Special Guest Lecture & CS Colloquium
CSCI-4965: Three-Dimensional Computer Graphics
Fall 2000

Research Directions In Scientific Visualization

Dr. William J. Schroeder
President and co-founder
Kitware, Inc.
Clifton Park, NY
&
Senior Research Associate, Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Visualization is an important tool for understanding, communicating, and analyzing information. This is especially true as computers generate and measure ever-increasing amounts of data, and as 3D computer graphics becomes pervasive across high- and low-end computer systems. In this talk, we will describe recent developments in visualization, and look to the future with research directions. Topics covered includes information visualization, visualizing large data sets, multi-variate and other representation schemes, multi-resolution, and feature extraction. We will also discuss developments in visualization software systems, focusing on the open source Visualization Toolkit (VTK) system, including the role of the open source approach to software development.

Tuesday, November 7, 2000
4:00pm (Refreshments at 3:30pm)
Amos Eaton 214

Biography

Dr. William J. Schroeder is a Senior Research Associate at the Scientific Computation Research Center (SCOREC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and President and co-founder of Kitware, Inc. a start-up company offering visualization technology solutions. Dr. Schroeder has been a contributor to the visualization and graphics field for more than twelve years, authoring such seminal works as polygons decimation, stream polygons. and swept surfaces and path planning for maintenance and assembly applications. Will has published in the Siggraph proceedings and IEEE Visualization, and regularly teaches courses at these conferences.

Dr. Schroeder is first author of the Visualization Toolkit text, and primary developer of the associated open source VTK software system. VTK is used throughout the world in commercial, academic, and research applications, including use at Los Alamos, Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley, Argonne, and Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Stanford, Cornell, Princeton, UNC, RPI, MIT; and in commercial products such as Mitsubishi's VolumePro volume rendering hardware and Kitware's VolView application.

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