August 2016 - Infovis

Re: [Infovis] National Academies Final Report on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure
by Borner, Katy 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Relevant for computational network science, computational SciSIP, computational social science, and many other computational X. k From: NSF/CISE Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) Announcements [mailto:ACI-ANNOUNCE@LISTSERV.NSF.GOV] On Behalf Of Kurose, James Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 10:05 AM To: ACI-ANNOUNCE(a)LISTSERV.NSF.GOV Subject: National Academies Final Report on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure Dear Computing and Information Science and Engineering Community, It is our great pleasure to inform you that the final report from the National Academies on Future Directions for NSF Advanced Computing Infrastructure to Support U.S. Science and Engineering in 2017-2020 is now available for download at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/21886. This study was commissioned by CISE’s Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) in 2013 to examine priorities and trade-offs for advanced computing in support of NSF-supported science and engineering research. An interim report was published in Fall 2014 identifying key issues and catalyzing input from the community. The final report, which was issued in late April, considered contributions from multiple stakeholders, including more than 60 submitted comments from individuals, research groups, and organizations. The recommendations within the report aim to: (1) position the United States for continued leadership in science and engineering; (2) ensure that computing resources meet community needs; (3) aid the scientific community in keeping up with the revolution in computing, and (4) sustain the infrastructure for advanced computing. We are enthusiastic about the study’s helpful observations and recommendations. The timing of the report is excellent, syncing with planning for NSF’s future research cyberinfrastructure (CI) investments. It also nicely complements the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI)<https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/29/executive-order-crea…> that was announced last summer and some of our internal planning with respect to data infrastructure as the NSF-wide Cyberinfrastructure for 21st-Century Science, Engineering, and Education (CIF21) effort transitions. Please join us in thanking the study committee for all their work, especially the study co-chairs, Bill Gropp and Robert Harrison. We also want to thank the community for thoughtful input and review. We invite you to a webcast<https://nsfevents.webex.com/mw0401lsp13/mywebex/default.do?nomenu=true&site…> on this new report with Bill and Robert during the next meeting of the Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI)<https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=138596&org=null> on Monday, May 23rd at 10:45 AM ET. Sincerely, Irene and Jim Irene Qualters, Division Director, Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Jim Kurose, Assistant Director of NSF for CISE ########################################################################

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Deadline Extension - IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest
by Wong, Pak C 30 Aug '16

30 Aug '16

Call for Participation (CFP) The IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016 http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/viscontest/2016/ Contest Theme: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics Collaborator and Support: ACT, Inc. Extended DEADLINE: Tuesday, September 20, 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear colleagues, Location ambiguity within the contest data was reported on Friday, Aug 27 and remedies proposed by the data owner have been posted online http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/viscontest/2016/ on Monday, Aug 30. In light of the data integrity issue, VPG has decided to push back the submission deadline to Tuesday, Sep 20. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is sponsoring its third International Data Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2016 contest theme is "Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics." The contest will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and in collaboration with ACT, Inc. (ACT is a non-profit organization in the education readiness assessment sector.) The awards will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2016 conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2016 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. Contest Challenge: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics ACT operates nearly 9,000 testing centers annually to deliver The ACT Assessment to over two million high school students on six different Saturdays each year as part of its open, "National" program. Use of the test data by schools and government agencies has grown significantly in recent years. This growth is increasing the demands on the ACT network and test seat availability. Thus, ACT seeks to use data to carefully mange its system and its operating costs. The 2016 challenge is to develop a visual representation of how changes in availability of an ACT product (i.e., an assessment test) in a geographic area or as part of a distribution network can affect nearby or adjacent distribution sites by moving students or assessments, changing dates, or some other strategy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * How does the introduction of a new delivery location affect existing delivery? * How does the addition or subtraction of a distribution site affect demand in neighboring sites? * How do proximity and availability affect participation in the assessment by geographic region? * What is the optimal Test Center Network for each season by geographic region? * What geographic areas are at risk of under or over utilization? * How can derived measures like Market Saturation, Percent Utilization, and Cost per Unit be aggregated and visualized at local, regional and national levels? Eligibility All visualization and visual analytics designers, developers, researchers, and practitioners from business, academia, and government sectors around the world are eligible to participate. Submissions cannot promote a commercial product. Submission Limitation Contestants may be lead author on no more than three submissions to the 2016 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Contest packets must be received by 5 p.m. PDT on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 to qualify for the 2016 contest. Selection Procedure Five distinguished IEEE VPG members chosen jointly by the VGTC and VPC chairs will review the contest submissions thoroughly and assess the top contest winners. The chair of the selection committee will submit the committee's recommendation to the IEEE VGTC chair by Friday, Oct 14, 2016. Contest Award IEEE VGTC will award a certificate to the best submission in each of the following five categories: 1. Overall Excellence 2. Originality 3. Appropriateness 4. Understandability 5. Communication Impact Submissions will be considered in all categories and may win more than one award. Winners in all categories may have a chance to see their visualization work: 1. Being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts 2. Appear on a cover of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) in 2017. IEEE CG&A will make the final determination about publishing. Submission Details The 2016 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. Contest participants should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:ieeevpg@googlegroups.com>. The package must include: 1. A pdf file that contains: a. Title of the data-visualization contest submission b. Name, affiliation, email address, and postal address of the participant c. A maximum of 300 word description of the visualization written in English 2. A static visualization figure in jpg or png format. The size of the total submission package must be less than 10MB. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>.

