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SCI Starts New Phase in the Warnock Engineering Building

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The Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute has begun a new phase of life in the John E. and Marva M. Warnock Engineering Building, a newly constructed, state of the art research facility. The building is named for two primary donors who helped make it possible. John E. and Marva M. Warnock are both University of […]

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Chris Johnson Awarded Cyber Pioneer Award

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Chris Johnson, director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, will receive the prestigious Cyber Pioneer Award. Alan Hall, chair of the Utah Technology Council, will present the award at the 2009 Utah Cyber Symposium on September 25th. The award is designed to honor individuals who are pioneers in Utah’s high tech industry.

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Claudio Silva Coauthor on 2nd Most Cited Paper in TVCG 15-Year History

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In celebration of the 15th anniversary of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, a top 10 list of the most cited papers was compiled to illustrate the success of the journal. Second on the list was a paper by Marc Alexa, Johannes Behr, Daniel Cohen-Or, Shachar Fleishman, David Levin, and Claudio Silva entitled, “Computing […]

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Announcing VisTrails 1.3 and 1.2.2

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The VisTrails development team is happy to announce the release of two new versions of VisTrails. Version 1.3 contains lots of new features, improvements and a new version of the user’s guide. Version 1.2.2 contains lots of bug fixes and it’s basically a maintenance release of version 1.2.1. Both versions come with updated versions of […]

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ImageVis3D Released

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The ImageVis3D team is proud to announce the release of ImageVis3D 1.0! ImageVis3D is a desktop volume rendering application which was designed to visualize large data. Support is available for multiple rendering modes, such as 1D and 2D transfer functions, isosurface rendering, as well as specialized modes such as MIP and slice views. On modern […]

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SCI Welcomes Juliana Freire

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Juliana Freire joins the SCI Institute from the School of Computing at the University of Utah where she is an Associate Professor. Before joining the University of Utah, she was member of the technical staff at the Database Systems Research Department at Bell Laboratories (Lucent Technologies) and an Assistant Professor at OGI/OHSU. An important theme […]

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Introducing ShapeWorks

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The ShapeWorks software is an open-source distribution of a new method for constructing compact statistical point-based models of ensembles of similar shapes that does not rely on any specific surface parameterization. The method requires very little preprocessing or parameter tuning, and is applicable to a wide range of shape analysis problems, including nonmanifold surfaces and […]

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Chris Johnson Selected as SIAM Fellow

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SCI Director Dr. Chris Johnson has been selected by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) to be honored as a SIAM Fellow for his contributions to Scientific Computing and Visualization. The SIAM Fellow is a new honor designed to recognize a member’s outstanding contributions to the fields served by SIAM. Dr. Johnson is […]

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