From stefano.foresti at utah.edu Mon Feb 23 00:22:18 2004 From: stefano.foresti at utah.edu (stefano foresti) Date: Fri Oct 14 10:02:21 2005 Subject: [InfoVis:] One-day course Message-ID: <009a01c3f9dd$c589b1d0$6401a8c0@chpc.utah.edu> [InfoVis List: subscription info at the end of the message] A One-day course: 13 July 2003 Information Visualization: Research Frontiers and Business Opportunities Ben Shneiderman Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA OBJECTIVES Enable attendees to: recognize the seven types of information visualizations and which combination is best for a given problem domain. distinguish between scientific and information visualization learn guidelines for successful designs see demos of novel visualizations understand opportunities for successful visualizations DESCRIPTION Information visualization has rapidly emerged as a potent technology to support human decision making. The latest generation of visual data mining tools and animated GUIs take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce striking results. This tutorial will show examples of successful uses of information visualization technology, plus recent research breakthroughs and hints of what's to come. Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive important patterns in large data sets, identify areas that need further scrutiny, and make sophisticated decisions. But looking at information is only a start. Users also need to manipulate and explore the data, using real-time tools to zoom, filter, and relate the information - and undo if they make a mistake. Information visualization tools can aid in any situation that's characterized by large amounts of multi-dimensional or rapidly changing data, e.g. financial data analysis, manufacturing production control, healthcare, pharmaceutical drug discovery, gene expression from microarray studies, oil/gas discovery, and more. The lectures are enhanced by a large number of live demonstrations, and with time for question asking and discussion. AGENDA Session 1: . The case for Information Visualization . Seven types by information visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-,multi-dimensional, temporal, tree, and network data) . Seven user tasks in processing complex data (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history, and extract) . Direct manipulation (visual representation of the objects and actions of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations) . Dynamic queries, Spotfire & Dynamaps (Dynamic queries are user controlled query widgets, such as sliders and buttons, that update the result set within 100msec) . Visual Information Seeking mantra: Overview first, Zoom and filter, then Details on demand . Universal Usability Break Session 2: . Structured data . Multidimensional and multivariate data . Temporal data visualization . Hierarchical and tree structured data . Network information visualization . Zooming interfaces . Focus+Context vs Overview+Detail . Coordination of visualizations AUDIENCE Information professionals who must manage, present, interpret, and explore vital databases, Designers of advanced tools for decision support and business intelligence. BEN SHNEIDERMAN is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory ( http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/ ), and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben Shneiderman is the author of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (4th edition, April 2004) http://www.aw.com/DTUI/ . His move into information visualization helped spawn the successful company Spotfire http://www.spotfire.com/ . He was an advisor for www.smartmoney.com where his treemap idea was the basis for the marketmap. He is currently an advisor for ILOG (http://www.ilog.com) and the HiveGroup (http://www.hivegroup.com) . With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies appeared in October 2002, and his new book with B. Bederson, The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections, was published in April 2003. ======================================================================== INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://cromdi.utah.edu/pipermail/infovis/attachments/20040223/33230230/attachment.htm From stefano.foresti at utah.edu Sun Feb 22 10:01:19 2004 From: stefano.foresti at utah.edu (stefano foresti) Date: Fri Oct 14 10:02:21 2005 Subject: [InfoVis:] summary of course resources Message-ID: <000001c3f965$7e642010$6401a8c0@chpc.utah.edu> [InfoVis List: subscription info at the end of the message] Summary of responses re: course resources, Stefano **************************************************************************** ******* Just a few days ago I was sent a job ad from Texas A&M University looking for more faculty in Visualization, which includes some information about their current MS visualization degree and plans for a PhD visualization degree. I'm including the posting in its entirety below, not only to answer your question but also for those list members who might be interested in the jobs themselves. --- Tamara Munzner, Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept, Univ of British Columbia tmm@cs.ubc.ca, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ You may have noticed our recent advertisement in the Communications of the ACM, announcing