Congratulations go out to our Associate Director Greg Jones who has been designated a v|100 – vSpring Top 100 Venture Entrepreneur for a fourth year. The v|100 designation is given to those individuals voted most likely to lead a successful business venture in Utah within the next few years. The v|100 is designed to help […]
Read MoreMay 7, 2010 — Christopher R. Johnson, distinguished professor of computer science and director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute at the University of Utah, was honored at today’s university commencement ceremonies with the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the U’s most prestigious award. The $40,000 gift is presented annually to a faculty member […]
Read MoreSALT LAKE CITY — The future of computers is here, and University of Utah scientists keep pushing the envelope. They have developed new imaging programs that turn complex data into brilliant pictures you can view on your iPhone or iPad. ImageVis3D Mobile became available last fall, and new applications are emerging. The latest is an […]
Read MoreSCI graduate student Huy Vo has been awarded an NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship for 2010-2011. This is the second year he has achieved this award which is given to just ten students in the country each year. The NVIDIA Fellowship Program provides funding to Ph.D. students who are conducting research on topics which are expected to […]
Read MoreSCI/MRL Lab graduate student Lowell Edgar received 1st prize in the Student Presentation Competition for his research presentation at the Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering conference this last week in Valencia, Spain. The award includes 500 Euros.
Read MoreFebio 1.2.0 is now available for download. It includes several new features including: faster, multi-threaded linear solvers (Pardiso, SuperLU) contact improvements such as improved stability for large compression problems a new biphasic contact algorithm to simulate contact between two poroelastic materials new material models such as strain-dependant poroelasticity, Holmes-Mow elasticity, … As of this version, […]
Read MoreThe international journal Signal Processing has announced its award for the 2010 Signal Processing most cited paper goes to Riemannian Geometry for the Statistical Analysis of Diffusion Tensor Data” by Drs. Tom Fletcher and Sarang Joshi. This distinction is based solely on the highest number of cites, excluding self-citations, received by the end of 2009 […]
Read MoreThe VisTrails development team is pleased to announce the release of VisTrails 1.4. The new version contains quite a list of improvements and bug fixes. For details, see the release notes. Download Now
Read MoreKitware, Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Lab have released ParaView 3.6.2. The latest release now includes the VisTrails Provenance Explorer plugin in the Windows and Linux packages. VisTrails is an open-source scientific workflow and provenance management system developed at the SCI Institute that provides support for data exploration and visualization.
Read MoreThe release of ImageVis3D Mobile for the iPhone has received wide coverage. In addition to a news story on KSL channel 5, it has generated a number of print articles such as: The Daily Utah Chronicle: “U researchers develop iPhone applications”
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