Archive News ShapeWorks 6.3 Now Available June 13, 2022 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.3! To download… Read More Bei Wang Wins NSF Career Award June 13, 2022 Congratulations to Bei Wang on her NSF career award. A Measure Theoretic Framework for Topology-Based… Read More Brian Zenger receives Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2021 April 14, 2022 Congratulations to Brian Zenger for receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award for 2021 from the College… Read More Anna Busatto and Lindsay Rupp Accepted to Simula Summer School in Computational Physiology March 10, 2022 Anna Busatto and Lindsay Rupp, PhD students in the Biomedical Engineering Department and the SCI… Read More SCI alum Juliana Freire honored as an AAAS lifetime fellow February 3, 2022 Congratulations to SCI alum Juliana Freire who has been honored as an AAAS lifetime fellow…. Read More U of U Health Professor and SCI Collaborator Receives Pew Charitable Trust Innovation Award January 20, 2022 Gabrielle Kardon, Ph.D., a professor of Human Genetics at University of Utah Health, is a… Read More ShapeWorks 6.2 Now Available November 18, 2021 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.2! To download… Read More Bringing Fairness in AI to the Forefront of Education November 8, 2021 Bei Wang Phillips, a Faculty at the SCI Institute and an Assistant Professor at the… Read More LDAV 2021 Best Paper Honorable Mention November 2, 2021 Congratulations to Duong Hoang, Harsh Bhatia, Peter Lindstrom, and Valerio Pascucci on receiving best paper… Read More Chuck Hansen Elected to IEEE Board of Governors October 1, 2021 Congratulations to Chuck Hansen on being elected to the IEEE Board of Governors for 2022…. Read More Valerio Pascucci Wins a NASA Earth Exchange Award October 1, 2021 Valerio Pascucci won a NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) award entitled “A Flexible Encoding Framework and… Read More WIFIRE Commons and BurnPro3D October 1, 2021 Valerio Pascucci funded among WIFIRE Commons and BurnPro3D Team from the NSF. A century of… Read More Manish Parashar Named ACM Fellow September 13, 2021 Congratulations to School of Computing professor and Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute director, Manish… Read More SCALE MoDL: Advancing Theoretical Minimax Deep Learning: Optimization, Resilience, and Interpretability September 1, 2021 Congratulations to Bei Wang on her new NSF Award, SCALE MoDL: Advancing Theoretical Minimax Deep… Read More FluoRender Funded for Another Three Years August 16, 2021 FluoRender: Rapid Quantitative Analysis and Adaptive Workflows for Fluorescence Microscopy Data in Fundamental Biomedical Research… Read More Conversion of Utah Coal into High-value Carbon Products Sustaining Rural Economies August 2, 2021 The University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute and Department of Chemical Engineering… Read More ShapeWorks 6.1 Now Available June 29, 2021 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.1! To download… Read More Jeff Weiss Receives Distinguished Research Award April 9, 2021 Congratulations to Jeff Weiss for receiving the Distinguished Research Award that recognizes outstanding achievement and… Read More ShapeWorks 6.0 Released April 2, 2021 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 6.0! To download… Read More OpenSpace Project Renewed for 5 More Years March 1, 2021 Congratulations to Chuck Hansen on the 5-year renewal of his grant from NASA titled “OpenSpace… Read More Former U Researcher Wins Academy Award February 8, 2021 If it weren’t for an important computer graphics technique seen in special effects for movies… Read More SCI Institute and Kitware: Putting Software Sustainability into Practice January 25, 2021 Authors: SCI Institute, University of Utah: Jess Tate, Daniel White, Alexandra Warner, Ross Whitaker, Christopher… Read More New Leader Named for SCI Institute October 22, 2020 National Science Foundation and Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) veteran, Professor Manish Parashar, a… Read More ShapeWorks 5.5 Released October 15, 2020 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 5.5! To download… Read More Chris Johnson Receives the Leonardo Award September 21, 2020 We are pleased to announce the recipient of The Leonardo Award 2020 is Chris Johnson… Read More Wilson Good Wins Young Investigator’s Award at Computing in Cardiology September 16, 2020 Congratulations to Wilson Good on winning the Rosanna Degani Young Investigators’ Award competition at the… Read More Tendon Injury and Collagen Mechanics August 31, 2020 Accumulation of collagen molecular unfolding is the mechanism of cyclic fatigue damage and failure in… Read More Bei Wang Receives DOE Award July 29, 2020 University of Utah School of Computing assistant professor Bei Wang was awarded more than $832,000… Read More ShapeWorks 5.4 Released June 22, 2020 We are excited to announce the new release of our software, ShapeWorks 5.4. ShapeWorks is… Read More Genome-wide Pattern Found in Tumors from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy May 15, 2020 Proof of principle study highlights mathematical methods that are uniquely suited for personalized medicine For… Read More SCI Students Bring A-Game to Summer Conferences May 12, 2020 Conferences may be a little different this year, but that hasn’t stopped SCI students from… Read More Brian Zenger Receives University of Utah Graduate Fellowship April 23, 2020 Congratulations to Brian Zenger on receiving a 2020-21 University Graduate Fellowship. The award includes an… Read More SCI Awarded COVID-19 Seed Grant April 23, 2020 Congratulations to Tolga Tasdizen whos Emerging COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2 Research Application has been awarded funding by the… Read More ViSUS Utilized in Understanding COVID-19 April 20, 2020 SCI Institute and CEDMAV alumnus, Brian Summa has been working with colleagues at Tulane University… Read More SCI Students Awarded One NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and One Honorable Mention April 13, 2020 Congratulations to Lindsay Rupp who was awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship.and Jake Bergquist who… Read More SCI mourns the passing of friend and mentor Bill Lorensen December 29, 2019 The SCI Institute faculty, staff, and students were shocked and saddened to learn that our… Read More Chris Johnson and Chuck Hansen Inducted into The IEEE Visualization Academy September 9, 2019 Chris Johnson and Chuck Hansen will be inducted into The IEEE Visualization Academy (or in… Read More Every Breath You Take August 2, 2019 Shortening Treatment for Lung Cancer Patients New research at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute… Read More Announcing Intel Graphics and Visualization Institutes of XeLLENCE May 2, 2019 In order to better ensure advanced graphics and visualization capabilities are broadly available to the… Read More HCI Announces Computational Oncology Research Initiative (CORI) April 29, 2019 It is our distinct pleasure to announce that Howard Colman, MD, PhD, Professor in the… Read More DBS and Traumatic Brain Injury April 17, 2019 Biomedical engineers in the laboratory of Christopher R. Butson, PhD at the Scientific Computing &… Read More Sarang Joshi Elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) March 25, 2019 Congratulations to Sarang Joshi for being elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical… Read More Charles Hansen appointed Distinguished Professor March 14, 2019 School of Computing professor Charles Hansen has been appointed as a Distinguished Professor of Computing… Read More SCI Head Model Now Available February 25, 2019 The SCI Institute is excited to announce the release of the SCI Institute’s female head… Read More New Texas supercomputer to push the frontiers of science November 5, 2018 The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced today that it has awarded $60 million to the… Read More What you can’t see can hurt you October 4, 2018 You can’t see nasty microscopic air pollutants in your home, but what if you could?