Bernt Rainer Wahl is a mathematician, entrepreneur and author. He served as CEO Factle Corporation, CEO Datahunt, CEO Dynamic Software, and is part of the UC Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 Faculty. He teaches Engineering, where he serves as an Industry Fellow at the Center of Entrepreneurship and Technology. In 2002, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship

Fulbright Program

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 to Malaysia.

Bernt Wahl was an early pioneer in the field of Chaos and Fractal Geometry

Fractal

A fractal has been defined as "a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole," a property called self-similarity...

 and authored Exploring Fractals (1994) and co-authored The Fractal Explorer (1991). His firm Dynamic Software (1987) -- which he co-founded with Peter Van Roy—was an early pioneer in mathematical visualization. The work was showcased in the fashion industry

Fashion

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 including work with the designer Jhane Barnes.

In 2001, Bernt Wahl led the management buyout

Management buyout

A management buyout is a form of acquisition where a company's existing managers acquire a large part or all of the company.- Overview :Management buyouts are similar in all major legal aspects to any other acquisition of a company...

 attempt of the search engine company Infoseek through the firm Datahunt. In 2002 he started Factle a search engine

Search engine

A search engine is an information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system. The search results are usually presented in a list and are commonly called hits. Search engines help to minimize the time required to find information and the amount of information...

 focused on specialized search and local demographics. His pioneering work on neighborhood boundaries has become a standard in doing localized demographic analysis.

Wahl worked for United Nations

United Nations

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 on Ecotourism

Ecotourism

Ecotourism is a form of tourism visiting fragile, pristine, and usually protected areas, intended as a low impact and often small scale alternative to standard commercial tourism...

 and he helped the U.S. National Park Service build its first website. He is also involved in social causes including the work done by The International Justice Mission

International Justice Mission

International Justice Mission is a U.S.-based non-profit human rights organization that operates in countries all over the world to rescue victims of individual human rights abuse. IJM works to combat human trafficking including the commercial sexual exploitation of children, forced labor...

, and various other organizations’ work on the global dissemination of information.