our search for faculty in VISUALIZATION & COMPUTER GRAPHICS at Texas A&M University. We want to provide you more information about these positions. We also want to encourage you to nominate qualified people. Feel free to forward this email to any computer graphics researcher who might be considering relocation. Our current Visualization program is a unique and cross-disciplinary graduate (Master of Science) program that successfully integrates science and art with technology in both education and research. The program is supported by the Visualization Laboratory, one of the largest visualization facilities in the nation. Former students from the visualization program constitute one of the largest group from any academic program in the computer animation and special effects industry. The current MS program is under the Department of Architecture but closely associated with the Department of Computer Science. Primary faculty of the MS program, in addition to four artists, includes three computer scientists, Fred Parke, Donald House and Ergun Akleman. Eight courses are crosslisted with the Department of Computer Science and many computer science faculty work closely with our faculty in the visualization program. What will make these new faculty positions especially exciting is that we are currently planning a new Department of Visualization. In addition to offering the existing MS degree, we plan to develop and offer unique interdisciplinary PhD and MFA degrees as well as BS and BA degrees in visualization and computer graphics. A group of architects and artists who work closely with the current visualization faculty will also eventually be part of new department. At Texas A&M there is no separate fine/visual art department, and all visual art courses are taught in the College of Architecture. Associated faculty artists include painters, illustrators, sculptors, photographers, and designers. These new positions will provide a unique opportunity for computer graphics researchers who want to work in a truly interdisciplinary environment that will provide non-traditional research problems and cross-disciplinary research opportunities. Moreover, the establishment of a new department with its PhD and undergraduate programs will provide a unique type of workforce for such interdisciplinary research. Moreover, the new faculty will have the opportunity to assume leadership roles in developing a new department. For more information, please contact either one of us: Fred Parke, email: parke@viz.tamu.edu, phone: (979) 845 3465 Donald House, email: house@viz.tamu.edu, phone: (979) 845 6719 Ergun Akleman, email: ergun@viz.tamu.edu, phone: (979) 845 6599 ___________________________________________________________________ MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSITIONS The new faculty positions are part of an aggressive plan by Texas A&M University to attain top ten status among public universities in the United States by the year 2020. The university will fill over 400 new faculty positions in the next four years. Texas A&M University is a comprehensive teaching and research university with an enrollment of approximately 44,000 students, including over 8,000 graduate and professional students. Located in College Station, the university is 90 miles northwest of Houston and has easy access to Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. For families, College Station is one the the least expensive and easy to live places in US. Texas A&M University College of Architecture has 14 newly-acquired full-time tenure-track (and tenured) faculty positions to be filled during the next four years to enhance its signature programs in VISUALIZATION, DESIGN FOR HEALTH, and SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTS. This is an ongoing process, in addition to the five positions to be filled in 2004, seven faculty will be appointed in 2005-2006 and two each in the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 academic years. Determined by their experiences and interests, the new faculty members will be able to choose one of the three existing (Architecture, Construction and Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, or one planned (VISUALIZATION) departments of the College. The College of Architecture is the largest of its kind in the United States. Over 100 faculty in three departments serve over 1800 students in 12 degree programs that span the entire planning, design, construction and operation life-span of the built environment. The college is renowned for its accredited programs in architecture, landscape architecture, construction science, and urban planning, its extensive Ph.D. programs in architecture and urban and regional science, and its graduate program in visualization science. For people who are reluctant to apply to positions outside of engineering and science departments, we want to point out that architecture is one of the closest disciplines to computer graphics and visualization. Similar to computer graphics, science and aesthetics must be properly balanced in architecture. Moreover, Computer graphics topics such as lighting and 3D modeling are also important topics in architecture. We also want to point out that the current visualization program covers traditionally non-architectural topics such as animation. For instance, as