… Read More SCI Welcomes Two New Faculty September 18, 2018 The SCI Institute is pleased to announce the addition of two new faculty members. Timo… Read More 3D Virtual Simulation Gets to the ‘Heart’ of Irregular Heartbeats September 12, 2018 Researchers have successfully performed 3D personalized virtual simulations of the heart A 3-D virtual heart…. Read More Contributions to Computer Graphics August 31, 2018 By Paul Gabrielsen, science writer, University of Utah Communications On Monday, August 13, the computer… Read More Interim Director Named for SCI Institute August 9, 2018 The University of Utah has announced that Christopher Johnson, Ph.D., will be stepping down from… Read More Wilson Good Wins Best Poster at ISCE April 30, 2018 Congratulations to Wilson Good for winning best poster at ISCE 2018 in Park City, Utah…. Read More Shana Black and Kara Johnson receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships April 3, 2018 Congratulations to Shana Black and Kara Johnson who both received NSF Graduate Research Fellowships. The… Read More Jeff Weiss Elected ASME Fellow April 2, 2018 Congratulations to Jeff Weiss who was elected a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical… Read More At the Hayden Planetarium, a Joyride Across the Cosmos March 15, 2018 By JOHN SCHWARTZ MARCH 9, 2018 Story appears at the New York Times Carter Emmart… Read More Machine learning could improve how doctors diagnose heart attacks March 5, 2018 Wilson Good, Brian Zenger Article originally appears in Venturebeat You’re working in your house, going… Read More Ivan Sutherland Honored February 27, 2018 Ivan Sutherland, a University of Utah computer science luminary who taught the likes of Ed… Read More Alex Lex Receives NSF Career Award February 26, 2018 Congratulations to Alex Lex, who has officially received an NSF CAREER Award. Enabling Reproducibility of… Read More Targeting Tumors More Accurately January 23, 2018 New research being conducted at the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute holds the potential to… Read More ViSUS LLC invited to CES January 10, 2018 ViSUS LLC is one of 16 start-ups selected to exhibit in the NSF SBIR (“America’s… Read More Yiliang Shi receives honorable mention for the CRA’s Outstanding Undergraduate Research Award December 19, 2017 Congratulations to Yiliang Shi, who has been selected for honorable mention for the Computing Research… Read More Qi Wu receives Juror Choice Award in the 2017 Teapot Rendering Competition December 18, 2017 Congratulations to Qi Wu, who received a Juror Choice Award in the 2017 Teapot Rendering… Read More Rob MacLeod elected President of the Board of Directors for the Computing in Cardiology Society December 13, 2017 Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute faculty member Rob MacLeod has been elected as President… Read More Technology from “Harry Potter” Movies Brings Magic of Brain into Focus November 20, 2017 Software lets scientists explore the brain in 3-D and perform “virtual dissections” By Bahar Gholipour,… Read More Air Quality & U, Empowering Citizens through Science November 3, 2017 Miriah Meyer and Kerry Kelly talk with KRCL’s RadioActive, hosted by Billy Palmer and Lara… Read More Valerio and Kree Receive IEEE Visualization 15 Year Test of Time Award October 3, 2017 Congratulations to Valerio Pascucci and Kree Cole-McLaughlin on receiving the IEEE Visualization 15 Year Test… Read More 2017 NERSC Award for Innovative Use of HPC September 26, 2017 Congratulations to Yarden Livnat, who is part of the team who received the 2017 NERSC… Read More Nothing is Certain September 11, 2017 “The only certainty…,” it is said, “is that nothing is certain.” And so it goes… Read More Driving Visualization at the SH/EAHP Workshop 2017 September 5, 2017 ViSOAR is set to drive the visualization for the 2017 Workshop on Molecular Genetics of… Read More Need for Speed August 30, 2017 Whether it’s coming up with the best design for a Formula 1 race car or… Read More SCI Acquires Nvidia DGX-1 August 24, 2017 The SCI Institute, in partner with the School of Computing, is excited to announce the… Read More A Calming Effect August 21, 2017 For many who suffer from debilitating neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s Disease, the constant muscular… Read More Snapshots of Life: Muscling in on Development July 28, 2017 Research with Fluorender highlighted on the NIH Director’s Blog. Posted on July 27, 2017 by… Read More Chuck Hansen Receives the 2017 IEEE Visualization Career Award June 22, 2017 Congratulations to Charles (Chuck) Hansen, who received the 2017 IEEE Visualization Career Award. Dr. Hansen… Read More Research Initiative Seeks to Understand Neural Pathways in Deep Brain Stimulation June 21, 2017 The University of Utah Neuroscience Initiative recently announced Christopher Butson, PhD, Associate Professor in Bioengineering… Read More Miriah Meyer Interviewed at Women in Data Science 2017 May 4, 2017 Miriah Meyer, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of Utah, sits down with host… Read More Gigapixel image analysis on the fly May 2, 2017 Most farmers probably never thought they’d be in the market for a way to process… Read More 2016 Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course April 18, 2017 The Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course was held for the third time in 2016,… Read More Mike Kirby Honored Among Top Researchers at the University of Utah April 4, 2017 Mike Kirby has been chosen as one of two top researchers in the College of… Read More Combating Wear and Tear March 22, 2017 University of Utah bioengineers detect early signs of damage in connective tissues such as ligaments,… Read More Early Science Projects for Aurora Supercomputer Announced January 30, 2017 Congratulations to Martin Berzins and the Carbon-Capture Multidisciplinary Simulation Center on their selection as one… Read More SCI Alum Thiago Ize to Receive Technical Oscar January 5, 2017 Congratulations to SCI Institute Alumnus Thiago Ize for receiving a Technical Achievement Oscar for his… Read More Rob MacLeod Elected as a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) January 3, 2017 Congratulations to Rob MacLeod for being elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical… Read More Laura Lediaev wins the Utah Rendering Competition for the 3rd straight year December 19, 2016 Congratulations to Laura Lediaev, who won the Utah Rendering Competition for the third year in… Read More Miriah Meyer Receives Distinguished Alumni Award November 30, 2016 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer, who receive this year’s University of Utah Distinguished Alumni Award. To… Read More SCIx 2016: November 16th November 9, 2016 SCI Institute Technical Exchange (SCI X) was created to strengthen the interactions between the SCI… Read More Fluorender Features on Cover of Disease Models and Mechanisms November 3, 2016 An image of the ulnar-mammary syndrome, visualized with FluoRender, was chosen for the cover of… Read More Fluorender 2.20 Released October 18, 2016 We are excited to announce the latest release of FluoRender, version 2.20, which incorporates improvements,… Read More Alex Lex, Bei Wang Phillips, and Chris Johnson present at the Future in Review Conference September 29, 2016 Alex Lex, Bei Wang Phillips, and Chris Johnson were chosen to present at the Future in… Read More Visualizing the Universe September 7, 2016 Utah engineers co-developing space simulation software for planetariums and home computers. Sept. 7, 2016 –… Read More Scientific visualizations: A bridge to knowledge August 15, 2016 Chris Johnson speaks with ScienceNode on visualizations as a collaborative