An Update from VisWeek 2009
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V isWeek is one of the best places to see leading visualization and data analysis work and interact with “vis people.” In 2009, VisWeek was held in October in Atlantic City and attracted over 800 people to its three main conferences: IEEE Visualization (VIS), IEEE Information Visualization (InfoVIS), and Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST). VisWeek 2009 also included workshops, tutorials, panels, and a doctoral colloquium. It was truly an exciting week that highlighted some of the leading visualization research. VisWeek has its roots in the IEEE Visualization Conference that started in 1990 (Arie Kaufman edited the first proceedings). One of the impetuses for creating the conference was the influential 1987 US National Science Foundation report on scientific visualization, which defined the field to focus on “data understanding by visual representation or other visual means.” Obviously, visualization itself is hundreds of years old. What separates the old from the new is the availability of advanced computing capabilities— including modern computer graphics techniques—which form the backbone of modern visualization research. Interest in information visualization was also quite obvious from the beginning, and this area grew so fast that it quickly evolved into its own conference. VAST is a more recent addition, but it has gained substantial support from academia, government, and industry. To give readers a sense of what transpired at VisWeek 2009, Joel Tohline and I (Claudio Silva), asked three leading scholars to write a “blog style” report here about the three main conferences. In the following, David Ebert, a professor at Purdue University, covers VAST; Hanspeter Pfister, a professor at Harvard University, writes about VIS 2009; and Sheelagh Carpendale, a professor at University of Calgary, reports on InfoVIS 2009. But first, my own view of the overall VisWeek experience.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Computing in Science and Engineering
دوره 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010