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Orly Alter Joins the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute as a USTAR Associate Professor of Bioengineering
Orly Alter has joined the University of Utah’s Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute as a USTAR Associate Professor of Bioengineering. 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.
CIBC Research Spotlighted in NCRR Reporter
Research at the Center for Integrative Biomedical Computing (CIBC) was highlighted as a "Visualizing Success" example in the Winter issue of NCRR Reporter, 2010. See "Recovery Act Funds Fuel Innovative Research Collaborations." Also, in the same issue, the CIBC's iPhone app for ImageVis3D is profiled. See: "NCRR Grantee Creates iPhone Application."
Best Paper at Eurographics 2010
Congratulations to Claudio Silva, Erik Anderson, Emanuele Santos, and Juliana Freire who received the "Best Paper" award at EUROGRAPHICS 2010 for: C. Silva, E. Anderson, E. Santos, J. Freire. "Using VisTrails and Provenance for Teaching Scientific Visualization," In EUROGRAPHICS 2010 Educator Program, 2010.
Announcing SCIRun 4.4 with BioMesh3D
The SCIRun development team is pleased to announce the completion of SCIRun 4.4 with meshing tools. SCIRun 4.4 is available as a binary download for Windows and OS X and as a source download for Linux. The new binaries and source tar archives can be downloaded from our Software page.
VisTrails 1.5 Released
The VisTrails development team is pleased to announce the release of VisTrails 1.5. The new version contains quite a list of improvements and bug fixes. For details, see the release notes.Download Now
Greg Jones Voted Top 100 vSpring Capital Venture Entrepreneur for 2010
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 entrepreneurs and vSpring Capital establish and cultivate relationships among top CEO and CTO talent in the region. Members of this elite executive community are chosen through a peer-nominated and peer-selected process. Top members of the Utah business community were surveyed by a vSpring team to nominate the top 100 ventrue entrepreneurs in Utah. 2010 marks the seventh year of the v|100 Community. Greg was also selected as a v|100 member in 2009, 2008 and 2005.
FluoRender 2.5 Released
The FluoRender development team is pleased to announce the release of FluoRender 2.5. The new version has a number of new features. For details and downloads see the FluoRender Documentation page.
ImageVis3D Mobile Goes Nuclear
SALT 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 app that simulates a nuclear reaction.
The colorful, clear, 3-D images are created by ImageVis3D. The program takes abstract phenomena and data and turns it into something we can see and better understand. Those pictures help with teaching college students and with collaboration among professionals. They also point to the future of computers for all of us.
Huy Vo Awarded NVIDIA Fellowship for Second Year Running
SCI 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 lead to major advances in the graphics and digital media industry, and are investigating innovative ways of leveraging the power of graphics hardware. Huy Vo's graduate adviser is SCI faculty member Dr. Cláudio T. Silva. For more information about the award, please see the NVIDIA page "NVIDIA Fellowship Program"
Best Paper at Pacific Vis 2010
Congratulations to SCI graduate student Carson Brownlee who was awarded "Best Paper" at IEEE Pacific Visualization 2010 for:C. Brownlee, V. Pegoraro, S. Shankar, P. McCormick, C. Hansen "Physically-Based Interactive Schlieren Flow Visualization", Proceedings of Pacific Vis 2010.
Lowell Edgar wins 1st Prize in Student Presentation Competition at CMBBE 2010
SCI/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.