process of discovery, and a… Read More Fluorender 2.19.4 Available July 29, 2016 We are excited to announce the latest release of FluoRender, version 2.19.4, which incorporates improvements,… Read More Introduction to Image-Based Modeling July 11, 2016 Sponsored by the R. Harold Burton Foundation Over the course of four weeks, students from… Read More Bei Wang Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science June 2, 2016 Bei Wang has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as… Read More Making Sense of Data Now Available May 31, 2016 Making Sense of Data, by Miriah Meyer and Danyel Fisher now available for pre-order from… Read More NeuroImage Journal Cover Features SCIRun Renderings May 12, 2016 The publication and cover image is the result of a close collaboration between the University… Read More Science-ArtQuiz April 21, 2016 The SCI Institute recently contributed to the Science-ArtQuiz with the Leonardo. Can you distinguish Science… Read More Mike Kirby among coauthors of ISC 2016 award winning paper April 6, 2016 Congratulations to James King, Thomas Gilray, Robert M. Kirby and Matthew Might, whose paper: Dynamic… Read More NSF Graduate Fellowships Awarded to Two SCI Students March 30, 2016 Congratulations to Danielle Pruss and Daria Anderson on receiving NSF Graduate Fellowships. Danielle is a… Read More SCI Research Highlighted in Argonne’s 10 Year Celebration March 15, 2016 Modeling detonations to transport explosives safely Researchers modeled a 2005 explosion that left a 30-by-70-foot… Read More Chris Johnson Re-Elected to CRA Board of Directors March 2, 2016 Congratulations to Chris Johnson on being re-elected for another three years to the Computing Research… Read More Seg3D 2.3.0 Released February 25, 2016 We are pleased to announce Seg3D version 2.3.0. The new binary installers and sources can… Read More Behind Each Breath, an Underappreciated Muscle February 19, 2016 CIBC collaborator Gabrielle Kardon’s research has been showcased by New York Times science writer Carl… Read More Image Analysis Tools for Understanding Connective Tissue Structure January 12, 2016 Sponsored by the Burton Foundation This summer, two Salt Lake area high school students from… Read More Ross Whitaker Elected to AIMBE’s College of Fellows December 16, 2015 Congratulations to Ross Whitaker, who has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and… Read More INCITE Awards 351 Million Core Hours to Martin Berzins and Team November 18, 2015 INCITE Grants Awarded to 56 Computational Research Projects Newswise — OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Nov. 16,… Read More Valerio Pascucci on Cool Science Radio November 9, 2015 Valerio Pascucci, Professor, from the School of Computing and Alessandra Angelucci, Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual… Read More Three Grants, Totaling Over $10 Million Awarded to Prof. Chris Butson and Collaborators October 29, 2015 Over $10 Million in grants from three federal organizations have been awarded to Christopher R…. Read More NCI Grant for Personalized Cancer Diagnostics and Prognostics to Alter and Team October 29, 2015 Orly Alter has been awarded a five-year, three million-dollar National Cancer Institute (NCI) grant for… Read More Speeding up extreme big brain data analysis October 27, 2015 Interactive software tool lets brain researchers explore large-scale, high-res imaging to better understand connections in… Read More 3-D map of the brain: Utah researchers develop software to better understand brain’s network of neurons October 22, 2015 Oct. 22, 2015 The animal brain is so complex, it would take a supercomputer and… Read More Visualizing Hurricanes October 9, 2015 On September 27th, Hurricane Joaquin, a Category 4 storm developed over the Atlantic Ocean pounding… Read More NSF Highlights Chris Butson’s New Grant September 30, 2015 Press Release 15-107 Gigabit application prototypes to help cities and communities serve citizens better NSF… Read More 2015 Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course September 3, 2015 The Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course was held July 13- 23 in Newpark, Park… Read More CIBC Renewed for Another Five Years August 28, 2015 The U’s Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing just landed a $6.1 million grant renewal from… Read More Exploring Large Data for Scientific Discovery August 28, 2015 August 27, 2015 – Scott Gibson, Communications Specialist, University of Tennessee More elegant techniques combined… Read More CIBC launces the new NIH BTRPortal August 25, 2015 The NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) is pleased to release the National Institutes… Read More SCIRun 5.0 Released July 20, 2015 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute is excited to announce the first official alpha release… Read More Seg3D 2.2.0 Now Available July 1, 2015 We are pleased to announce Seg3D version 2.2.0 and Seg3D’s new GitHub repository (https://github.com/SCIInstitute/Seg3D). The… Read More SCI Institute welcomes two new Professors in Computer Science and Mathematics June 25, 2015 Dr. Alexander Lex, School of Computing Dr. Lex received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD degrees… Read More BrainStimulator Released with SCIRun5 alpha June 3, 2015 BrainStimulator is a set of networks that are used in SCIRun to perform simulations of… Read More FluoRender 2.16 Released June 3, 2015 We are excited to announce the 2.16 release of FluoRender. For Microsoft Windows users, FluoRender… Read More Utah team turns to computing to design clean oxy-coal boiler May 14, 2015 Coal produces 39 percent of America’s electricity, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reports. It’s everywhere,… Read More SC15 Video Highlights Cutting-Edge Brain Simulations that help Parkinson’s Patients May 12, 2015 An enlightening video series launched by the SC conference steering committee in 2013 aims to… Read More Miriah Meyer Receives Outstanding Teaching Award May 12, 2015 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who received the School of Computing Outstanding Teaching Award. For more… Read More Data Science: What is it and How to Teach it? May 1, 2015 Recently, the term big data has become ubiquitous. People who can wrangle big data are… Read More New Method Increases Accuracy of Ovarian Cancer Prognosis and Diagnosis April 15, 2015 Mathematical Technique Reveals Predictive DNA Patterns That Other Methods Missed Nearly anyone touched by ovarian… Read More Erin Linebarger Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship April 2, 2015 Congratulations to Erin Linebarger on receiving an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Erin’s current research focus is… Read More Nina McCurdy Receives NSF Graduate Fellowship March 31, 2015 Congratulations to Nina McCurdy on receiving an NSF Graduate Fellowship. Nina’s current research focus is… Read More SIAM CSE15: Record Attendance March 22, 2015 The SIAM CSE15 Co-Chairs: Hans De Sterck (University of Waterloo), Chris Johnson (University of Utah),… Read More FluoRender 2.15.2 Released March 19, 2015 We are pleased to announce the 2.15.2 release of FluoRender. It mainly fixed several issues… Read More Chris Johnson to Co-Chair and Host SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference March 5, 2015 The SIAM Computational Science and Engineering 2015 Conference will be held March 14-18 at the… Read More Both Sides of The Brain February 10, 2015 HOW UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH CARE REMAINS AMONG THE NATION’S BEST IN DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION… Read More Uintah 1.6 Released January 29, 2015 The Uintah software suite is a set of libraries and applications for simulating and analyzing… Read More FluoRender 2.15.1 Released January 27, 2015 We are happy to announce the 2.15.1 