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IEEE VIS 2016 - Bike Ride and Cycling Jerseys
by Dykes, Jason 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

This year's VIS BIKE RIDE is an 85km route from Central Baltimore through rolling hills north of the City. We head out at 9am on Saturday 29th October for a day in the saddle. Details on the route, bike rental and the Velo Club de VIS are here: http://www.gicentre.net/velo-club-de-vis You don't need to cycle the route to get a VIS cycling jersey - and you don't need a jersey to participate in the ride. But if you'd like a jersey you MUST ORDER VERY SOON! Sign up for the ride and / or VIS cycling apparel here : http://j.mp/veloClubDeVIS_signUp16 Clothing orders (with sizing) must be made by MON 29th AUGUST to meet the VIS delivery date. All are welcome to join the ride and / or wear club colours. Just sign up! Jason Velo Club de VIS -- jason dykes, giCentre, city university london http://gicentre.net/jsndyks/

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IEEE VIS 2016 registration, BioVis posters, MeetUps, and VISKids child care grants
by Jian Chen 25 Aug '16

25 Aug '16

=================== IEEE VIS 2016 http://ieeevis.org/ October 23 - 28, 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ieeevis Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieeevis LinkedIn: https://goo.gl/5qABWF There are four items in this message: 1. Early bird registration (Deadline: September 9, 2016) 2. IEEE BioVis posters (Deadline: August 26, 2016) 3. IEEE VIS MeetUps (Deadline: September 4, 2016) 4. VISKids child care grants (Deadline: September 7, 2016) ============ 1. Early bird registration ============ http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/registration/conference-registration IEEE Vis includes programs for students, academics, artists, industry and commercial practitioners, government researchers, and anyone with interests in visualization and data analytics. The conference draws about 1,000 participants from dozens of countries to a week of research presentations, tutorials, workshops, panels, demonstrations, posters, and exhibitions. Join us and bring your imagination, your data, your problems, your solutions, your research, insights, experience, and enthusiasm. Please find the VIS program at a glance: http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/overview-amp-topics/week-glance. Important Date: Early bird registration deadline: September 9, 2016 ============ 2. BioVis posters ============ http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ The BioVis 2016 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss new research in biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a short (250-word) abstract with a supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during a dedicated poster session. The BioVis workshop as a whole aims to promote interaction between the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, and the BioVis poster session offers an interactive forum that encourages graphical presentation, demonstration, and active engagement with BioVis participants as well as all attendees of IEEE VIS. Important Dates: Submission: August 26, 2016 Notification: September 9, 2016 ============ 3. IEEE VIS meetUps ============ http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/call-participation/meetups Do you want to meet people who share the same interest with you or just discuss a topic that you care about or that brings the visualization community forward? If yes, organize a meetup! Meetups (previously known as BOFs) are an excellent forum to discuss a wide range of topics related to visualization. For example, if you are an experienced researcher, consider submitting a proposal to share your knowledge in an informal setting with conference participants. Proposals devoted to a particular discipline’s methods and cross disciplinary proposals are both welcome. For example, some recent meetups have included opportunities to discuss topics related to blogging about visualization, the connection between art and science, even organizing a joint bike trip (Velo Club de VIS). MeetUps are public and open to all attendees. Important Dates: Early Submission: September 4, 2016 Notification: September 9, 2016 Submissions after the deadline will be considered subject to room availability. Later submissions will be processed and notified within a couple of days. We also encourage impromptu meetups to be organized during the conference itself. Please contact the chairs by email or in person during the conference in order to secure a conference room and time slot. ============ 4. VISKids child care grants ============ http://ieeevis.org/year/2016/info/committees/viskids-child-care-grants The VIS conference is excited to support our VISKids and young families! Grants of up to $500 per family are available for VIS attendees who are bringing small children to the conference or who incur extra expenses in leaving their children at home. If requests exceed available funding, or if additional funding becomes available, preference will be given to students and early career attendees who are presenting at the conference. Important Dates: Submission: September 7, 2016 Notification: September 9, 2016 Best regards, — Jian (on behalf of IEEE VIS publicity) ------------------------------------------------------------- Jian Chen, PhD, Asst. Prof. UMBC Innovation Fellow Computer Science and Electrical Engineering University of Maryland, Baltimore County http://www.csee.umbc.edu/~jichen

