Keynote Speaker: Jim Thomas
Director, National Visualization and Analytics Center
Fellow of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Bio
Jim Thomas is a PNNL Lab Fellow and Chief Scientist for
Information Technologies at Battelle Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory with over 30 years of experience. He now is Director
of the Department of Homeland Security founded National
Visual Analytics Center. His responsibilities at Battelle include
establishing investment directions for Information Technology
(IT), representing IT inside and outside the lab, leading major
technology initiatives, mentoring staff, and being a PI on
several major programs. He specializes in the research, design,
and implementation of innovative information and scientific
visualization, multimedia, and human computer interaction
technology; however, he has a broad working knowledge
of information technology. Some of the recent technologies
developed have set a new stage for the visualization of
masses of multimedia information sources with several publications,
patents, with recent publications being widely referenced
and re-printed. More recently he has led teams in text,
numerical, image and video analysis for massive information
spaces. He has received several international science awards
including Top 100 Scientific Innovators (Science Digest) and
twice the Research and Development's Industrial Research
100 Significant Scientific and Industry Accomplishments Top
100 Innovators in Science and Industry. In addition, twice he
was awarded the Federal Laboratories Consortium Technology
Transfer Award for innovation in transferring research technology
to industry and universities. In addition Thomas served as
2003 and 2004 IEEE Visualization Conference Co-Chair, Chair
ACM SIGGRAPH 1987-1992, 1998-2002 Editor-In-Chief for
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, Founder of ACM
User Interface Science and Technology Conference, and has
over 120 publications and sits on several advisory boards.