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release… Read More NVIDIA Center of Excellence Renewed January 15, 2015 The NVIDIA Corporation, the worldwide leader in visual computing technologies has renewed the University of… Read More U of U team finishes study of massive, mysterious explosion January 15, 2015 From KUTV.com | Wednesday, January 14, 2015 | Chris Miller (KUTV) A team of researchers… Read More Martin Berzins appointed Member of ASCAC January 8, 2015 Martin Berzins has been appointed a member of the Advanced Scientific Computing Advisory Committee (ASCAC)…. Read More Now Available: Spatio-temporal Image Analysis for Longitudinal and Time-Series Image Data January 8, 2015 S. Durrleman, P.T. Fletcher, G. Gerig, M. Niethammer, X. Pennec (Eds.) Third International Workshop, STIA… Read More Simulations Aimed at Safer Transport of Explosives January 7, 2015 Credit: Jim Collins – Argonne Leadership Computing Facility See original article: “Simulations Aimed at Safer… Read More FluoRender 2.15 Released December 29, 2014 We are happy to announce the 2.15 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release… Read More Now Available: Topological and Statistical Methods for Complex Data December 3, 2014 Edited by J. Bennett, F. Vivodtzev, V. Pascucci Latest peer-reviewed results in a growing research… Read More Strong Showing for SCI Alumni at Vis 2014 November 11, 2014 Congratulations to our former SCI Institute and SoC Colleague Claudio Silva, now at New York University… Read More School of Computing Recognized Among 50 Most Innovative CS Departments in the U.S. November 11, 2014 The University of Utah’s School of Computing was recently recognized in Computer Science Degree HUB’s… Read More Treating Tremors October 9, 2014 Dr. Christopher Butson Interviewed for AMS It may not sound like much fun having an… Read More Now Available: Scientific Visualization September 23, 2014 Edited by Hansen, C.D., Chen, M., Johnson, C.R., Kaufman, A.E., Hagen, H. Based on a… Read More UDCC Open House September 17, 2014 Wednesday, September 17th 2014 10 am to 3 pm University of Utah Warnock Engineering Building,… Read More UV-CDAT Receives Outstanding Partnership Award from the FLC August 29, 2014 The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Far-West Region presents Outstanding Partnership award to… Read More 2014 Summer Course on Image-based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) August 20, 2014 The Image-Based Biomedical Modeling (IBBM) summer course was held from July 14 to July 24… Read More Paper Featured on Cover of Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology August 20, 2014 Congratulations to Josh Blauer, Darrell Swenson, and Rob MacLeod, et. al. whose paper: J.J.E. Blauer,… Read More Understanding the Morphology of Brain Disorders August 12, 2014 This summer, high school students from the Salt Lake area are coming to the University… Read More Neuro Stimulation July 29, 2014 There has been a recent explosion of interest in the use of noninvasive transcranial brain… Read More SCIRun 5 Development July 29, 2014 SCIRun is the integrated programming environment that has been a core technology of the CIBC… Read More Mesh Generation and Cleaver July 29, 2014 Figure 1: 3D surface mesh of a face. Partial differential equations (PDEs) are ubiquitous in… Read More Introducing Deformetrica July 28, 2014 Developed in collaboration with INRIA, and available for download at www.deformetrica.org, Deformetrica is a software… Read More MRL Podcast: Deformation Causes Vascular Alignment During Angiogenesis July 25, 2014 Read More Miriah Meyer Receives NSF CAREER Award July 16, 2014 Congratulations to Dr. Miriah Meyer who has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for her… Read More FEBio 2.0 Released May 29, 2014 It’s with great pleasure that we announce the release of version 2.0 of FEBio (Finite… Read More Chris Butson Joins the SCI Institute as an Associate Professor of Bioengineering May 29, 2014 Dr. Butson received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland, M.S. in… Read More Topological Methods in Data Analysis and Visualization III May 29, 2014 Congratulations to Valerio Pascucci and Peer-Timo Bremer whose co-edited book “Topological Methods in Data Analysis… Read More Kedar Aras Wins Young Investigator Competition May 28, 2014 Congratulations to Kedar Aras who won the Young Investigator prize at the 39th Annual International… Read More Evolution of the Medical Classroom May 28, 2014 Introducing ViSOAR. As data acquisition advances, and data sizes increase, the need for tools to… Read More Big Data, Big Business February 8, 2014 From the University of Utah: Feb. 7, 2014 – The University of Utah’s College of… Read More SCI’s Michael Liu on Winning Team at Hackdance January 30, 2014 SCI Graduate student Michael Liu was a key member on the team that took the… Read More Computer Simulation of Blood Vessel Growth: Early Step toward Treatment for Diseases that Affect Blood Flow January 23, 2014 Jan. 22, 2014 – University of Utah bioengineers showed that tiny blood vessels grow better… Read More Chris Johnson and Ross Whitaker Elected IEEE Fellows January 13, 2014 Congratulations to Professors Chris Johnson and Ross Whitaker who have been elected IEEE Fellows for… Read More itk-SNAP 3.0 Released January 9, 2014 The itk-SNAP project, a collaboration between UPenn’s Paul Yushkevich and SCI’s Guido Gerig, has released a… Read More Neural Bioelectricity with EGI December 19, 2013 In collaboration with Dr. Don Tucker and his colleagues at Electrical Geodesics Inc (EGI) and… Read More Cam Femoroacetabular Impingement Analysis using Statistical Shape Modeling December 18, 2013 Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is caused by reduced clearance between the femoral head and acetabulum due… Read More MRI Image Quantification Analysis for Atrial Fibrillation December 17, 2013 Corview screenshot Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a cardiac rhythm disturbance in which the atria, the… Read More Deep Brain Stimulation Planning with ImageVis3D December 16, 2013 Overview of the DBS system. The DBS electrode is implanted in the brain during stereotactic… Read More New Strategies in Biomedical Mesh Generation December 16, 2013 A cross-section of a 3-dimensional, tetrahedral mesh of a torso. Each separate organ type is… Read More Software Dissemination at the CIBC December 16, 2013 For years, a central focus of the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing has been software… Read More Chris Johnson Receives Sidney Fernbach Award November 19, 2013 Congratulations to Professor Chris Johnson who was awarded the IEEE Computer Society 2013 Sidney Fernbach… Read More SCIRun 4.7 with BioMesh3D Released November 14, 2013 The SCIRun development team is pleased to announce the release of SCIRun 4.7 with meshing… Read More Academic Senate approves new certificates November 4, 2013 Press Release from The Utah Daily Chronicle By Nathan Turner on October 7, 2013. Contact… Read More Today’s Tools – Tomorrow’s Scientists: An ImageVis3D Project October 29, 2013 The SCI Institute holds a strong belief that providing research opportunities to undergraduate and even… Read More ViSUS Gigapixel David Available at iTunes App Store October 8, 2013 The first gigapixel, multi-view rendering of The Digital Michelangelo Project’s David can now be downloaded… Read More Miriah Meyer Chosen PopTech Science Fellow September 23, 2013 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been chosen as a 2013 PopTech Science Fellow! PopTech’s… Read More Best Student Paper Runner-Up Awarded at PSA 2013 September 21, 2013 Congratulations to Dan Maljovec, et. at, whose paper was chosen first runner-up for Best Student… Read More Fresh Tracks September 4, 2013 Welcome to the Fresh Tracks Newsletter, highlighting news from the SCI Institute. Since our first… Read More UDCC Open House September 3, 2013 