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HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP FOR JEFFREY SHAW
by Image Science 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

<== HONORARY PROFESSORSHIP FOR JEFFREY SHAW: CEREMONY SEPTEMBER 8th, DANUBE UNIVERSITY ==> Danube University awards Prof. Jeffrey Shaw a honorary professorship on the merit of his long-time achievements in the fields of artistic and technological development, and for the scientific dissemination of media art. Through his work as an artist, researcher, curator and instructor at highly regarded universities, Shaw has contributed significantly to the development and research of immersive visualization environments, innovative user interfaces and interactive narration systems, and imparting of knowledge in media art. With his special artistic and technical competences, Shaw is a pioneer in the investigation and enhancement of creative and interactive possibilities with new technologies. Already in the 1960s Jeffrey Shaw co-founded artist groups that realized progressive participatory projects. Later, Shaw expanded his architectural and dynamic models using computer technology. JEFFREY SHAW's benchmarking and pioneering oeuvre is documented on ADA with over 140 media art works from his earliest 'happenings' like "Corpocinema" (1967) to his most recent site-specific immersions like "Look Up Bombay" (2015). An extensive quantity of images from concept drawings to exhibition photographs record his artistic process from inception to installation. In addition to these still images, and the art history of the digital age to which they are witness, an extended documentation enables ADA community members to more deeply explore SHAW'S body of work. Digital videos document his interactive and multi-media works. And textual material that includes artists statements, press releases, scholarly articles, and technical schematics, offer qualitative information on the multifarious iterations of SHAW'S artworks, exhibitions around the world, and collaborations with specialists such as those in the computer sciences. Further, a transhistorical keyword index, the Media Art Research Thesaurus, interconnects these contemporary media artworks by SHAW with their art historical predecessors on other digital databases, so that users of ADA are able to comparatively investigate his works through the very terms central to his practice–'acoustic,' 'expanded cinema,' 'panorama,' 'virtual,' and beyond! Jeffrey Shaw's work on ADA: https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/shaw.html Comparative analysis on „Panorama“: http://mediaartresearch.org/search/key-liste.html?tx_vaindex_pi1%5Bkeywordu… Shaw worked as the founding director at the Institute for Image Media at ZKM in Karlsruhe from 1991 to 2003. Among other major exhibitions, he curated with Peter Weibel “Future Cinema” in 2002/2003. Shaw led his self-founded iCinema Centre for Interactive Cinema Research at the University of New South Wales in Sydney from 2003 to 2009. And since 2009, he is chair professor for Media Art and dean of the School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong. A decisive factor for distinguishing Shaw with this award in addition to his artistic and scientific achievements, is his long relation and contribution to the Department of Image Science at Danube University. He teaches in courses that include the MediaArtHistories master’s program. And, as (former) dean and professor of the School of Creative Media at City University Hong Kong, Shaw functions as an important partner in the new Erasmus+ program Media Arts Cultures, developed by a consortium of Danube University, Aalborg University, Univerisity of Łódz, and City University Hong Kong, and led by Professor Grau, Chair of the Department of Image Science at Danube University. The solemn ceremony will take place on Thursday, September 8th 2016, 6 p.m. at Danube University. Department for Image Science DANUBE UNIVERSITY AUSTRIA www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw

