Jörg-Rüdiger Wolfgang Sack (born in

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, Germany) is a professor of

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Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public university, public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to se ...

, where he holds the SUN–NSERC chair in Applied Parallel Computing.SUN–NSERC Chair in Applied Parallel Computing
Carleton University. Sack received a master's degree from the

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in 1979Sack's web site at Carleton
, retrieved 2009-11-20. and a Ph.D. in 1984 from

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, under the supervision of

Godfried Toussaint Godfried Theodore Patrick Toussaint (1944 – July 2019) was a Canadian computer scientist, a professor of computer science, and the head of the Computer Science Program at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates ...

. He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal '' Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications'', co-editor of the ''Handbook of Computational Geometry'' (Elsevier, 2000, ), and co-editor of the proceedings of the biennial Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS). He was a co-founding editor-in-chief of the open access '' Journal of Spatial Information Science'' but is no longer an editor there. Sack's research interests include computational geometry, parallel algorithms, and

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s.List of publications for Jörg-Rüdiger Sack at DBLP
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