Wednesday, September 11th 11 am to 2 pm University of Utah Warnock Engineering Building, Catmull… Read More NNSA Announces Selection of Centers of Excellence for Academic Computational Science Partnerships July 31, 2013 Press Release from the National Nuclear Security Administration Website, June 27, 2013. WASHINGTON, D.C. –… Read More SCI Papers Spotlighted in TVCG June and August Issues July 8, 2013 Congratulations to Harsh Bhatia, Valerio Pascucci, and Peer-Timo Bremer, et. al. whose paper: H. Bhatia,… Read More SCI Team Wins HBM Hackathon Challenge June 26, 2013 Congratulations to Kris Zygmunt, Wei Liu, and Sean McKenna for winning the second challenge of… Read More Ross Whitaker Selected Member of CRA CCC May 30, 2013 Congratulations to SCI faculty member Ross Whitaker who has been selected to serve on the… Read More Explore Utah Science: When Art and Science Intertwine May 6, 2013 See original article on Explore Utah Science website: “When Art and Science Intertwine” Written by … Read More Chris Johnson to be Featured Speaker at FiRe 2013 April 22, 2013 Dr. Johnson will be a featured speaker at the 2013 Future in Review (FiRe 2013)… Read More Chris Johnson Elected to CRA Board of Directors March 18, 2013 SCI Institute Director Chris Johnson has been elected a new member of the Computing Research… Read More FluoRender 2.12 Released March 4, 2013 We are happy to announce the 2.12 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release… Read More Fresh Tracks January 18, 2013 Welcome to the first Fresh Tracks Newsletter, highlighting news from the SCI Institute. 2012 was… Read More Guido Gerig Co-author on AJP Best Paper December 20, 2012 Dr. Guido Gerig co-authored a paper that made the list of the American Journal of… Read More Dongbin Xiu Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as a Professor of Mathematics December 6, 2012 Dongbin Xiu has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as… Read More CMBBE 2013 Conference December 5, 2012 11th INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTER METHODS IN BIOMECHANICS AND BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING http://cmbbe13.sci.utah.edu April 3-7, 2013… Read More Jeff Weiss to Receive ASME 2013 Van Mow Medal December 5, 2012 Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Weiss who has been selected to receive the 2013 Van Mow… Read More Cleaver v1.5 Released December 4, 2012 The CIBC development team is pleased to announce the release of Cleaver v1.5. Cleaver is… Read More Solving Mysteries of Autism via The Power of Collaboration November 30, 2012 Dr. Guido Gerig Early-Brain Development Research Reveals Vibrant Clues By Peta Owens-Liston Dr. Guido Gerig… Read More SCIx 2012 November 13, 2012 The Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute hosted the second annual SCIx Open House on Tuesday,… Read More Miriah Meyer Selected as 2013 TED Fellow November 8, 2012 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been selected as a 2013 TED Fellow. This honor… Read More ImageVis3D 3.0.0 Released October 24, 2012 The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 3.0.0! ImageVis3D is a… Read More CIBC and ImageVis3D Mobile Recognized in List of Important Events in NCRR History October 23, 2012 Among the list of important events in NCRR history published in the NIH Almanac is… Read More Tolga Tasdizen Awarded NSF CAREER Award August 31, 2012 Congratulations to SCI Faculty member and USTAR Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Tolga… Read More ImageVis3D 2.1.1 and Mobile Universal 4.0 Released August 8, 2012 The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 2.1.1. DOWNLOAD NOW ImageVis3D… Read More SCIRun 4.6 with BioMesh3D Released June 21, 2012 The SCIRun development team is pleased to announce the release of SCIRun 4.6 with meshing… Read More Mobile Mayhem: Researchers Harness Kraken to Model Explosions via Transport June 11, 2012 by Gregory Scott Jones – NICS The crater resulting from the Spanish Fork Detonation. First,… Read More Chris Johnson Receives the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award May 23, 2012 Congratulations to Chris Johnson on receiving the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award in recognition… Read More Miriah Meyer Named as Microsoft Research Faculty Fellow May 23, 2012 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty… Read More MRL Release CT Arthrogram of Hip Datasets May 23, 2012 In a recent study, researchers at the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories (MRL) examined the mechanics of… Read More Meshing for Multimaterial Biological Volumes: BioMesh3D May 21, 2012 Figure from R.S. MacLeod, et al., Subjectspecific, multiscale simulation of electrophysiology: a software pipeline for… Read More Atrial Fibrillation May 21, 2012 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an electrophysiological condition that represents an increasing problem in the aging… Read More Uncertainty Visualization May 21, 2012 An Isosurface visualization of a magnetic resonance imaging data set (in orange) surrounded by a… Read More Miriah Meyer Named Top 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company May 16, 2012 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer, who has been named amongst the top 100 most creative people… Read More Utah-Led Group Gets $15M from Army to Design New Materials May 16, 2012 May 7, 2012 – U.S. soldiers are increasingly weighed down by batteries to power weapons,… Read More Epinome: Visual-Analytics for Epidemiology Data April 26, 2012 Early detection and rapid response to infectious-disease outbreaks rely on effective decision making based on… Read More Visualizing the Future of Medicine April 16, 2012 CIBC Software freatures prominently in Scientific Computing World’s interview of Chris Johnson “Visualizing the Future… Read More U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu Announces SDAV April 1, 2012 Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a $25 million five-year initiative to help scientists better extract… Read More CARMA Team Hosts Successful Atrial Fibrillation Symposium March 6, 2012 The Western Atrial Fibrillation Symposium is a comprehensive education meeting focused exclusively on atrial fibrillation. The… Read More U Receives $2.9 Million for Down Syndrom Research March 3, 2012 University of Utah Receives $2.9 Million Grant for Groundbreaking Down Syndrome Research. Studies including Utah… Read More The Art of Science February 29, 2012 February 11, 2012 – April 7, 2012 Art Talk Thursday, March 15th, 6-7pm. Kimball Art Center, 638… Read More Utah Image Processing Group Plays Key Role in Autism Research February 23, 2012 Brain Imaging Differences Evident at 6 Months in High-Risk Infants Who Later Develop Autism A… Read More Chuck Hansen Elected IEEE Fellow November 28, 2011 Congratulations to Dr. Chuck Hansen who has been elected an IEEE Fellow in recognition of… Read More Supercomputing 2012 to be held in SLC November 17, 2011 For 24 years, SC has been at the forefront in gathering the best and brightest… Read More Harsh Bhatia Awarded Lawrence Scholar Graduate Fellowship November 1, 2011 Congratulations to Harsh Bhatia on receiving the Lawrence Scholar Graduate Fellowship. Lawrence Scholars are appointed… Read More SCIx to showcase experts and resources at the University of Utah October 31, 2011 University of Utah Media Release Internationally Recognized Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute to Hold… Read More SCIRun 4.5 with BioMesh3D Released October 27, 2011 The SCIRun development team are pleased to announce the release of SCIRun 4.5 with meshing… Read More FEBio 1.4 Released October 14, 2011 The MRL Software development team is excited to announce the arrival of version 1.4 of… Read More Valerio Pascucci designated DOE Fellow October 3, 2011 Congratulations to Valerio Pascucci who has been recognized as a DOE Fellow. Dr. Pascucci was… Read More ImageVis3D Mobile 3.0 Released August 26, 2011 The ImageVis3D development team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D (IV3D) Mobile 3.0!