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GD2016: Call for Participation /Early Registration
by Yifan Hu 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

=========================================================================== Call for Participation GD 2016 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization Early registration deadline: August 30 September 19-21, 2016 – Athens, Greece http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/ =========================================================================== Graph Drawing is concerned with the geometric representation of graphs and constitutes the algorithmic core of Network Visualization. Graph Drawing and Network Visualization are motivated by applications where it is crucial to visually analyze and interact with relational datasets. Examples of such application areas include data science, social sciences, Web computing, information systems, biology, geography, business intelligence, information security and software engineering. GD has been the main annual event in this area for more than 20 years. Its focus is on combinatorial and algorithmic aspects of graph drawing as well as the design of network visualization systems and interfaces. GD 2016 will be hosted by the Institute of Communications and Computer Systems, an affiliate of the National Technical University of Athens from September 19 to 21, 2016 in Athens, Greece. Researchers and practitioners working on any aspect of graph drawing and network visualization are invited to participate in the symposium. INVITED SPEAKERS ------------------------------------------------ Daniel Keim, University of Konstanz, Germany Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, Switzerland http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=invited-speakers ACCEPTED PAPERS ------------------------------------------------ The list of accepted papers is available at: http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=accepted-papers REGISTRATION ------------------------------------------------ Registration for GD 2016 is open. Early registration **until August 30, 2016** (regular 270 EUR, student 180 EUR), late registration **after August 30, 2016** (regular 310 EUR, student 220 EUR). Registration can be done at: http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=registration VENUE AND ACCOMMODATION ------------------------------------------------ The 24th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2016) will take place at the Ionic Centre in Athens. Further information about the venue and getting there can be found at: http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=locations Suggestions for accommodations can be found at: http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=accommodation GD CONTEST ------------------------------------------------ The 23rd Graph Drawing Contest will be held in conjunction with GD 2016. Submission deadline for contributions to the Creative Topics Category is September 11, 2016. The Live Challenge will take place during the conference. Further information about the GD Contest can be found at: http://graphdrawing.de/contest2016/contest.html PHD SCHOOL ------------------------------------------------ Immediately after the conference, the “PhD School on Visualization Software” with speakers from yWorks and Tom Sawyer Software will be held on September 22-23 2016 in Athens. The same early registration deadline of August 30, 2016 applies. Early registration fee **until August 30, 2016**: 30 EUR, late registration fee **after August 30, 2016**: 100 EUR. Further information about the PhD School can be found at: http://algo.math.ntua.gr/~gd2016/index.php?id=phd-school IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------ * Early registration deadline (conference and PhD school): August 30, 2016 * GD Contest submission deadline: September 11, 2016 * Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization: September 19-21, 2016 * PhD School on Visualization Software: September 22-23, 2016

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Job Posting: Lecturer in Information Visualisation @ Aston University
by Lumsden, Joanna (Jo) 23 Aug '16