you may have already known, Fred Parke is a pioneer in facial modeling and Donald House is one of the leading experts in cloth modeling and animation. In other words, even if you think that your research area does not seem to be closely related to architecture, it can still be related to areas we are interested in in the visualization program. In our official advertisement visualization is defined as broadly as possible. The advertisement includes almost any related area by stating that Visualization candidates should have expertise in one or more of the areas of computer graphics, simulation, time-based media, architectural visualization, construction visualization, geographic information systems, urban visualization, scientific visualization, visual art, graphic communication, history and theory of visualization, or other areas of relevance. In terms of visualization candidates, preference will be given to candidates with evidence of a distinguished record of accomplishment or who exhibit potential for peer-reviewed scholarship or creative work. Applicants should have received the Ph.D. or the terminal degree in their field that includes but not limited to computer science, architecture, engineering and visual Art. If you are considering to apply, please send a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, non-returnable samples of work or portfolio, and names and addresses of three references. Additional materials may be requested. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled, but please provide materials as soon as possible. Please send official application to: David G. Woodcock, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Architecture College of Architecture, TAMU 3137 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 77843-3137 (979) 845-1221 FOR MORE INFORMATION about faculty positions, PLEASE SEE: faculty_search@archone.tamu.edu FOR MORE INFORMATION about Visualization laboratory and program, PLEASE SEE: http://www-viz.tamu.edu * * * * * * * * * * * * Margaret Lomas Visualization Laboratory Texas A&M University A216 Langford Center 3137 TAMU College Station, TX 77843-3137 (979)845-3465 (979)845-4491 FAX http://www-viz.tamu.edu **************************************************************************** ******* Here's another tenure-track faculty visualization job posting, this one is at SFU. An infovis candidate would be particularly attractive to complement their existing strength in scientific visualization. --- Tamara Munzner, Assistant Professor Computer Science Dept, Univ of British Columbia tmm@cs.ubc.ca, http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~tmm See also: http://www.cs.sfu.ca/JobOpp/Assistant_Professor_Nov_2003.html The School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University in Greater Vancouver invites applications for several tenure-track positions at the Assistant Professor level. Outstanding candidates at more senior levels will be considered as well. A Ph.D. in Computing Science or equivalent is required, with a strong commitment to excellence in research and teaching. Candidates at the more senior levels should have a strong record of publication, research funding, and student supervision and instruction. Preference will be given to candidates in systems and applications oriented areas, and interdisciplinary areas such as bioinformatics. However, the overall innovation and promise of the candidate's work will be considered as important as any specific area. Simon Fraser University is consistently one of the top-ranked, publicly-funded universities in Canada. The School of Computing Science currently has over 170 Ph.D. and M.Sc. students, 700 undergraduate majors, and 46 faculty members. The School is at the outset of a phase of strong growth. As part of the "Doubling the Opportunities" program of the government, both the number of faculty and students shall be significantly increased within the next three years. The School of Computing Science highly encourages interdisciplinary research building upon the strengths of Simon Fraser University. Simon Fraser University is situated on Burnaby Mountain in Greater Vancouver. Vancouver thrives as a scenic waterfront city located just minutes away from the mountains and a wide range of outdoor activities. It has the mildest climate in Canada. Vancouver's cultural and intellectual pursuits, leisure opportunities, favorable climate, and clean and safe environment are consistently cited as quality of life factors that make it one of the most desirable places in the world to live and work. