Cormac Kinney
| Cormac Kinney | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Cormac Kinney June 18, 1971 St. Louis, Missouri |
| Residence | New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Software inventions |
Cormac Kinney is an entrepreneur and software designer. Inventor of Heatmaps, institutional trading systems, quantitative news analysis for trading, a publisher social network, and wireless diamond technology. His inventions have been cited in over 1,500 US Patents.
He grew up in University City, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, the oldest of six children. Graduated from Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering, earning Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Industrial Management, and a Master of Science in Industrial Administration and Finance in 5 years, skipping one year of college, but leaving a Software Engineering degree uncompleted.
He has lived in Manhattan, New York City since 1994.
As a student at Carnegie Mellon, Kinney founded two small software companies in succession, sold to Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co., and H.J. Heinz. Both were related to optimization.
While a graduate student at CMU, he became a founding member of the Carnegie Mellon Fast Lab consortium, a real time trading simulation using trading floor data and technology, subsequently expanded to universities in 20 countries. The Smithsonian Institution awarded the Fast Lab consortium the ComputerWorld Smithsonian Award. In addition to his research there, he contributed the state of the art fibre-optic networking equipment used by the Lab. His research focused on visualization for financial markets, and culminated in the invention of Heatmaps in 1993.
In 1993, with Carnegie Mellon Senior Research Scientist, Marc H. Graham, Kinney founded NeoVision Hypersystems, Inc. to develop and market the Heatmaps technology. NeoVision Heatmaps are a real time middleware and computation platform with a now-familiar colorful visual interface. With the Heatmaps platform, specialized trading, risk management and broker monitoring applications were built, consolidating vast amounts real time and static data.
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