Event
Campus Visualization Partnership Lecture: Introduction to the CVP
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
12:00 p.m.
2121 J M Patterson
Ben Shneiderman
ben@cs.umd.edu
http://viz.umd.edu
Fran LoPresti, Deputy CIO, Division of Information Technology
Amitabh Varshney, Professor, Dept of Computer Science, Director UMIACS
Ben Shneiderman, Distinguished University Professor, Dept of Computer Science
This Introduction to the CVP Lecture Series describes how UMCP is expanding on its leadership in the rapidly growing fields of scientific, information, medical, and other visualizations.
Fran LoPresti will describe the campus efforts at providing Information Technology abundance, with initiatives on Visualization, High Performance Computing, etc.. She will describe the Campus Visualization Partnership Seed Grant Program to support broader use of visualization across the disciplines. Amitabh Varshney will cover scientific visualization projects on campus, UMIACS‘ efforts, and show work from his own Graphics & Visual Informatics Lab. Ben Shneiderman will cover information visualization projects on campus and demonstrate Human-Computer Interaction Lab efforts, especially in medical informatics.