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Simon Fraser University is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from all qualified women and men, including visible minorities, aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. All positions are subject to budgetary approval. For additional information see www.cs.sfu.ca To apply, send a curriculum vitae, evidence of research productivity, and the names, addresses and phone numbers of three referees to: Faculty Search School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6 email: faculty-search@cs.sfu.ca **************************************************************************** ******* I asked a colleague of mine at Sandia National Laboratories and he = replied with the following. =20 The three that come to mind are 1) Maryland - Ben Schneiderman's lab 2) Indiana - with Katy Borner at SLIS 3) Arizona - Hsinchun Chen's lab I don't know how close they are in focus, but they are a starting point =20 Phil Chamberlin Strategic Technologies Inc. (505)271-0131 =20 . ======================================================================== INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF). The Database of Virtual Art is both an evolving research instrument and a work in progress, changing according to the ongoing development of the field. Its documentation system will also serve as a predesessor for the systematic preservation of this art. Due to the fact that virtual art is totally dependent upon storage media, it is no exaggeration to say that an entire decade of art threatens to be lost for all time. The Database: http://virtualart.hu-berlin.de/ (best under mozilla) Considering the fundamental differences of virtual art, the documentation system reaches beyond traditional data by especially focusing on information about technical requirements, installation settings, blueprints, software-hardware configurations, interface and displays. Video documentation has strategically been given a core role, due to its ability to show the processual nature of these works ? with more than 100 videos created by the artists. Institutions displaying media art and media theory researchers also hold a prominent place in the database. For further information on the concept of database: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/grau/ click on ?datenbank/database? The web interface allows the artists, researchers and institutions to post the information themselves, so that gradually an elaborate information network and communication platform grows. Since the database is in the first phase of being available to the public, you are encouraged to check the site frequently over the coming months and watch the growth of this new web-based research instrument. Database of Virtual Art DIRECTION, SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT AND ARTISTS NETWORK Dr. Oliver Grau TECHNICAL CONCEPT AND DATABASE Christian Berndt, M.A. VIDEO DOCUMENTATION, PRODUCTION AND EDITING Robert L??l EDITING AND ARTISTS NETWORK COMMUNICATION Anne Peterok, M.A. COORDINATION WITH MUSEUMS AND PUBLIC RELATIONS Wendy Jo Coones, M.Ed. FOUNDING ARTIST MEMBERS u.a.: Christa Sommerer/Laurent Mignonneau, Paul Sermon, Charlotte Davies, Ken Goldberg, Daniela Alina Plewe, Agnes Heged?s. Maurice Benayoun, Suzanne Anker, Zoe Beloff, Eduardo Kac, Michael Naimark, George Legrady, Jeffrey Shaw, Jill Scott, Bernd Lintermann, Monika Fleischmann/Wolfgang Strauss, Reiner Strasser, Lev Manovich, Jaron Lanier, Seiko Mikami, Louis Bec, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Knowbotic Research, Myron Krueger, Luc Courchesne, Thomas Ray, Nell Tenhaaf, Karl Sims, Joel Slayton, Bill Seaman, Margaret Dolinsky, Jack Ox, Jane Prophet, Ulrike Gabriel, Lynn Hershman, Jean Michel Bruyer, Chris Hales, Roy Ascott, Seiko Mikami, Jean Baptist Barriere, Dan Sandin, Kaeko Murata, Marikki Hakola, Simon Penny, Fabricators, Yanis Melanitis, Toni Dove, Jon McCormack, Steven Schkolne, Victoria Vesna, Paul Yuxweluptun, Pam Skelton, Kenneth Rinaldo, Matt Mullican, Rebecca Allen, Simon Biggs, Andrea Zapp . . . ======================================================================== INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://cromdi.utah.edu/pipermail/infovis/attachments/20040211/b22ea5e9/attachment.htm From stefano.foresti at utah.edu Wed Feb 11 14:40:30 2004 From: stefano.foresti at utah.edu (stefano foresti) Date: Fri Oct 14 10:02:21 2005 Subject: [InfoVis:] JPSM Short Courses Message-ID: <000a01c3f0e7$adb90000$2010659b@chpc.utah.edu> [InfoVis List: subscription info at the end of the message] JPSM SHORT COURSE OPEN FOR REGISTRATION: Please forward ------------------------------------------------------- REGISTRATION DEADLINE: March 30, 2004 COURSE INFORMATION: http://projects.isr.umich.edu/jpsm/materials/2004-0414.html CLASS LISTS, INFORMATION, REGISTRATION, PAYMENT AND CANCELLATION: http://projects.isr.umich.edu/jpsm JPSM HOME PAGE: http://www.jpsm.org/ Click on "JPSM Short Courses" INQUIRIES: Phone: (800) 937-9320, Email: jpsmshort@isr.umich.edu . ------------------------------------------------------- A one-day short course sponsored by the Joint Program in Survey Methodology. APRIL 14, 2004 Presented at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda, Maryland INFORMATION VISUALIZATION FOR DIGITAL GOVERNMENT: ENVISIONING STATISTICAL KNOWLEDGE NETWORKS Registrants will be provided with a copy of "The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections", and a course pack containing detailed course notes. BEN SHNEIDERMAN & CATHERINE PLAISANT {ben, plaisant}@cs.umd.edu mailto:plaisant}@cs.umd.edu Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 USA OBJECTIVES Enable attendees to: Recognize the seven types of information visualizations and which combination is best for a given problem domain. Distinguish between scientific and information visualization Learn guidelines for successful designs See demos of novel visualization Understand opportunities for successful visualizations CONTENT AND BENEFITS Information visualization has rapidly emerged as a potent technology to