Martin Wattenberg, a computer scientist and artist, is the founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab.

The lab researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab’s latest project is many-eyes.com, an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis.

Before joining IBM, Wattenberg was the director of research and development at SmartMoney.com, a joint venture of Dow Jones and Hearst.

Wattenberg is known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art.

Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley. He lives in Winchester, Mass.