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

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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!