Dear InfoVis colleagues, I hope you might be able to join for this and invite you friends/colleagues... thanks... Ben I'm pleased to invite you to the opening reception for the Treemap Art Project at the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in DC on Thursday October 16, 6-8pm, Keck Center, 500 Fifth St., N.W., Room 100: http://www.cpnas.org/events/daser-101614.html These monthly events, DC Art Science Evening Rendezvous (DASER), are a great opportunity for interdisciplinary networking. The panel discussion, led by the NAS Director of Cultural Programs, J. D. Talasek, features Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Jon Froehlich, and Manuel Lima who will discuss the intersection of art and science. I'll do exhibit tours before and after for the 12 treemap art pieces: http://www.cpnas.org/exhibitions/archive/every-algorithm-has-art-in.html I am pleased that this exhibit, which is elegantly framed and installed by the NAS, will remain on view till April 2015. A second copy will go to curators for the collection of MOMA in NYC. The 20-page catalog describes each of the 12 pieces (http://www.cpnas.org/exhibitions/archive/treemaps.pdf). You may want to see the essays by Manuel Lima and JD Talasek. Even if you can't join, I hope you will enjoy the catalog and help spread the word to appropriate colleagues, email lists, blog post & twitter/facebook friends. Here's the Treemap free application www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap> And you can learn about their history at www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap-history> Sincerely... Ben Prof. Ben Shneiderman ben@cs.umd.edu<mailto:ben@cs.umd.edu> Dept of Computer Science 301-405-2680 A.V. Williams Building www.cs.umd.edu/~ben<http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben> University of Maryland www.cs.umd.edu/hcil<http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil> College Park, MD 20742 Twitter: @benbendc Founding Director Human-Computer Interaction Lab Glenn Martin Professor of Engineering Member, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies Member, National Academy of Engineering Fellow AAAS, ACM, IEEE, SIGCHI Academy