23 Aug '16

[Apologies for cross posting.] The Department of Computer Science at Aston University, UK is advertising the following lectureship and seeking applications from motivated, enthusiastic candidates in the field of Information Visualisation who approach their domain from a human-computer interaction perspective. Lecturer in Computer Science Engineering & Applied Science Salary: £31,656 to £46,414 per annum Grade: Grade 08 Basis: Full Time Closing Date: Friday 16 September 2016 Interview Date: Monday 10 October 2016 Reference: R160314 Aston University School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) is consistently ranked as one of the top Universities in the UK for engineering-related disciplines. Our research strengths are concentrated in selected areas, are often multidisciplinary in nature and are designed to develop solutions to practical problems. This appointment will strengthen the expanding research and teaching activities of the Computer Science Subject Group at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. We intend to appoint a Lecturer to develop further the research in the System Analysis Research Institute (SARI -http://www.aston.ac.uk/eas/research/groups/institute-of-systems-analytics/), particularly in the field of Information Visualisation. We are seeking a dynamic lecturer who approaches information visualisation research from a human-computer interaction (HCI) perspective and who is, therefore, capable of contributing equally to the HCI research group (based on practical familiarity with HCI methodologies and philosophies) and to SARI. Ideally, you will have experience of multidisciplinary research in which information visualisation and HCI approaches have been applied to real world, practical problems. You will have a relevant PhD and be capable of making significant contributions to our research activities, including the attraction of external research funding. All our Computer Science staff are fully integrated in delivering our mainstream computing programmes at undergraduate and graduate levels and you will be expected to deliver excellence in your teaching as well as developing your research profile. You will also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects and engage with external individuals and groups, such as contributing to summer schools and other outreach activities. We would particularly like to encourage applications from women seeking to progress their academic careers. Aston University is committed to the principles of the Athena SWAN Charter http://www.ecu.ac.uk/equality-charter-marks/athena-swan/<https://mail.aston.ac.uk/owa/redir.aspx?SURL=tP1UuJh0Tg5XOMunru39xk_lkHKZ-l…>, recognised recently by a prestigious Silver Award to EAS, and we pride ourselves on our vibrant, friendly and supportive working environment and collaborative atmosphere. The proposed starting date is in January 2017, but there is scope for flexibility. For further information, please contact the Director of the Aston Interactive Media (AIM) Lab, Dr. Joanna Lumsden on +44 (0)121 204 3470 or j.lumsden(a)aston.ac.uk<mailto:j.lumsden@aston.ac.uk>. Please visit our website http://www.aston.ac.uk/jobs for further information and to apply online.

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Invitation to Visualisation Survey
by Sara Johansson Fernstad 22 Aug '16

22 Aug '16

Dear Colleague, The visualization and analysis of incomplete data is an area that has not received much attention from the research community, although it is a challenge experienced in many areas of data analysis. You are invited to participate in a survey that aims to evaluate the performance of three visualization methods from the R-package VIM (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/VIM/VIM.pdf) in the context of displaying incomplete data. From your responses we will be able to evaluate what type of visualization may be best for solving particular tasks, and through this provide guidance for future research. The study is completely anonymous and is part of a project at University of Northumbria at Newcastle, UK. It starts with an instructive video, followed by a set of tasks that will take around 15 minutes to complete. If you have any questions or comments regarding the study, please contact sara.fernstad(a)northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@northumbria.ac.uk>. To the study: https://northumbria.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/survey-visualization-of-missing-data Your participation is important and very much appreciated! Kind regards, Sara ________________________________________________________________ Dr Sara J Fernstad Senior Lecturer Department of Computer and Information Sciences Northumbria University Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE United Kingdom E-mail: sara.fernstad(a)northumbria.ac.uk<mailto:sara.fernstad@northumbria.ac.uk> Phone: +44 (0)191 243 7384 Office: Pandon 243 http://fee.northumbria.ac.uk/staff/jlhv8 http://fee.northumbria.ac.uk/staff/jlhv8/nova/

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IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016
by Wong, Pak C 17 Aug '16