support human decision making. The latest generation of visual data mining tools and animated GUIs take advantage of human perceptual skills to produce striking results. This tutorial will show examples of successful uses of information visualization technology, plus recent research breakthroughs and hints of what's to come. Our emphasis will be on examples of government statistical data sets and we will highlight the challenges of providing universally usable interface designs. Information visualization techniques empower users to perceive important patterns in large data sets, identify areas that need further scrutiny, and make sophisticated decisions. But looking at information is only a start. Users also need to manipulate and explore the data, using real-time tools to zoom, filter, and relate the information - and undo if they make a mistake. Information visualization tools can aid in any situation that's characterized by large amounts of multi-dimensional or rapidly changing data, e.g. demographic trends, economic data analysis, health statistics, homeland security. The lectures are enhanced by a large number of live demonstrations, and with time for question asking and discussion. TARGET AUDIENCE Information professionals who must manage, present, interpret, and explore vital databases. Designers of advanced tools for decision support and business intelligence. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES BEN SHNEIDERMAN is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science Founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/), and Member of the Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies & for Systems Research, all at the University of Maryland at College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. Ben Shneiderman is the author of Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction (3rd ed. 1998) http://www.awl.com/DTUI/ . His move into information visualization helped spawn the successful company Spotfire http://www.spotfire.com/. He was an advisor for www.smartmoney.com http://www.smartmoney.com where his treemap idea was the basis for the marketmap. He is currently an advisor for ILOG, Clockwise3D, and the HiveGroup. With S. Card and J. Mackinlay, he co-authored Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think (1999). Leonardo's Laptop: Human Needs and the New Computing Technologies appeared in October 2002, and his new book with B. Bederson, The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections, was published in April 2003. CATHERINE PLAISANT is Associate Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory of the University of Maryland. She earned a Doctorat d'Ingenieur degree in France in 1982 and has 15 years of experience in developing and evaluating user interfaces. In 1988 she joined the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. Since then she has been leading projects on public access information systems, digital government, home technologies, telemedicine and information visualization and exploration. Catherine Plaisant has been an Associate Member of the University of Maryland Graduate Faculty since 1991. She supervises computer science graduate and undergraduate students and occasionally library school and psychology students. Dr. Plaisant has published more than 80 papers, mainly in computer science and human-computer interaction journals or proceedings. She is a Member of the Computer Science Special Editorial Board of Interacting with Computers, Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd, Oxford (1992- ), Information Visualization Journal, and the editor of the HCIL video series (1991-..). She has been principal investigator of contracts and grants with: National Science Foundation, National Center for Health Statistics, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, NASA, Census, World Bank, Hughes Network Management, General Electric, IBM, and the Maryland Dept. of Juvenile Justice. AGENDA: INFORMATION VISUALIZATION SESSION 1) THE CASE FOR INFORMATION VISUALIZATION -Seven types by information visualizations (1-, 2-, 3-, multi-dimensional, temporal, tree and network data) -Seven user tasks in processing complex data (overview, zoom, filter, details-on-demand, relate, history and extract) -Direct manipulation (visual representation of the objects and actions of interest and rapid, incremental, and reversible operations) -Dynamic queries, Spotfire & Dynamaps (Dynamic queries are user controlled query widgets, such as sliders and buttons, that update the result set within 100msec). -Visual Information Seeking mantra: Overview first, Zoom and filter, then Details on demand -Universal Usability SESSION 2) STRUCTURED DATA -Multidimensional and multivariate data -Temporal data visualization -Hierarchical and tree structured data -Network information visualization -Zooming interfaces -Focus+Context vs Overview+Detail -Coordination of visualizations SCHEDULE 8:00-9:00 Check-In 9:00-10:30 Class 10:30-10:45 Morning Break 10:45-12:15 Class 12:15-1:30 Lunch 1:30-3:00 Class 3:00-3:15 Afternoon Break 3:15-4:45 Class BOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY Bederson, B. and Shneiderman, B., The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings an Reflections, Morgan Kaufmann Publ. San Francisco, CA (2003). http://www.mkp.com/craft