Dr. Johnson will be a featured speaker at the 2013 Future in Review (FiRe 2013) conference. He will be among a number of other distinguished guests including the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Mdme. Janet Napolitano. The conference will be held May 21 – 24 in Laguna Beach, California. This year’s conference is […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Nikhil Singh, Jacob Hinkle, Sarang Joshi and Tom Fletcher whose paper was awarded “Best Student Paper” at the ISBI 2013 Conference. N.P. Singh, J. Hinkle, S. Joshi, P.T. Fletcher. “A Vector Momenta Formulation of Diffeomorphisms for Improved Geodesic Regression and Atlas Construction,” In IEEE Proceedings of ISBI 2013, Note: Received Best Student Paper […]
Read MoreSCI Institute Director Chris Johnson has been elected a new member of the Computing Research Association (CRA) Board of Directors. Johnson’s three-year term on the board will begin July 1, 2013. The CRA “is an association of more than 200 North American academic departments of computer science, computer engineering, and related fields; laboratories and centers […]
Read MoreWe are happy to announce the 2.12 release of FluoRender. For details, check the release notes and download FluoRender at www.fluorender.com. Release Notes 03/04/2013 FluoRender 2.12
Read MoreDr. Guido Gerig co-authored a paper that made the list of the American Journal of Psychiatry’s “Best of 2012” for their paper “Differences in White Matter Fiber Tract Development Present from 6 to 24 Months in Infants with Autism” In the AJP’s 2012 Year in Review, the editors discuss the significance of this paper:
Read MoreDongbin Xiu has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as a Professor of Mathematics. The SCI Institute focuses on solving important problems in biomedicine, science, and engineering using computation and is an international research leader in the areas of scientific computing, visualization, and image analysis.
Read MoreCongratulations to Dr. Jeff Weiss who has been selected to receive the 2013 Van Mow Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. This highly competitive award is ASME’s highest honor for a mid-career bioengineer. Jeff was chosen “… for seminal contributions to research in bimoechanics related to fundamental structure-function relationships in musculoskeletal soft tissues, subject-specific […]
Read MoreThe CIBC development team is pleased to announce the release of Cleaver v1.5. Cleaver is a C++ software library that generates conforming tetrahedral meshes of multimaterial volumetric data, with guarantees on dihedral angles. Cleaver is an implementation of the “Lattice Cleaving” algorithm, developed at the SCI Institute and published in the Proceedings of the 21st […]
Read MoreDr. Guido Gerig Early-Brain Development Research Reveals Vibrant Clues By Peta Owens-Liston Dr. Guido Gerig The glossy whiteboards that line the walls in offices, lounge areas, and conference rooms are one of the first things Guido Gerig, PhD, noted when the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute first began courting him to […]
Read MoreThe Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute hosted the second annual SCIx Open House on Tuesday, November 13th. At SCIx, the SCI Institute put its cutting-edge work on display for the public accompanied by a keynote presentation from Alan Kay. Alan Kay is a pioneer in object oriented programming and personal computing who conceived laptops years before […]
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