SAGE BOF at SC14 now posted online
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas Marrinan December 18, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: Download the SAGE™/SAGE2™ BOF presentation at SC14 SAGE BIRDS OF A FEATHER (BOF): Scalable Adaptive Graphics… Read more |
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Human Augmentics Situation Awareness Enhancement
Victor Mateevitsi, Committee: Prof. Andrew Johnson (chair) Prof. Robert Kenyon Prof. Steve Jones Prof. Jason Leigh Prof. Luc Renambot December 17, 2014 EVL PhD candidate Victor Mateevitsi discusses his proposed thesis research on Human Augmentics at his preliminary presentation. Date: Wednesday… Read more |
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‘Draw me a picture,’ say scientists; computer may respond
Jason Leigh, Jillian Aurisano, Yiwen Sun, Barbara Di Eugenio (PI), Leland Wilkinson December 17, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: The following news release was posted to UIC NEWS on December 17, 2014. It describes NSF award #IIS-1445796 for… Read more |
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Effective Space Organization Design for Large High-resolution Environment
Committee: Dr. Andrew Johnson, Chair and advisor Dr. Jason Leigh Dr. Thomas Moher Dr. Steve Johnes (Dept. of Communication) Dr. Derrick Mancini (Argonne National Laboratory) December 9, 2014 Date: Tuesday, Dec 9, 2014 Time: 1:00 PM These days vast amounts of information are continuously being created. By analyzing these data, we could… Read more |
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Say it slowly: ‘Audio dilation’ could enhance hearing comprehension
December 4, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are excerpts from a recent article by Northwestern University journalism student Michael Epstein on the audio dilation… Read more |
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UIC / EVL is building a camera that sees 360 degrees in 3D
Daniel J. Sandin, Harlyn Baker November 24, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: UIC received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation entitled “Development of the Sensor Environment… Read more |
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UIC Pathology uses EVL software to expand on ‘what you see is what you get’
Bruce Levy, M.D., Associate Professor of UIC Clinical Pathology, Director of the UIC Clinical Informatics Program, Associate Director of the UIC Pathology Residency Program, and Associate Chief Health Information Officer of the University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System November 24, 2014 The College of American Pathologists (CAP), the leading organization of board-certified pathologists, publishes the monthly newspaper “CAP… Read more |
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SAVE THE DATE: SAGE Meeting at SC14 - Introducing SAGE2
November 18, 2014 For those attending SC14 in New Orleans, Louisiana, we will hold the annual “Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment (SAGE) for Global… Read more |
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Virtual reality room brings the brain, Mars and research into CAVE2
November 13, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: Here are excerpts from a recent article by Northwestern University journalism student Michael Epstein on the UIC Electronic… Read more |
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IEEE Vis 2014 Presentation (Visual Analytics Science and Technology - VAST)
Tuan Dang, Leland Wilkinson November 11, 2014 EVL post-doctoral research associate, Tuan Dang presents his research in high-dimensional visual analytics at the IEEE Vis 2014 Conference in the… Read more |
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UIC Computer Science is one of the 50 most innovative U.S. Computer Science Departments
November 10, 2014 University of Illinois at Chicago’s Computer Science Department has been ranked one of the 50 Most Innovative Computer Science Departments in… Read more |
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EVL Student Recognized in 2014 UIC Image of Research Competition
Arthur Nishimoto November 6, 2014 This year, UIC Computer Science PhD student and Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) research assistant Arthur Nishimoto received an Honorable… Read more |
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Proximity Sensing Microphone System / Plasma Sound Generation
Steve Sobanski, Shure November 4, 2014 Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 5:00 - 6:00 pm EVL Cyber-Commons, Room 2068 UIC Engineering Research Facility The Audio Engineering Society UIC student… Read more |
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SAGE2 Trailer 2014
October 28, 2014 Announcing SAGE2 - to be premiered at SC14. See the SAGE2 (Scalable Amplified Group Environment) trailer on YouTube! This trailer was also posted to… Read more |
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Catching up with EVL alumna Copper Giloth: Labyrinth of Fables
Copper Giloth, Jonathan Tanant October 23, 2014 Copper Giloth received her MFA from the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), a formal joint program of the School of Art & Design and the… Read more |
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Collaborative Computing (CollaborateCom 2014)
Thomas Marrinan October 22, 2014 - October 25, 2014 EVL PhD candidate Thomas Marrinan presents “SAGE2: A New Approach for Data Intensive Collaboration Using Scalable Resolution Shared… Read more |
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Blewett Presents Audio Research in VR at the 137th AES Convention
Bryan Dalle Molle, James Pinkl, Mark Blewett October 9, 2014 - October 12, 2014 The Audio Engineering Society is the professional society for audio technologists. With over 14,000 members world-wide, AES serves its community by… Read more |
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Science 2034 features UIC / EVL Maxine Brown on “smart” rooms of the future