Card, S., Mackinlay, J., and Shneiderman, B., Readings in Information Visualization: Using Vision to Think, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (1999). Chen, Chaomei, Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments, Springer Verlag, Berlin (1999). Chen, Chaomei, Mapping Scientific Frontiers: The Quest for Knowledge Visualisation, Springer Verlag (2003). Fayyad, Usama, Grinstein, Georges and Wierse, Andreas, Information Visualization in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (2001). Spence, Robert, Information Visualisation, Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA (2001). Tufte, Edward, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1983). Tufte, Edward, Envisioning Information, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1990). Tufte, Edward, Visual Explanations, Graphics Press, Cheshire, CT (1997). Wainer, Howard, Visual Revelations, Copernicus-Springer Verlag, New York (1997). Ware, Colin, Information Visualization: Perception for Design, Morgan Kaufmann Publ., San Francisco, CA (1999). Wilkinson, Leland, The Grammar of Graphics (Statistics and Computing), Springer Verlag (August, 1999). WEBSITES InfoVis Listserv http://www.infovis.org Online Library of Information Visualization Environments http://otal.umd.edu/Olive Univ of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Lab http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil Information Visualization Resources http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~ngg/InfoViz/ LOCATION The course will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda, One Bethesda Metro Center, at Wisconsin Avenue and Old Georgetown Road in Maryland. The hotel is in the heart of Maryland's high-tech corridor, just 6 miles from downtown Washington, D.C., with convenient access to the Capital Beltway and Metro Subway. The Hyatt is accessible via the Metro Red Line at the Bethesda Metro stop. For overnight room reservations, call the Hyatt Regency Bethesda at 301-657-1234. There is a parking garage located directly underneath the Hotel which offers both valet and self-parking. The garage is not owned or operated by the Hyatt Regency. COURSE MATERIALS Registrants will be provided with a copy of "The Craft of Information Visualization: Readings and Reflections", and a course pack containing detailed course notes. LUNCH AND REFRESHMENTS JPSM group lunches and refreshments are included in the course fee. FEES The registration fee for staff at sponsoring agencies and affiliates is $400, $400 for full-time university students, and $535 for other participants. Payment by credit card is required. Post registration payment may be done online using the student's confirmation number. Payment is required by March 30, 2004. JPSM Sponsor Affiliate List: http://projects.isr.umich.edu/jpsm/sponsorlist.cfm . REGISTRATION Online registration is required. Confirmation of registration and instructions will be sent after the registration form has been processed. Registration is not firm until you receive a confirmation letter. Payment by credit card is required. Post registration payment should be done online using the student's confirmation number. Please note confirmation number. The registration deadline is March 30, 2004. JPSM COURSE LISTS, INFORMATION AND ONLINE REGISTRATION: http://projects.isr.umich.edu/jpsm/ JPSM HOME PAGE: http://www.jpsm.org/ Click on "JPSM Short Courses" CANCELLATION Please notify JPSM as soon as possible if you need to cancel your registration. Cancellation requests should be done online. You will be fully reimbursed if you cancel by March 30, 2004. Cancellation March 31-April 6, 2004 will require a $100 administrative fee, the remainder will be reimbursed. Cancellation on or after April 7, 2004 is subject to the full fee amount. MINORITY FELLOWSHIPS The Joint Program in Survey Methodology strives to increase the number of survey professionals from groups traditionally under-represented in the field. As part of the effort, a limited number of competitive minority fellowships are available for African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native American Indians for the short course, Applicants should complete: 1. A 500-word essay describing their reasons for wanting to attend this short course, how their participation will enhance their chosen career path. Indicate ethnic background, 2. A recommendation written by a person knowledgeable about their aptitude and interest in survey methodology, 3. The online course registration form. Registrations, essays, and recommendations are due by March 17, 2004. JPSM will evaluate the applications and inform the successful applicants by March 24, 2004. The fellowship covers the registration fee for the course including the cost of materials to be distributed during the course and lunch. Essays and recommendations may be either faxed to (734) 764-8263 or mailed to JPSM Short Course, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Room 4050, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248. JPSM CITATION PROGRAM The citation program is built around the JPSM two-day short courses. The program is designed to provide the working professional, or student, with state of the art knowledge, current principles and practices of complex surveys and provide practical skills of day-to-day utility. Completion of the citation involves taking a semester length JPSM credit-bearing course "Fundamentals in Survey Methodology" and eight JPSM short courses, of which four must be from the core courses. For information and application materials visit the home website or call 301-314-7911. INQUIRIES Questions for this course should be directed to the JPSM Short Course, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, 426 Thompson Street, Room 4050, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, Phone: (800) 937-9320, Fax: (734) 764-8263, Email: jpsmshort@isr.umich.edu . 