At the recent DHS University Summit, Hangzai Luo of the Charlotte Visualization Center, a Ph.D. student of Jianping Fan, won the DHS Director of Research award for Second Place Best Student Poster. This was in competition with students from all the DHS Centers of Excellence. His poster was titled, "Exploring Large-Scale News Video Databases via Visual Analysis".

VisCenter member Robert Kosara was one of the recipients of the Best Panel Award at the IEEE Visualization conference in Baltimore, MD, for the panel titled "Is There Science in Visualization?". It was organized by T.J. Jankun-Kelly, and panelists were Robert Kosara, Gordon Kindlmann, Chris North, Colin Ware, and E. Wes Bethel. The panels were judged by a committee based on "attendance, the quality of presentation, the interaction with the audience, and the potential for impact on the field."

Hosted by Dr. Celine Latulipe and Dr. Heather Richter
Software and Information Systems Department
College of Computing and Informatics
University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Schedule: Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
Location: 111 Cone Center

See detail at http://hci.sis.uncc.edu/hci/OpenHouse/

Complete contents of the Grand Opening Symposium on the Future of Visualization have been updated. Presentation slides and high-quality video streaming services are also available.

Check the contents at http://www.viscenter.uncc.edu/symposium06/