Maxine Brown September 24, 2014 Maxine Brown, director of the EVL (Electronic Visualization Lab), has contributed a blog and podcast to Science 2034. The Science 2034 website is a… Read more |
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Kevin Lynch, Apple VP of Technology, credits his UIC / EVL student days with teaching him creativity
September 17, 2014 At the Apple Special Event, September 2014, Kevin Lynch, vice president of technology at Apple, introduced Apple Watch. Lynch now runs the team… Read more |
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EVL of UIC Computer Science Department receives new $3 million grant from NSF
Daniel J. Sandin, Harlyn Baker, PI: Maxine Brown, Director of EVL Co-PIs: Robert V. Kenyon, Andrew E. Johnson, Tanya Berger-Wolf September 16, 2014 UIC received a $3 million award from the National Science Foundation entitled “Development of the Sensor Environment Imaging (SENSEI)… Read more |
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Networked On-Line Audio Dilation
John Novak III September 13, 2014 - September 17, 2014 EVL PhD candidate, John S. Novak III demonstrates his Audio Dilation research at the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and… Read more |
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Seventh International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2), 2014
Huy A. Bui September 12, 2014 EVL PhD candidate, Huy Bui presents his research with collaborators at Argonne National Laboratory on the investigation of the performance of sparse… Read more |
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Dave Meeker, Vice President of Experience and Innovation, Isobar US
Jakub Misterka, Senior Interactive Developer, Isobar US September 10, 2014 September 10, 2014 at 1pm Isobar’s Vice President of Experience and Innovation will present Isobar’s current projects in an effort to… Read more |
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EVL’s Alan Turing avatar educates at Orlando Science Center
Sangyoon Lee September 2, 2014 EDITOR’S NOTE: The Orlando Science Center worked with the University of Central Florida (UCF) and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)… Read more |
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EVL Announces New Faculty Member: Angus Forbes
Angus Forbes August 28, 2014 Angus Forbes, PhD, has joined the faculty of the Computer Science Department and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of… Read more |
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WIFIRE helps firefighters get a jump on wildfires
August 5, 2014 SAGE™ middleware, the Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment, is being used by researchers to better convey related and relevant information to… Read more |
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EAGER: Collaborative Research: Articulate: Augmenting Data Visualization With Natural Language Interaction
Barbara Di Eugenio, Andy Johnson, Leland Wilkinson (University of Illinois at Chicago); Jason Leigh (University of Hawaii) July 25, 2014 UIC Computer Science faculty members Barbara Di Eugenio (PI), Andy Johnson (co-PI) and Adjunct CS Professor Leland Wilkinson (co-PI) have been… Read more |
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SpiderSense at Adler After Dark
Victor Mateevitsi July 17, 2014 EVL PhD candidate Victor Mateevitsi demonstrated SpiderSense and presented his research in Human Augmentics to Planetarium visitors Thursday July… Read more |
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ABC Channel 7’s “The Gadget Patrol” features interview with UIC / EVL Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson July 9, 2014 The ABC Channel 7 10pm news, on July 9, 2014, did a story on “The Gadget Patrol” that focused on how today’s police officers are… Read more |
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Exploratory Visual Analysis in Large High-Resolution Display Environments
Khairi Reda, Committee: Dr. Jason Leigh, Chair and advisor Dr. Andrew Johnson Dr. Thomas Moher Dr. Stellan Ohlsson (Dept. of Psychology) Dr. Michael E. Papka (Argonne National Laboratory) July 2, 2014 Date: Wednesday, July 2, 2014 Time: 2:00 PM Abstract: As society continues to generate escalating quantities of data, there is an increasing demand… Read more |
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George Lucas has deep roots in Chicago
June 25, 2014 On June 25, 2014, in the article “Lucas gives Chicago top billing,” the Chicago Tribune reported that George Lucas selected Chicago over… Read more |
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Monash: In the cave of high science
Paul Bonnington, director; David Barnes, senior research fellow (Monash eResearch Centre) June 19, 2014 The first customer to buy a CAVE2™ system from Mechdyne Corporation, the company that licensed the technology from the UIC Electronic… Read more |
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Pushing the Limits of Technology While Giving Back to the Community Through Mentorship
Alessandro Febretti, Victor Mateevitsi June 18, 2014 Spark Chicago motivates and nurtures underserved youth through after-school mentorship and volunteer programs. And so it happened that two… Read more |
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UIC / EVL’s CAVE2 featured in Discover magazine, July / August 2014 issue
June 18, 2014 Discover magazine’s July / August 2014 issue features the story “Fantastic Voyages: Immersive 3-D environments give researchers a chance… Read more |
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Battlefield Torture, Climate Change, and Immersive Narrative - EVL presents two provocative new artworks
Arthur Nishimoto, Daria Tsoupikova, Lance Long, Arthur Nishimoto, Lance Long - University of Illinois at Chicago; Roderick Coover, Mark Partridge - Temple University; Scott Rettberg - University of Bergen, Norway June 17, 2014 - July 7, 2014 Tuesday, June 17th, 3-5 PM Monday, July 7th, 4-6 PM The Electronic Visualization Lab (EVL) at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is pleased to… Read more |