… Read More Miriah Meyer Designated Technology Review 35 August 23, 2011 Congratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been selected by Technology Review Magazine as one of… Read More FluoRender 2.8 Released May 27, 2011 We are happy to announce the 2.8 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release… Read More Greg Jones Voted Top 100 vSpring Capital Venture Entrepreneur for 2011 May 3, 2011 Congratulations go out to our Associate Director Greg Jones who has been designated a v|100… Read More ImageVis3D 2.0 Released April 29, 2011 The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 2.0. Download ImageVis3D is a… Read More CARMA Collaborator Dr. Nassir Marrouche Profiled in Continuum March 25, 2011 CIBC collaborator Dr. Nassir Marrouche is profiled in the Spring 2011 issue of the Continuum…. Read More CARMA Team Receives Utah Innovation Award March 15, 2011 Congratulations to Rob MacLeod, Nassir Marrouche and the CARMA Team who have recently received the… Read More Announcing Seg3D 2.0 February 17, 2011 We are pleased to announce the next generation Seg3D. Version 2.0 features a new more… Read More Imaging Meets Electrophysiology December 10, 2010 Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common—and perhaps most insidious—form of heart rhythm disturbance and… Read More ImageVis3D Mobile Universal 2.0 Released December 9, 2010 ImageVis3D developers are pleased to announce the release of ImageVis3D Mobile Universal 2.0. It is… Read More Fluorender Used for Prizewinning Photomicrograph December 9, 2010 SCI collaborator Hideo Otsuna, won 2nd place in Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition 2010 for… Read More Guido Gerig Elected Fellow of AIMBE December 9, 2010 Dr. Guido Gerig has been elected a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and… Read More Guido Gerig Coauthor on Neuroimage Top Cited Paper December 9, 2010 The journal NeuroImage recently released it’s list of the top ten most cited articles over… Read More FluoRender 2.7 Released November 30, 2010 We are happy to announce the 2.7 release of FluoRender. There are some exciting improvements… Read More Rob MacLeod and Nassir Marrouche Interviewed in Pictures of the Future November 25, 2010 Dr. Robert MacLeod and Dr. Nassir F. Marrouche are interviewed on their atrial fibrillation research… Read More SCI to Hold Open House During VisWeek October 28, 2010 SCI will host an open house for Vis Week conference attendees October 28th from 6:30… Read More ViSUS In The News October 27, 2010 ViSUS software has received a great deal of news recently due to it’s ability to… Read More Chris Johnson Honored with 2010 Visualization Career Award October 27, 2010 CHRIS JOHNSON, director of the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, has been… Read More SCI Helps New Businesses Develop Software September 20, 2010 U News Center September 20, 2010 — University of Utah faculty develop a wealth of… Read More Chuck Hansen features prominently in College research report August 25, 2010 SCI faculty Chuck Hansen’s career in visualization is prominently featured in the 2010 College of… Read More Orly Alter Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as a USTAR Associate Professor of Bioengineering August 13, 2010 Orly Alter has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as… Read More CIBC Research Spotlighted in NCRR Reporter August 6, 2010 Research at the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) was highlighted as a “Visualizing Success”… Read More Visualization July 27, 2010 Figure from T. Fogal and J. Krüger, a Clearview rendering of the visible human male… Read More Simulation of Electric Stimulation for Bone Growth July 26, 2010 Figure from B.M. Issacson, et al., A unilateral hierarchical model was assembled as a representative… Read More Subject Specific, Multiscale Simulation of Electrophysiology July 26, 2010 A “typical” workflow that applies to many problems in biomedical simulation contains the following elements:… Read More Announcing SCIRun 4.4 with BioMesh3D July 20, 2010 The SCIRun development team is pleased to announce the completion of SCIRun 4.4 with meshing… Read More VisTrails 1.5 Released July 12, 2010 The VisTrails development team is pleased to announce the release of VisTrails 1.5. The new… Read More Greg Jones Voted Top 100 vSpring Capital Venture Entrepreneur for 2010 July 12, 2010 Congratulations go out to our Associate Director Greg Jones who has been designated a v|100… Read More 2010 Rosenblatt Prize Awarded to Computer Scientist and Director of SCI Institute May 7, 2010 May 7, 2010 — Christopher R. Johnson, distinguished professor of computer science and director of… Read More ImageVis3D Mobile Goes Nuclear May 7, 2010 SALT LAKE CITY — The future of computers is here, and University of Utah scientists… Read More Huy Vo Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship for Second Year Running March 30, 2010 SCI graduate student Huy Vo has been awarded an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for 2010-2011. This… Read More Lowell Edgar wins 1st Prize in Student Presentation Competition at CMBBE 2010 March 1, 2010 SCI/MRL Lab graduate student Lowell Edgar received 1st prize in the Student Presentation Competition for… Read More MRL Releases FEBio 1.2 February 20, 2010 Febio 1.2.0 is now available for download. It includes several new features including: faster, multi-threaded… Read More Tom Fletcher and Sarang Joshi paper awarded “most cited” by Signal Processing January 21, 2010 The international journal Signal Processing has announced its award for the 2010 Signal Processing most… Read More Announcing VisTrails 1.4 January 12, 2010 The VisTrails development team is pleased to announce the release of VisTrails 1.4. The new… Read More ParaView Now Includes the VisTrails Provenance Plugin January 5, 2010 Kitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Lab have released ParaView 3.6.2. The latest… Read More ImageVis3D Mobile iPhone App Hits the News October 9, 2009 The release of ImageVis3D Mobile for the iPhone has received wide coverage. In addition to… Read More Tom Fogal and Jens Krüger’s work on “ClearView” profiled on German ScienceBlogs. October 5, 2009 See full story on ScienceBlogs. Read More SCI Starts New Phase in the Warnock Engineering Building September 29, 2009 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has begun a new phase of life in the… Read More Chris Johnson Awarded Cyber Pioneer Award September 25, 2009 Chris Johnson, director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, will receive the prestigious Cyber… Read More ImageVis3D Mobile now available September 21, 2009 ImageVis3D Mobile for the iPhone is now available from Apple iTunes App store. Read More Claudio Silva Coauthor on 2nd Most Cited Paper in TVCG 15-Year History July 14, 2009 In celebration of the 15th anniversary of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, a… Read More Announcing VisTrails 1.3 and 1.2.2 July 6, 2009 The VisTrails development team is happy to announce the release of two new versions of… Read More ImageVis3D Released May 29, 2009 The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 1.0! ImageVis3D is a… Read More SCI Welcomes Juliana Freire May 15, 2009 Juliana Freire joins the SCI Institute from the School of Computing at the University of… Read More Introducing ShapeWorks May 11, 2009 The ShapeWorks software is an open-source distribution of a new method for constructing compact statistical… Read More Chris Johnson Selected as SIAM Fellow May 1, 2009 SCI Director Dr. Chris Johnson has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied… Read More Huy Vo Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship April 