17 Aug '16

Call for Participation (CFP) The IEEE VGTC VPG International Data-Visualization Contest 2016 http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/viscontest/2016/ Contest Theme: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics Collaborator and Support: ACT, Inc. DEADLINE: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 The IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) is sponsoring its third International Data Visualization Contest to recognize outstanding design in visualization and visual analytics from around the world. The 2016 contest theme is "Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics." The contest will be administered by the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) under the auspices of IEEE VGTC and in collaboration with ACT, Inc. (ACT is a non-profit organization in the education readiness assessment sector.) The awards will be announced at the IEEE VPG Reception to be held at the IEEE VIS 2016 conference. You are not required to attend either the VIS 2016 conference or the VPG reception to participate in the contest. Contest Challenge: Spatio-temporal Visual Analytics ACT operates nearly 9,000 testing centers annually to deliver The ACT Assessment to over two million high school students on six different Saturdays each year as part of its open, "National" program. Use of the test data by schools and government agencies has grown significantly in recent years. This growth is increasing the demands on the ACT network and test seat availability. Thus, ACT seeks to use data to carefully mange its system and its operating costs. The 2016 challenge is to develop a visual representation of how changes in availability of an ACT product (i.e., an assessment test) in a geographic area or as part of a distribution network can affect nearby or adjacent distribution sites by moving students or assessments, changing dates, or some other strategy. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * How does the introduction of a new delivery location affect existing delivery? * How does the addition or subtraction of a distribution site affect demand in neighboring sites? * How do proximity and availability affect participation in the assessment by geographic region? * What is the optimal Test Center Network for each season by geographic region? * What geographic areas are at risk of under or over utilization? * How can derived measures like Market Saturation, Percent Utilization, and Cost per Unit be aggregated and visualized at local, regional and national levels? Eligibility All visualization and visual analytics designers, developers, researchers, and practitioners from business, academia, and government sectors around the world are eligible to participate. Submissions cannot promote a commercial product. Submission Limitation Contestants may be lead author on no more than three submissions to the 2016 contest. They may be a co-author of any number of submissions. Submission Deadline Contest packets must be received by 5 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, August 31, 2016 to qualify for the 2016 contest. Selection Procedure Five distinguished IEEE VPG members chosen jointly by the VGTC and VPC chairs will review the contest submissions thoroughly and assess the top contest winners. The chair of the selection committee will submit the committee's recommendation to the IEEE VGTC chair by Friday, Oct 14, 2016. Contest Award IEEE VGTC will award a certificate to the best submission in each of the following five categories: 1. Overall Excellence 2. Originality 3. Appropriateness 4. Understandability 5. Communication Impact Submissions will be considered in all categories and may win more than one award. Winners in all categories may have a chance to see their visualization work: 1. Being applied to ACT's data analysis, product development, and/or marketing/promotional efforts 2. Appear on a cover of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications (CG&A) in 2017. IEEE CG&A will make the final determination about publishing. Submission Details The 2016 contest accepts only static visualizations in the form of an image. Contest participants should email the submission package to ieeevpg(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:ieeevpg@googlegroups.com>. The package must include: 1. A pdf file that contains: a. Title of the data-visualization contest submission b. Name, affiliation, email address, and postal address of the participant c. A maximum of 300 word description of the visualization written in English 2. A static visualization figure in jpg or png format. The size of the total submission package must be less than 10MB. For questions, contact vpg_awards(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg_awards@vgtc.org>.

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IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group Annual Reception at IEEE VIS 2016
by Wong, Pak C 09 Aug '16

09 Aug '16

IEEE VGTC Visualization Pioneers Group (VPG) http://vacommunity.org/ieeevpg/reception/ IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee (VGTC) established the IEEE Visualization Pioneers Group<http://www.vgtc.org/content/ieee-vgtc-visualization-pioneers-group> (VPG) in 2013. VPG will host its fourth member exclusive reception on Monday, October 24 co-located with the IEEE VIS 2016 conference in Baltimore, MD. To become a member of the VPG, one simply needs to have at least 20 years of contributions to some aspect of visualization and visual analytics. The membership fee is $US 50.00 per year. Members are highly encouraged to pay their membership dues online at https://www.payit2.com/collect-page/77297. If you plan to attend the 2016 VPG reception, we encourage you to join VPG as soon as possible so that we can have a more accurate head count for the reception. We look forward to seeing you in Baltimore. For your calendar: Time: 6 p.m. Date: Monday, 24 October, 2016 Location: Pratt Street Ale House<http://www.prattstreetalehouse.com/about/> Address: 206 W Pratt St, Baltimore, MD 21201 (0.2 miles or 4 minutes of walking from the conference hotel) If you have questions, please contact vpg(a)vgtc.org<mailto:vpg@vgtc.org>.

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