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ANALOG DREAMSCAPE:
Video & Computer Art in Chicago 1973-1985 Daniel J. Sandin June 13, 2014 Friday, June 13th @ 7pm University of Illinois at Chicago Institute for the Humanities 701 South Morgan, Lower Level - Stevenson Hall Chicago, IL… Read more |
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OPTIQ: An optimization and QoS framework for data movement in data-centric applications on supercomputers
Huy A. Bui, PhD preliminary exam committee: Ugo Buy, Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Lenambot, Venkatram Vishwanath (Argonne National Lab) May 12, 2014 Huy Bui PhD Prelim Exam Monday, May 12, 2:30pm I propose a holistic approach to optimize throughput and provide prioritization of data flows in… Read more |
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Crain’s “20 In Their 20s” features UIC / EVL’s Victor Mateevitsi
Victor Mateevitsi May 5, 2014 Twenty innovative Chicagoans are featured in the May 5, 2014 issue of Crain’s Chicago Business, in the article “20 In Their 20s” by… Read more |
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UIC Physics professor Fatemeh Khalili receives allocation on Blue Waters supercomputer
Fatemeh Khalili, UIC Physics May 5, 2014 Fatemeh Khalili, an assistant professor of physics at UIC, needing access to advanced supercomputing power to further her research in computational… Read more |
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Diving into Big Data: UIC showcase at Harold Washington Library
Leilah Lyons May 1, 2014 Thursday, May 1, 2014, 5:00-7:00pm, in the lobby of Chicago’s Harold Washington Library, UIC will host an interactive installation that engages… Read more |
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UIC / EVL one of the “Proud to be Sustainable” Photo Contest winners
Andrew Johnson April 29, 2014 April 29 2014, the UIC Office of Sustainability celebrated the results of its “Proud to be Sustainable” Photo Contest at the UIC African… Read more |
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EVL’s Dan Sandin exhibiting at Filmatic Festival at UC San Diego
Daniel J. Sandin April 24, 2014 - April 27, 2014 Dan Sandin, co-founder and director emeritus of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is one of the… Read more |
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UIC’s Victor Mateevitsi participates in 1871’s Startup 101 entrepreneurial program for students
Victor Mateevitsi April 4, 2014 - April 6, 2014 Victor Mateevitsi, a computer science PhD student and a research assistant at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at the University of… Read more |
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Ultra-miniature Lensless Computational Imagers and Sensors
David G. Stork, Rambus Labs March 7, 2014 ABSTRACT We describe a new class of computational optical sensors and imagers that do not rely on traditional refractive or reflective focusing but… Read more |
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The CAVE artists
March 4, 2014 The article “The CAVE artists” was recently published in Nature Medicine, Vol. 20, 2014, pp. 228-230, doi:10.1038/nm0314-228. The article… Read more |
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EVL to play a role in the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute
February 25, 2014 UI LABS, an initiative begun more than two years ago by the University of Illinois drawing on the expertise on its three campuses, has been awarded a… Read more |
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Delivering Science at the Petascale: High-Performance Computing at Argonne National Laboratory
Michael E. Papka February 14, 2014 Friday, February 14th, 2PM EVL alumn, Dr. Michael E. Papka, Deputy Associate, Laboratory Director Computing, Environment, and Life Sciences (CELS)… Read more |
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Huy Bui Presents Scalable Parallel I/O on a Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer
Huy A. Bui February 12, 2014 EVL PhD candidate Huy Bui presents his collaborative research with colleagues at Argonne National Laboratory at the 22nd Euromicro International… Read more |
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Seeing future of technology in Google Glass
Victor Mateevitsi February 11, 2014 In its February 11, 2014 issue, UIC NEWS features a story about UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) PhD student Victor Mateevitsi and the… Read more |
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NY TIMES: Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape
January 26, 2014 Sunday, January 26, 2014, the New York Times had a blog / story entitled “Disruptions: The Holodeck Begins to Take Shape,” by journalist… Read more |
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UIC Welcome Video 2014: Virtually Anything is Possible at UIC
January 23, 2014 The UIC Office of the Chancellor, wanting to produce a promotional Welcome Video for new students with a “wow” factor - turned to the UIC… Read more |
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EVL leaders ready to tackle “big data challenges”
January 22, 2014 This week’s UIC NEWS has the following story; it is reprinted below. Also, see the full news story. Jeanne Galatzer-Levy January 21, 2014… Read more |
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Introducing the new SAGE™ Forum website
January 6, 2014 The new SAGE Forum website, now available on LinkedIn, has been created to better serve the SAGE User Community. Please take a moment to join the… Read more |
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National Geographic Kids book features UIC / EVL SpiderSense
Victor Mateevitsi, Brad Haggadone (UIC Communications), Brian Kunzer (UIC Bioengineering), Jason Leigh & Robert Kenyon (UIC Computer Science, Electronic Visualization Laboratory) January 1, 2014 National Geographic publishes a series of reference books for Kids entitled “Weird but True!”. In Summer, 2014, National Geographic came… Read more |