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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2011 Inaugural Edition of the UIC OVCR Annual Report
December 20, 2012 EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2011 inaugural edition of the Annual Report from the UIC Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research (OVCR) describes the… Read more |
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Afterlife as Afterimage, Steve Jones
Steve Jones April 18, 2012 Steve Jones, UIC Communications professor, is a long-time EVL collaborator. His new book, Afterlife as Afterimage, based on his interest in… Read more |
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Supervised Hybrid Expression Control Framework for a Lifelike Affective Avatar
Sangyoon Lee, Advisor: Andrew Johnson, Committee: Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Barbara Eugenio, Steve Jones September 2, 2011 EVL PhD candidate Sangyoon Lee presents his preliminary examination for doctoral dissertation: Friday, September 2, 2011, 10AM, EVL Cyber-Commons… Read more |
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Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and…
Project LifeLike research team April 19, 2011 In the new book Infinite Reality: Avatars, Eternal Life, New Worlds, and the Dawn of the Virtual Revolution, Jim Blascovich and Jeremy Bailenson take… Read more |
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Seagate donates equipment to UIC / EVL after viewing Leigh’s profile on NOVA
Jason Leigh February 17, 2011 The CEO of Seagate Technology, a leading provider of data storage devices, happened to be watching television one night a few weeks ago and saw Jason… Read more |
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PROFILE: UIC / EVL’S JASON LEIGH ON PBS
Jason Leigh January 18, 2011 - January 26, 2011 Your body can’t live forever, says computer scientist Jason Leigh, but your mind still can - as an avatar. Leigh, a professor in the Department… Read more |
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IVA 2010
Sangyoon Lee September 20, 2010 - September 22, 2010 Ph.D. candidate, Sangyoon Lee presents EVL’s research on creating LifeLike avatars at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual… Read more |
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Images capture the beauty of graduate students’ research
Sangyoon Lee July 21, 2010 by Christy Levy UIC NEWS announced the winners of the third annual Image of Research contest, highlighting first-place winner Sangyoon Lee, a PhD… Read more |
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Immortal Avatars: Back Up Your Brain, Never Die
EVL faculty, staff, and students June 7, 2010 The June 7, 2010 issue of “New Scientist” magazine has an article by Linda Geddes on current research to create lifelike digital… Read more |
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Project LifeLike Received First Place in the UIC Image of Research 2010 Competition
Sangyoon Lee April 6, 2010 Sanyoon Lee, a PhD student in the UIC Department of Computer Science and a Research Assistant in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), won… Read more |
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The High-Tech Future of Body Language
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, and collaborators at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Computer Architecture Laboratory October 22, 2009 The October 22, 2009 edition of the WASHINGTON POST has an article by Carol Kinsey Goman on “The High-Tech Future of Body Language”… Read more |
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Popular Science’s Future Of Immortality
Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, and collaborators at the University of Central Florida (UCF) Intelligent Systems Laboratory and Computer Architecture Laboratory October 19, 2009 October 19, 2009 - The Discovery Network’s Science Channel airs the series “POPULAR SCIENCE’S FUTURE OF.” Hosted by author… Read more |
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Popular Science’s: Future of Immortality program features EVL’s LifeLike Avatar Research
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Sangyoon Lee, Steve Jones, (EVL), Avelino J Gonzalez, Ronald F DeMara (University of Central Florida) October 12, 2009 - October 14, 2009 Popular Science’s: Future of Immortality program that airs October 12th through 14th on Discovery’s “The Science Channel”… Read more |
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The Next Best Thing to You
Jason Leigh, EVL research staff, Avelino Gonzalez, Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University of Central Florida May 15, 2009 Link to the full NSF press release Also posted to U.S. News & World Report May 15, 2009 New avatar technology combines advances in artificial… Read more |
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Project LifeLike at NSF I/UCRC Meeting 2009
Andrew Johnson, Gordon Carlson, Jason Leigh, Sangyoon Lee January 7, 2009 - January 9, 2009 EVL demonstrates Project LifeLike at the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) annual Industry & University Cooperative Research (I/UCRC)… Read more |
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UIC Working on Making Virtual Chats a Reality
Jason Leigh June 4, 2007 Chicago Tribune INSIDE TECHNOLOGY UIC Working on Making Virtual Chats a Reality By Jon Van June 4, 2007 In five or six years, you probably will be… Read more |
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Avatar Experts Pursued in NSF Research Effort
Jason Leigh, EVL staff and students March 14, 2007 - March 20, 2007 Please click this link to view the full text article R. Colin Johnson, EE Times, PORTLAND, Ore. - The National Science Foundation (NSF) is funding… Read more |
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Virtual Reality for Virtual Eternity
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Sangyoon Lee, Thomas A. DeFanti, Steve Jones and Gordon Carlson (UIC / Communication), Avelino Gonzalez and Ron Demarr (University of Central Florida / CFU) March 12, 2007 - March 25, 2007 Please click this link to view the full text article UIC News Release March 12, 2007 CONTACT: Paul Francuch, (312) 996-3457, francuch @ uic.edu… Read more |
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NSF Funds EVL & Collaborators to Develop a Methodology for Creating Intelligent Digital Humans
Andrew Johnson, Jason Leigh, Luc Renambot, Maxine Brown, Thomas A. DeFanti, Steve Jones and Gordon Carlson (UIC / Communication), Avelino Gonzalez and Ron Demarr (University of Central Florida / CFU) February 14, 2007 The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards a three-year collaborative project titled “Towards Life-like Computer Interfaces that… Read more |