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Pragmatic Partnerships: Collaborations in Cyberspace
ADVANCED VISUALIZATION: A BOOM WITH A VIEW
Tuesday, November 4
1:30 - 2:45 pm
Part of the Digital Futures Initiative, the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) and SHARCNET will explore the impact of advanced visualization technologies in science and design. Advanced visualization is transforming the approach, implementation and outcomes of collaboration and research in such diverse fields as bioinformatics, human-computer interaction, geography, language visualization, environmental sciences, physics, as well as collaborative, interactive teaching and learning.
For a more in-depth look at leading work in visualization, and to take part in an informal discussion with industry experts, visit OCAD November 5 for their free VizDay: Case Studies in Visualization, co-hosted by SHARCNET.
Session Chair: Sara Diamond, President, Ontario College of Art & Design
President of OCAD (Ontario College of Art & Design), Canada's largest and most diverse undergraduate and graduate Art and Design University. Diamond is building OCAD's capacities in undergraduate learning, research and graduate studies, as well as creating links with medical and scientific research. Diamond serves on the advisory committee for the Ontario Ministry of Culture. She is on the editorial board of Convergence Magazine and was the editor-in-chief of Horizonzero.ca, a unique new media gallery and critical publication. Before moving to OCAD in 2005, she was the award-winning Director of Research at The Banff Centre and Artistic Director of Media and Visual Arts for fourteen years. She founded the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) in 1995 and built the BNMI into a globally recognized content incubator, workshop and think tank. Diamond's network reaches from Asia to Eastern Europe, to the UK, USA, Brazil, and the Arctic; to research labs to Silicon Valley, to television to software development companies around the world. She was co-principle investigator on the Mobile Digital Commons Network and Am-I-Able Networks. She chairs the Mobile Experience Innovation Centre, a consortium of business and academia for mobile research and development. Her research and publications explore data visualization and the history of media art.
Panelists:
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Pierre Boulanger, Professor, Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta
Dr. Boulanger graduated from Laval University in Engineering Physics. He also received his Masters in Physics from the same university and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Montreal. He worked for 18 years at the National Research Council of Canada as a senior research officer where his primary research interests were 3D computer vision, rapid product development, and virtualized reality systems. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta doing research and teaching on virtualized reality systems. He is also an adjunct scientist and principal investigator for new media at TRLabs and at the Banff Centre. In 2004, Dr. Boulanger was awarded an iCORE industrial chair in Collaborative Virtual Environment. He is also the Director of the Advanced Man-Machine Interface Laboratory. On the commercial side, Dr Boulanger is the president of PROTEUS Consulting Inc., an Alberta-based consulting firm specializing in Virtual Reality Applications.
- Chaomei Chen,Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Information Visualization, Associate Professor, College of Information Science and Technology, Drexel University
Dr. Chaomei Chen is associate professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar at Dalian University of Technology, China and has been a visiting professor at Brunel University in the United Kingdom (2002-2008). He received his bachelor degree in mathematics from Nankai University, China, his master's degree in computation from the University of Oxford and his doctorate in computer science from the University of Liverpool. His research interests include information visualization, visual analytics, knowledge domain visualization, mapping scientific frontiers, and analysis and modeling of discovery and innovation in science and technology. Dr. Chen is the author of Information Visualization: Beyond the Horizon (Springer 2004) and Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualization (Springer 2003). He is the founder and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Information Visualization (Palgrave-Macmilan). He received the 2002 ASIST/ISI Citation Research Award. He is a member of the Thomson Scientific Strategic Advisory Board and the principal investigator of research grants from NSF and other sponsors. Dr. Chen created the widely used software CiteSpace for visualizing and analyzing emerging trends in scientific literature.
- Tom Erickson, Interaction Designer and Researcher, Social Computing Group, IBMs Watson Labs
Tom is an interaction designer and researcher in the Social Computing Group at IBM's Watson Labs in New York to which he telecommutes from his home in Minneapolis. He has been at IBM since June '97; before that he spent nine years at Apple, and five years in a now-defunct start-up. His research focuses on designing systems that enable groups of people to interact coherently and productively over networks. More generally, he is interested in topics such as genre theory, pattern languages, urban design, real and virtual communities, and the sociology of human-human interaction, all of which inform his approach to systems design.
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