scholarship, Department of
Electrical
Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1968.
Teaching Fellowship,
Department of Electrical Engineering, University
of Tulsa, Tulsa, U.S.A., 1968.
Texaco Scholarship,
University
of Tulsa, Tulsa, U.S.A., 1966 and 1967.
M.A.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University
of British Columbia, Vancouver, B. C., 1970. Thesis: Machine
Recognition of Independent and Contextually Constrained Contour-Traced
Handprinted Characters. Supervisor: Professor Robert
W. Donaldson.
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, University
of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S.A., 1968. Senior Thesis: Threshold
Logic Network Synthesis. Supervisor: Professor Harold Smith.
