Tableau Software Co-founder Elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

May 2007

Tableau Software Co-founder Elected to The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Dr. Pat Hanrahan Joins Distinguished Class of Scholars, Scientists, and Civic Leaders.

SEATTLE, May 31, 2007 – Tableau Software, the global leader in visual analysis software, today announced that Tableau Co-founder and CTO Pat Hanrahan has been elected to the 2007 Class of Fellows by The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. The Academy was established in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other American leaders "to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people. The announcement was made at the Academy’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

The membership of the Academy encompasses 4,000 Fellows and 600 Foreign Honorary Members and reflects the full range of disciplines: mathematics, the physical and biological sciences, medicine, the social sciences and humanities, business, government, public affairs, and the arts. Among its Fellows are more than 160 Nobel Prize laureates and 50 Pulitzer Prize winners. Nomination to the Academy is a privilege restricted to the Fellowship."It was my enormous privilege to nominate Pat for inclusion in this illustrious group," said Dr. Ed Lazowska, the Bill & Melinda Gates Chair in Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Dr. Lazowska is also a Fellow of The American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

"Throughout its history, the Academy has convened the leading thinkers of the day, from diverse perspectives, to participate in projects and studies that advance the public good," said Chief Executive Officer Leslie Berlowitz." I am confident that this distinguished class of new Fellows will continue that tradition of cherishing knowledge and shaping the future.”

In addition to Dr. Hanrahan, this year’s class of new Fellows includes former Vice President Albert Gore, Jr.; former Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor; New York Mayor and businessman Michael Bloomberg; Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt; New York Times investigative correspondent James Risen; filmmaker Spike Lee; economists Gregory Mankiw and Murray Weidenbaum; astronomer Donald Brownlee; robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks; Pixar Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter; supercomputer expert David Shaw; pianist Emanuel Ax; historian Nell Painter; former White House official and Berkeley Law Dean Christopher Edley; classicist Sabine MacCormack; and international public health leader Allan Rosenfield.

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