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Mechdyne Corporation today announced that it was selected to integrate and install an 8 Megapixel (MP) display wall at the Mike Barnsley Centre for Climate Research, a collaborative research facility opened today in Southwest Wales. The Centre, which is a joint venture between IBM, Swansea University and Technium Pembrokeshire, includes Blue Ice, an IBM supercomputer that researchers will use for research into environmental sciences and renewable energy utilizing high performance computing...

Remember when your computer screen looked flat, filled with boring old letters and numbers, when your info-tech life was about nothing more than e-mail, word processing, and spreadsheets? Now it's about YouTube (GOOG) and iTunes (AAPL), video and audio, movies and music, 3D living color and surround sound. How ironic that while your computer is working harder, you're not. The complexity under the hood is rising while your controls are simplifying to the computing equivalent of a key, a...

By Anne Eisenberg People share their videos on YouTube and their photos at Flickr. Now they can share graphs, charts and other illustrations they create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text. At an experimental Web site, Many Eyes, users can upload the more technical data they want to visualize, then try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays. These might range from maps of relationships in the New Testament to a display of the comparative...

By McClure, Richard Sircar, Sumit ABSTRACT. The current business environment is awash in vast amounts of data that ongoing transactions continually generate. Leading-edge corporations are using business analytics to achieve competitive advantage. However, educators are not adequately preparing business school students in quantitative methods to meet this challenge. For more than half a century, business schools have relied mostly on a course in calculus and a course in statistics to meet the...

PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- RTT USA, Inc. (RTT), a leader in realtime 3D visualization software and services for product design and marketing, today announced that Paul Debevec will join the company as a consultant to collaborate on special projects in the field of computer graphics generation. Debevec is considered to be a ground-breaking pioneer in the use of visual effects in the film industry. The results of his dissertation about the generation of special effects were...

Georgia Tech University announced Wednesday it had received a $3 million grant by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation for the establishment of a new research field in visual and data analytics.  And although researchers are highly optimistic about the nascent science, they must first find a more effective way to mine the enormous amounts of data from the Internet and complex scientific instruments.As it turns out, even sophisticated computers can suffer...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- New technology at Tufts University's Center for Scientific Visualization is enabling researchers to translate the most abstract, complex scientific concepts into clearer, more precise 3-dimensional images than conventional visualization systems can create. Funded by a $350,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Tufts' new 14-foot by 8-foot visualization display offers a combination of advanced features found nowhere else in New England and in only a few...

As scientists get closer to engineering new forms of life in test tubes, the University of Southampton is set to host an international conference on Artificial Life (Alife) that it believes will reveal major breakthroughs.The Artificial Life XI conference is to be held in Europe for the first time ever this August. The conference will be hosted by the Science and Engineering of Natural Systems (SENSe) group within the University's School of Electronics and Computer Science's (ECS)."It is...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Oil companies could soon harness the power of distant supercomputers to tackle problems such as where to place equipment and how to clean up oil spills.For decades, the industry has used computers to maximize profit and minimize environmental impact, explained Tahsin Kurc, assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Ohio State University.Typically, companies take seismic measurements of an oil reservoir and simulate drilling scenarios on a local computer. Now Kurc...

Human teams aided by a software system can make decisions more accurately and quickly in time-stressed situations than teams of just people, according to the Penn State researchers who developed the new software. The researchers tested their software in a military command-and-control simulation which involved intelligence gathering, logistics and force protection. When time pressures were normal, the human teams functioned well, sharing information and making correct decisions about the...