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Dr William Ribarsky. Angela McCarthy BU4061 Study Period 1 2010. Background - History. Obtained Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cincinnati in 1974 Founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Dr William RibarskyAngela McCarthy
BU4061Study Period 1
2010
Obtained Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cincinnati in 1974
Founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center
Dr. Ribarsky is former Chair and current Director of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee
Member of the Steering Committees for the IEEE Visualization Conference and the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference
Background - History
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Currently an Editorial Board member for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications
Co-founded the Eurographics/IEEE visualization conference series (now called EG/IEEE EuroVis) ◦ Helped to establish the current Virtual Reality Conference series
In 2007, general co-chair of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium
Was Principal Research Scientist in the College of Computing
Associate Director for External Relations of the GVU Center
Background - History
Dr. Ribarsky is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte
Director of Charlotte Visualization Center Research Areas (Current):
◦ Bioinformatics◦ Data Warehousing◦ Multimedia Analysis, Retrieval and Security◦ Scientific and Information Visualization◦ Virtual Reality (specialises in)◦ Visual Analytics◦ Visualization
Background - Current
Georgia Institute of Technology Georgia Tech Research Institute Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers (IEEE) University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Professional Associations
Database Applications◦ Spatial Databases And Gis
Multimedia Information Systems◦ Artificial, Augmented, And Virtual
Realities User Interfaces
◦ Evaluation/Methodology◦ Graphical User Interfaces (Gui)◦ User-Centered Design
Vision And Scene Understanding◦ 3d/Stereo Scene Analysis◦ Perceptual Reasoning
Distributed Artificial Intelligence◦ Intelligent Agents
Learning◦ Concept Learning
Picture/Image Generation Graphics Utilities
◦ Virtual Device Interfaces
Computational Geometry And Object Modeling◦ Geometric Algorithms, Languages, And
Systems Methodology And Techniques
◦ Interaction Techniques Three-Dimensional Graphics And
Realism◦ Animation◦ Virtual Reality
Types Of Simulation◦ Visual
Physical Sciences And Engineering◦ Earth And Atmospheric Sciences
Arts And Humanities◦ Architecture
Electronic Commerce◦ Security
Subject Areas (Published)
Publication years: 1992 – 2009◦ Recent work for 2010
"An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge Management," Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky, and Shen-en Chen. To be published, Eurographics/IEEE EuroVis 2010.
Dr. Ribarsky has published over 130 scholarly papers, proceedings, book chapters, and books
63 publications of which are under ACM literature◦ Only three published solo
Publications
◦ Varied in style◦ Some very ambiguous
“Instant architecture”◦ Others rather concise
“Integrating multi-modal content analysis and hyperbolic visualization for large-scale news video retrieval and exploration”
◦ Titles all very professional
Publications - Titles
Publications by Year (ACM)
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ACM ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Canadian Information Processing Society Elsevier Science Inc. Eurographics Association Georgia Institute of Technology IEEE Computer Society IEEE Computer Society Press IEEE Educational Activities Department Kluwer Academic Publishers McGraw-Hill, Inc. Palgrave Macmillan Pergamon Press, Inc. Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.
Publishers
Majority of publications based around visualisation techniques◦ Expands into applications, human interaction,
analytics, general interaction Work constantly being retouched and
further developed, providing foundations for future work◦ E.g. Virtual GIS [1995] – looked at possibility of
using GIS for emergency situations and in army research, developing from 2D to 3D in interactive worlds
Content
Citations vary in amounts◦ Some cases of 6 citations, other cases of 33
citations Majority of citations scholarly publications
◦ Minimal website references Not uncommon in IT fields to see web references
Keeps current with latest work and advancements in technology◦ Citations generally within a year or two, or further
building on an older idea
Citations
Fred Alyea Eric L Baker Stephen A Benton Jay David Bolter Bob Brown Steve T Bryson Grigore C Burdea Thomas Butkiewicz Remco Chang Remco Chang Min Si Chen Alireza Darvish Douglass Davis Wenwen Dou David Scott Ebert John Cronan Eble Greg Stephen Eisenhauer Marcus Ewert Jianping Fan Jianping Fan Nickolas Faust Richard Feldmann Brian D Fisher Yuli i Gao Mohammad Ghoniem Milton William Green Tera Marie Green Tera Marie Green Weizhen Gu
Hans Hagen Reid Harmon Sean Ho Larry Franklin Hodges Aubrey Holland Daniel Hubball C E Hubbard Justin Jang Yves Darly Jean Dong Hyun Jeong Frank Jiang T Y Jiang Jing Yang Eunjung Kang Jochen Katz Daniel F Keefe Daniel Kern Thomas Kindler David R Koller Robert Kosara David Michael Krum Robert S Laramee Alvin Lee Seok Won Won Lee Bastian Leibe Ming C Lin Peter Lindstrom Heather Richter Lipford Dingxiang Liu
Dongning Luo Hangzai Luo Kwan Liu Liu Ma Rob Melby Sougata Mukherjea Terry Myerson Kayvan Najarian Olugbenga Omoteso Augusto Op den Bosch Walter Patterson Randy F Pausch D A Philbin Nancy S Pollard Anita Raja Elke A Rundensteiner Shin Ichi Ichi Satoh Eric Sauda Gerik Scheuermann Karsten S Schwan A Fleming Seay Christopher David Shaw Francois X Sillion Deborah E Silver Bradley A Singletary Stuart Smith Victoria Spaulding Thad Eugene Starner Felesia Stukes Agus Sudjianto
Evan A Suma Lloyd A Treinish Greg A Turner Neff Walker Xiaoyu Wang Xiaoyu Wang Matthew Oliver Ward Zachary Justin Wartell Tony Wasilewski Benjamin Allen Watson Justin Weeks Ginette Wessel Michael Wimmer Peter Wonka Peter Woytiuk Jing Yang Jing Yang Jing Yang Yang Chen Jia Yue Caroline Ziemkiewicz Robert van Liere Ron van Teylingen Charles A P G van der Mast
Collaborative Colleagues
Urban Requires ready access to equipment and research
◦ Charlotte Visualization Center Majority of research completed with colleagues
◦ Same subject areas, research may be repeated with same colleagues Larry Hodges – 13 publications (Virtual Reality/3D 1993-2003) Remco Chang – 13 publications (Visual Analytics 2009-2006) Nickolas Faust – 9 publications (Virtual Reality/3D 1995-2003)
Work done in United States
Rural-Urban
Applied Minimal theory work
◦ Rather than talking about ‘concept’, actually talks about ‘implementation’
Various applications are created then tested◦ Virtual Reality◦ Immersive Environments◦ Visual Analysis◦ 3D Geographical Information Systems
Applied-Theoretical
Positivist Epistemology-representational
◦ Taking reality and representing it in symbolic form Visualisation systems 3D immersive environments Virtual Reality
Paradigm
Papers made available online and published in journals◦ Online papers, of 63 on ACM, only 20 available for
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◦ All IEEE papers on www.ieee.org required membership privileges
Delivers multiple seminars a year
Communication
Working on further publications◦ "An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge
Management," Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky, and Shen-en Chen. To be published, Eurographics/IEEE EuroVis 2010
Recently gave presentation at The Fourth Annual DHS University Network Summit◦ 10-12th March, 2010
Dr. Ribarsky is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte (refer back to Background)
Current Activity
Conclusion
General views…
Questions?
Thanks for listening!