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(703) 326-1057 ======================================================================== INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Best regards, Pak Chung Wong http://www.pnl.gov/wong =======================================================================INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://cromdi.utah.edu/pipermail/infovis/attachments/20040211/e8125075/attachment.htm From stefano.foresti at utah.edu Thu Feb 5 14:46:19 2004 From: stefano.foresti at utah.edu (stefano foresti) Date: Fri Oct 14 10:02:21 2005 Subject: [InfoVis:] PhD Program Message-ID: <004c01c3ec31$7fc16800$f1231f43@chpc.utah.edu> [InfoVis List: subscription info at the end of the message] The Department of Computer and Information Science at Konstanz University, Germany is please to announce its new PhD Graduate Program. The program is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and offers various scholarships for graduate students and one postdoc. The topics will mainly focus around the theme of the graduate school: "Explorative Analysis and Visualization of Large Information Spaces" Please advise all interested students in your department of this great opportunity. The first deadline for applications is March 15, 2004. Detailed information about the program can be found at: http://www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/gk -- Michael R. Berthold, Professor phone: +49 (07531) 88-2202 ALTANA-Chair for Applied Computer Science fax: +49 (07531) 88-5132 (Bioinformatics and Information Mining) berthold@inf.uni-konstanz.de University of Konstanz, Germany www.inf.uni-konstanz.de/~berthold ======================================================================== INFOVIS DIGEST INFORMATION moderator: Stefano Foresti - stefano.foresti@utah.edu supporting web site: http://www.infovis.org posting address: infovis-digest@infovis.org To SUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): subscribe infovis-digest To UNSUBSCRIBE: 1- email to majordomo@infovis.org (do NOT reply to this email) 2- write the following line in the message (NOT subject): unsubscribe infovis-digest Information accepted for inclusion in the digest will include: - Research and development projects across academia and industry - Conference notices, book announcements & reviews, lectures - Interesting papers, web sites, videos - Requests for help on specific research problems - Employment and student opportunities - Commercial product announcements and descriptions Questions/problems about infovis digest to stefano.foresti@utah.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Johnson Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA VizSEC/DMSEC Workshop Website: http://www.cs.fit.edu/~pkc/vizdmsec04/ ACM CCS Conference Website: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigsac/ccs/CCS2004/ Important Dates: Paper Submissions: June 18, 2004 Notifications to the authors: August 6, 2004 Camera-ready papers: September 3, 2004 VizSEC/DMSEC Workshop: October 29, 2004 Information about security on large and complex computer networks is high volume, heterogeneous, distributed, and dynamic over time. Of interest to this workshop are two complementary methods to process high-dimensional data into knowledge: visualization and data mining. Visualization represents high-dimension security data in 2D/3D graphics and animations intended to facilitate quick inferences for situational awareness and focusing of attention on potential security events. Data mining focuses on algorithms to accurately detect patterns in high-dimension security data representing unauthorized system access or computer network attacks. Papers with demonstrated results will be given priority. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: - visualizing vulnerabilities - visualizing IDS alarms (NIDS/HIDS) - visualizing worm/virus propagation - visualizing routing anamolies - visualizing large volume computer network logs - visual correlations of security events - visualizing network traffic for security - visualizing attacks in near-real-time - security visualization at line speeds - dynamic attack tree creation (graphic) - forensic visualization - feature selection - feature construction - incremental/online learning - noise in the data - skewed data distribution - distributed mining - correlating multiple models - efficient processing of large amounts of data - correlating alerts - signature detection - anomaly detection - forensic analysis Submission Instructions: Formatting guidelines: * first page includes title, authors, contact info, abstract * at most 15 pages, * at least 11-point font, * 1-inch margins, * PS or PDF formats. 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