caption doctoral_advisor thesis_year nationality name birth_date thesis_url image article_title birth_name occupation thesis_title
geometer puzzle '' george w. hart with his `` 12-part sculpture fred c. schweppe and john n. tsitsiklis 1987 american george w. hart 1955 http://mit.dspace.org/handle/1721.1/14792 george-hart-puzzle2 . jpg george w. hart
 george william hart geometer minimum information estimation of structure
george w. hart

george william hart -lrb- born 1955 -rrb- is an american geometer who expresses himself both artistically and academically .
he is also a research professor in the department of computer science at the state university of new york in stony brook , new york .
his artistic work includes sculpture , computer images , toys -lrb- e.g. zome -rrb- and puzzles .
his sculptures have been featured in articles in `` the new york times '' , `` games '' , `` science news '' , `` science '' , `` tiede '' -lrb- finnish -rrb- , `` ars et mathesis '' -lrb- dutch -rrb- , '' Наука и жизнь '' -lrb- russian -rrb- and other publications around the world .
his academic work includes the online publication encyclopedia of polyhedra , the text book `` multidimensional analysis '' , and the instruction book `` zome geometry '' .
he has also published over sixty academic articles .
hart is a co-founder of north america 's only museum of mathematics , momath , in new york city .
as chief of content , he set the `` math is cool ! ''
tone of the museum and spent five years designing original exhibits and workshop activities for it .
hart is a coinventor on two us patents , `` digital ac monitor '' and `` non-intrusive appliance monitor apparatus '' .
these patents cover , in part , an improved electrical meter for homes called nonintrusive load monitors .
these meters track changes in voltage and current usage by a given household and then deduce which appliances are using how much electricity and when .
hart received a b.s. in mathematics from mit -lrb- 1977 -rrb- , an m.a. in linguistics from indiana university -lrb- 1979 -rrb- , and a ph.d. in electrical engineering and computer science from mit -lrb- 1987 -rrb- .
