Marc Johan van Kreveld is a Dutch computational geometer, known as one of the authors of the textbook ''Computational Geometry: Algorithms and Applications'' (with Mark de Berg, Otfried Cheong, and

Mark Overmars Markus Hendrik "Mark" Overmars (; born 29 September 1958) is a Dutch computer scientist and teacher of game programming known for his game development application GameMaker. GameMaker allows users to create computer games using a drag-and-drop ...

, Springer, 1997; 3rd ed., 2008). Van Kreveld completed his Ph.D. in 1992 at

Utrecht University Utrecht University (UU; , formerly ''Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht'') is a public university, public research university in Utrecht, Netherlands. Established , it is one of the oldest universities in the Netherlands. In 2023, it had an enrollment of ...

. His dissertation, ''New Results on Data Structures in Computational Geometry'', was supervised by

. He is a professor of computer science at Utrecht University. With Ferran Hurtado, van Kreveld was co-chair of the 2011

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. He has also worked in

geographic information system A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and Geographic information system software, software that store, manage, Spatial analysis, analyze, edit, output, and Cartographic design, visualize Geographic data ...

s, and (with Jürg Nievergelt, Thomas Roos, and Peter Widmayer) is the author of the textbook ''Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems'' (Springer, 1997).

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