Michael Fielding Barnsley (born 1946)[1] is a British mathematician, researcher and an entrepreneur who has worked on fractal compression; he holds several patents on the technology.
[3] In 1987 he founded Iterated Systems Incorporated, and in 1988 he published a book entitled Fractals Everywhere and in 2006 SuperFractals.
It was acquired in 2003 by Interwoven, by which time Barnsley was no longer affiliated with the company.
As of 2005, he is on the faculty of the Mathematical Sciences Institute of the Australian National University.
[4] Barnsley previously held a faculty position at Georgia Tech.