by Gregory Scott Jones – NICS The crater resulting from the Spanish Fork Detonation. First, the bad news: all across America, trucks and tractor-trailers are transporting industrial explosives on nearly every artery of the country’s interstate and highway system. That’s right, volatile explosives, including munitions, rocket motors, and dynamite, are moving at a high rate […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Chris Johnson on receiving the IEEE IPDPS 2012 Charles Babbage Award in recognition of his innovations in the area of scientific visualization and their application to computational biomedicine, engineering, and scientific discovery. Read the full press release from the IEEE Computer Society (pdf). Learn more about the Charles Babbage AwardCharles Babbage Award
Read MoreCongratulations to Miriah Meyer who has been selected as one of seven Microsoft Research Faculty Fellows for 2012. The award recognizes innovative, promising new faculty members from research institutions around the world for their advancements in computing research. Miriah will receive her grant at Microsoft’s 2012 Faculty Summit on July 16-17 in Redmond, Washington. Salt […]
Read MoreIn a recent study, researchers at the Musculoskeletal Research Laboratories (MRL) examined the mechanics of cartilage in the normal hips of 10 healthy adult volunteers. Now they have made the de-identified CT arthrogram datasets available online for other researchers to download. The datasets were acquired as part of a research project on the biomechanics of […]
Read MoreFigure from R.S. MacLeod, et al., Subjectspecific, multiscale simulation of electrophysiology: a software pipeline for image-based models and application examples. Example A particle system provides adaptive sampling the various material boundaries of a segmented CT volume from a human torso. Over the past year the CIBC, in partnership with our collaborators, has begun to introduce […]
Read MoreAtrial fibrillation (AF) is an electrophysiological condition that represents an increasing problem in the aging populations of the world; AF doubles the risk of stroke and mortality and diminishes quality of life. The best current method to evaluate the progression of AF and monitor the success of interventions is via an invasive intra-cardiac catheter-based electrical […]
Read MoreAn Isosurface visualization of a magnetic resonance imaging data set (in orange) surrounded by a volume rendered region of low opacity (in green) to indicate uncertainty in surface position. The estimation and visualization of uncertainty information is an important research problem in both simulation and visualization. Uncertainty is a term used to describe the error, […]
Read MoreCongratulations to Miriah Meyer, who has been named amongst the top 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company. This honor places her in a rather esteemed and widespread group of individuals ranging from Fortune 500 leaders to music mogals.
Read MoreMay 7, 2012 – U.S. soldiers are increasingly weighed down by batteries to power weapons, detection devices and communications equipment. So the Army Research Laboratory has awarded a University of Utah-led consortium almost $15 million to use computer simulations to help design materials for lighter-weight, energy efficient devices and batteries. “We want to help the […]
Read MoreEarly detection and rapid response to infectious-disease outbreaks rely on effective decision making based on information from disparate sources. To improve decision-making in outbreak detection and response, it’s important to understand how public health practitioners seek relevant information. Epinome, a user-centric visual-analytics system, supports research on decision-making in public health, particularly evaluation of information search […]
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