13, 2009 SCI graduate student Huy Vo has been awarded an NVIDIA Fellowship for 2009-2010. Huy is… Read More SCI and Moran Eye Center Collaboration Completes Map of Eye Neurocircuitry April 9, 2009 A SCI research team, lead by Dr. Tolga Tasdizen and Dr. Ross Whitaker, in collaboration… Read More VisTrails Provenance Explorer for Maya Wins Utah Innovation Award March 31, 2009 Congratulations are in order to the VisTrails team. Their Provenance Explorer for Maya has won… Read More NSF Open Wildland Fire Modeling March 26, 2009 SCI, in collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of… Read More Chris Johnson and Ross Whitaker Present at the Library of Congress “Computing Research that Changed the World” March 25, 2009 Chris Johnson – “Computing and Visualizing the Future of Medicine” (video not available) Ross Whitaker… Read More Greg Jones Voted Top 100 vSpring Capital Venture Entrepreneur for 2009 March 13, 2009 Congratulations go out to our Associate Director Greg Jones who was recently designated a v|100… Read More SCIRun Version 4.0 Released December 16, 2008 The NIH/NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) is pleased to announce the release of… Read More SCI Research on Display at SLC Library December 16, 2008 The SCI Institute, in partnership with the Department of Radiology has been working towards new… Read More Imaging Meets Electrophysiology December 16, 2008 By Rob MacLeod, Professor and Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Bioengineering Atrial fibrillation… Read More FEBio Profiled in BioMedical Computation December 16, 2008 FEBio software profiled in Spring 2008 issue of BioMedical Computation. Download the pdf here Read More Greg Jones Named Associate Director of Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute December 16, 2008 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute is delighted to welcome Dr. Greg Jones back to… Read More Tolga Tasdizen to Serve as a USTAR Faculty Member Within the SCI Institute December 16, 2008 Dr. Tolga Tasdizen has joined the SCI faculty as an Assistant Professor of the Department… Read More Greg Jones Voted Top 100 vSpring Capital Venture Entrepreneur for 2008 December 16, 2008 Congratulations go out to our new Associate Director Greg Jones who was recently designated a… Read More Steve Corbató Named Director of Cyberinfrastructure Strategic Initiatives at the University of Utah December 16, 2008 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute congratulates Dr. Steve Corbató on being named Director of… Read More Center for Computational Earth Sciences at the SCI Institute December 15, 2008 Ross Whitaker (PI), Chuck Hansen, Claudio Silva, Valerio Pascucci, and Greg Jones have been awarded… Read More Visualizing Election Polls October 6, 2008 A New, Animated, Interactive Way to Analyze Opinion Data Media Contacts Oct. 6, 2008 -… Read More NVIDIA Recognizes University Of Utah as a CUDA Center Of Excellence July 31, 2008 University of Utah Latest in a Growing List of Exceptional Schools Demonstrating Pioneering Work in… Read More CRCNS: Fighting Blindness April 5, 2008 Despite great advances in neuroscience and medical technology in recent decades, nearly ten million Americans… Read More Remembering Gene Golub – Salt Lake City, Utah March 1, 2008 Friends of Gene Golub gathered at Chris Johnson’s and Kate Coles’ home on February 29,… Read More Autism Research Profiled in Salt Lake Magazine February 1, 2008 The February 2008 Issue of Salt Lake magazine includes a profile of groundbreaking research being… Read More Announcing VisTrails 1.0 November 1, 2007 Fig 1: The VisTrails history tree contains a node for each version of a workflow… Read More Guido Gerig Joins Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute October 15, 2007 Guido Gerig joins the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as a… Read More Neuro Image Analysis Team Joins SCI Institute October 1, 2007 (L-R) Dr. Guido Gerig, Dr. Marcel Prastawa, Casey Goodlett, Sylvain Gouttard The SCI Institute is… Read More Won-Ki Jeong Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship September 14, 2007 SCI graduate student Won-Ki Jeong was selected as one of 10 applicants to be awarded… Read More Developing the Next Generation Tools for Preoperative Planning for Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators September 10, 2007 BioPSE visualizing the electrical field generated by an ICD device. One of the exciting projects… Read More map3d 6.5 Now Available July 14, 2007 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing are proud… Read More Steve Parker Selected Member of DARPA Computer Science Study Group March 14, 2007 Dr. Steve Parker has been selected by the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)… Read More CIBC Collaborator Mario Capecchi Wins Nobel Prize March 14, 2007 The NIH Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) and the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI)… Read More MRL Releases FEBio 1.0 Software Suite March 14, 2007 The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute and the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories are proud to announce… Read More Claudio Silva Receives IBM Faculty Award for Third Year Running March 14, 2007 Dr. Claudio Silva has been honored once again with a coveted IBM Faculty Award. This… Read More SCI Graduate Student Andrew Kensler Wins Mozy Coding Deathmatch March 14, 2007 Andrew Kensler took the $10,000 grand prize in Mozy.com’s Coding Deathmatch. The contest consisted of… Read More SCIRun Meets CCA: SCIJump Released for Testing March 14, 2007 SCIJump is a computational environment or framework based on the Common Component Architecture (CCA) standard… Read More Building a Better Brain Atlas March 1, 2007 Thursday, 01 March 2007 19:51 In 1909 the Broadman areas map was published which localized… Read More Announcing SCIRun/BioPSE 3.0 February 15, 2007 BioPSE network computing the effects of electrode placement on the electrical field in the heart… Read More SCI Grad Student Helps Solve Open Problem in Computational Geometry September 13, 2006 SCI graduate student Jason F. Shepherd and coauthor Carlos D. Carbonera have published a solution… Read More Steve Corbató Named Associate Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute May 15, 2006 Steve Corbató has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as… Read More VisTrails: A New Paradigm for Dataflow Management May 10, 2006 Modern problem solving environments such as SCIRun have provided scientists with the essential tools for… Read More The Mechanics of Angiogenesis May 5, 2006 Angiogenesis, or the formation of new blood vessels, is a critical part of tissue growth… Read More Embryos Exposed in 3-D May 4, 2006 New Method Can Identify What Genes Do, Test Drugs’ Safety May 4, 2006 — Utah… Read More Three SCI Developers Among Winners of Mozy.com’s Code Deathmatch March 13, 2006 Competing individually in the Mozy Code Deathmatch, SCI developers McKay Davis, Michael Callahan and Bryan… Read More SCI to Collaborate on Three New SciDAC Centers March 13, 2006 The SCI Institute is pleased to announce that it will be participating in three DOE… Read More Dr. Sarang Joshi joins SCI Institute March 13, 2006 Dr. Sarang Joshi has joined SCI as an Associate Professor of the Department of Bio… Read More Claudio Silva Receives Second IBM Faculty Award March 13, 2006 Dr. Claudio Silva has been honored once again with a coveted IBM Faculty Award. This… Read More Steve Parker Listed Among HPCwire’s 2006 “People to Watch” March 13, 2006 Parker, Steve Research Assistant Professor University of Utah “The impact of high-performance computing on society… Read More The Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing February 8, 2006 SCI is pleased to announce the launch of our new NCRR Center for Integrative Biomedical… Read More The Center for Interactive Ray-Tracing and