February 9 2015, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Peter Nugent from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory described the efforts in incorporating big data techniques to detecting and observing super nova phenomena. The two major conflicting problems are in observing the whole sky for changes and the need for higher power telescopes, which have smaller field of view,…
February 3, 2014, Electronic Imaging Conference, San Francisco—Pak Chung Wong from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory talked about the need for new visualization tools for cyber security work. These tools differ from other visualization tools due to the requirements for rapid response and minimization of false positives and negatives. To identify a requirements for cyber…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—David Kasik and Christopher J Senesac from Boeing described the changing nature of computer graphics at their company. Boeing has had substantial influence on the fields of computer graphics, interactive techniques, and computational geometry since 1960. Boeing is involved in a wide range of technologies from basic…
March 19, 2013, GPU Technology Conference, San Jose, CA—Mathew Gueller from Harley-Davidson described the changes in their workflows and the resulting improvements in turn around time for new motorcycles. The new modeling and visualization tools enable better designs. Harley started making motorcycles 110 years ago and had a design flow that started with drawings, progressed…
February 4, 2013, Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Wes Bethel from Lawrence Berkeley Lab explained why high performance visual data analytics is both relevant and difficult. The onset of big data and the advances in computers make some areas easier, but the big problems still need a lot of technology to find solutions. Visualization has always…
January 24, 2011, SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference, Burlingame, CA—Georges Grinstein from the University of Massachusetts Lowell talked about visualization techniques and their challenges. Some visualization techniques have built-in analysis and some are integrated with user interaction. When data is projected on a standard 2-D or 3-D display, the visualization techniques try to provide a sense…