Photo Realistic Visualization February 8, 2006 The SCI Institute is honored to host a new Center of Excellence for Interactive Ray-Tracing… Read More Greg Jones Appointed State Science Advisor September 12, 2005 By PR and Business Wire News, 9/12/2005 03:36:02 PM MT Utah Governor Jon M. Huntsman,… Read More Top Scientific Visualization Research Problems May 5, 2005 Scientific visualization as currently understood and practiced is still a relatively new discipline. As a… Read More SCIRun/BioPSE 1.24.2 Now Available March 13, 2005 Thanks to everyone for their feedback on the 1.24.0-beta pre-release. Based on your suggestions, we… Read More SCIRun ported to SGI Prism March 13, 2005 The SCI Institute is proud to announce the availability of SCIRun on the Silicon Graphics… Read More CT Segmentation and 3-D Reconstruction with Morphometric Analysis for Evaluation of Occipital-Cervical Instability in Children February 16, 2005 Lindsey J. Healy Down syndrome is a common chromosomal disorder that affects 0.15 percent of… Read More Chris Johnson Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science February 16, 2005 Chris Johnson, a distinguished professor of computer science and director of the Scientific Computing and… Read More Chuck Hansen Receives IEEE 2005 Visualization Technical Achievement Award February 16, 2005 Dr. Chuck Hansen has been awarded the 2005 Visualization Technical Achievement Award by the Visualization… Read More Level-Set Metamorphosis Goes Hollywood September 1, 2004 Associate Professor Ross Whitaker and Assistant Professor David Breen (Drexel University) have been developing surface… Read More Visualization of Vortex Flow Structures in Aerodynamics Applications August 2, 2004 Dr. Xavier Tricoche Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become an essential tool in various engineering… Read More Nvidia Fellowship Awarded July 16, 2004 SCI graduate student Guo-Shi Li was selected among many applications for an Nvidia fellowship. This… Read More Chris Johnson Testifies Before Senate Sub-Committee July 16, 2004 Chris Johnson, SCI Institute director, testified June 23rd on Capitol Hill before the Congressional Biomedical… Read More SCI Announces the Publication of “The Visualization Handbook” July 16, 2004 The SCI Institute announces the publication of “The Visualization Handbook,” edited by two of SCI… Read More SCI Annouces Certificate Program for Computational Bioimaging July 16, 2004 The SCI Institute announces a new graduate level certificate program for Computational Bioimaging. The creation… Read More SCI Professor Wins Paracel Cyclone Cluster July 16, 2004 The SCI Institute is pleased to announce that Professor Mike Kirby, faculty member in both… Read More Dr. Johnson Gives Frontiers of Science Lecture July 16, 2004 Dr. Chris Johnson presented a lecture entitled “Computing the Future of Biomedicine” as part of… Read More Visualization of Anatomic Covariance Tensor Fields June 9, 2004 Gordon L. Kindlmann, David M. Weinstein, Agatha D. Lee, Arthur W. Toga, Paul M. Thompson… Read More Interactive Point Based Isosurface Extraction June 9, 2004 Yarden Livnat, Xavier Tricoche We have proposed a novel point-based approach to view dependent isosurface… Read More BioTensor: Visualizing Diffusion Tensor MRI January 10, 2004 Diffusion tensor MRI visualization is a growing field of research. The scanners are collecting better… Read More Scientific Visualization in Small Animal Imaging January 8, 2004 Gordon Kindlmann, Richard A. Normann, Arun Badi, Charles Keller, Greg M. Jones, Christopher R. Johnson… Read More First Year ESP Recipients Walk at Graduation July 10, 2003 Pictured here are three of our first year scholarship recipients of the Undergraduate Engineering Scholars… Read More Steve Parker Accepts Computerworld Honors June 10, 2003 The SCI Institute was recognized April 6th in San Francisco City Hall when it received… Read More Collaborative Remote Visualization March 17, 2003 Jennifer Simpson, Eric luke, MS., Allen Sanderson, Phd. Introduction In the last few years, scientists… Read More Undergraduate Research at the SCI Institute March 17, 2003 Undergraduate research opportunities at the University of Utah have dramatically increased in the past several… Read More Chris Johnson Receives Distinguished Professor Award March 10, 2003 SCI Institute Director Chris Johnson was recently promoted to the rank of Distinguished Professor of… Read More SCI Institute Welcomes New Faculty January 9, 2003 Mike Kirby joins us from Brown University.The focus of his research focus deals with large-… Read More Star-Ray Interactive Ray-Tracer Debuts at SIGGRAPH 2002 July 27, 2002 Michelangelo’s David; a large-scale seismic volume; the moons of Jupiter; four half-full wine glasses; the… Read More Parametric Method for Correction of Intensity Inhomogeneity in MRI Data June 17, 2002 A. Samsonov, R. Whitaker, C.R. Johnson Intensity inhomogeneity is one of the main obstacles for… Read More SCI Institute Plays Role In Governor’s State of the State January 28, 2002 For four-year-old Natalie Wright, appearing in front of the state legislature might be just another… Read More SCI Institute Director Gives Plenary Talk on Visualization at Supercomputing 2001 November 22, 2001 Dr. Chris Johnson delivered a plenary talk entitled “Scientific Visualization: Bridging the Complexity Threshold” at… Read More Segmenting Tomographic Data September 28, 2001 Dr. Ross Whitaker and Vidya Elangovan Traditionally, processing tomographic data begins with reconstructing volumes. However,… Read More Immersive Visualization: A Research Update September 20, 2001 J.D. Brederson and M. Ikits What is Immersive Visualization? The goal of visualization is to… Read More BISTI Grant Awarded to SCI September 5, 2001 The SCI Institute has been formally awarded a National Institutes of Health grant from the… Read More SCI and the Governor’s New Ecosystem August 28, 2001 On August 28, 2001, Dr. Chris Johnson attended a press conference conducted by Utah Governor… Read More map3d 5.2 now Available July 23, 2001 map3d is a scientific visualization application developed at the Nora Eccles Harrison Cardiovascular Research and… Read More SCIRun 1.2.0 Released July 10, 2001 The SCI Institute proudly releases SCIRun version 1.2.0. In direct response to feedback from program… Read More The Simian Project July 10, 2001 By J. Kniss, G. Kindlmann, C. Hansen This page documents the evolution of our volume… Read More SCIRun/BioPSE: Problem Solving Environments for the Next Generation of Scientific Computing March 29, 2001 In March of 2001, the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute reached a milestone with the… Read More SCI Institute Hosts Governor to Launch Ambitious Engineering Educational Initiative March 19, 2001 On March 19th, Governor Michael Leavitt visited the SCI Institute for a bill signing ceremony… Read More The Science and Application of Complex Meshes January 22, 2001 Lisa Durbeck Part 1. Unstructured Meshes in Entertainment and Engineering Tomb Raider If you have… Read More SCI Undergrads Present Before State Legislature January 18, 2001 Two SCIers, Darby Brown and Jesse Hall, were given a rare opportunity to showcase their… Read More SCI Institute Appeals to Local Business Leadership for Increases In State Funding January 17, 2001 On January 17th Dr. Christopher Johnson, director of the SCI Institute, appealed to local information… Read More The Mathematics Behind Imaging January 10, 2001 By Oleg Portniaguine. An interesting, but very challenging kind of imaging is to visualize the… Read More SCI Institute Establishes Access Grid Node July 14, 2000 With the rapid advancement of new communication technologies, today’s scientists are able to communicate more… Read More New Methods for Revealing Brain Structure July 14, 2000 By Gordon Kindlmann. The technology of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used in an… Read More
