Dr William Ribarsky

1. Dr William Ribarsky Angela McCarthy BU4061 Study Period 1 2010

2. Background - History • Obtained Ph.D. in Physics from University of Cincinnati in 1974 • Founding director of the Charlotte Visualization Center • Dr. Ribarsky is former Chair and current Director of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee • Member of the Steering Committees for the IEEE Visualization Conference and the IEEE Virtual Reality Conference

3. Background - History • Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics • Currently an Editorial Board member for IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications • Co-founded the Eurographics/IEEE visualization conference series (now called EG/IEEE EuroVis) • Helped to establish the current Virtual Reality Conference series • In 2007, general co-chair of the IEEE Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST) Symposium • Was Principal Research Scientist in the College of Computing • Associate Director for External Relations of the GVU Center

4. Background - Current • Dr. Ribarskyis the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte • Director of Charlotte Visualization Center • Research Areas (Current): • Bioinformatics • Data Warehousing • Multimedia Analysis, Retrieval and Security • Scientific and Information Visualization • Virtual Reality (specialises in) • Visual Analytics • Visualization

5. Professional Associations • Georgia Institute of Technology • Georgia Tech Research Institute • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) • University of North Carolina at Charlotte

6. Subject Areas (Published) • Database Applications • Spatial Databases And Gis • Multimedia Information Systems • Artificial, Augmented, And Virtual Realities • User Interfaces • Evaluation/Methodology • Graphical User Interfaces (Gui) • User-Centered Design • Vision And Scene Understanding • 3d/Stereo Scene Analysis • Perceptual Reasoning • Distributed Artificial Intelligence • Intelligent Agents • Learning • Concept Learning • Picture/Image Generation • Graphics Utilities • Virtual Device Interfaces • Computational Geometry And Object Modeling • Geometric Algorithms, Languages, And Systems • Methodology And Techniques • Interaction Techniques • Three-Dimensional Graphics And Realism • Animation • Virtual Reality • Types Of Simulation • Visual • Physical Sciences And Engineering • Earth And Atmospheric Sciences • Arts And Humanities • Architecture • Electronic Commerce • Security

7. Publications • Publication years: 1992 – 2009 • Recent work for 2010 • "An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge Management," Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky, and Shen-en Chen. To be published, Eurographics/IEEE EuroVis 2010. • Dr. Ribarsky has published over 130 scholarly papers, proceedings, book chapters, and books • 63 publications of which are under ACM literature • Only three published solo

8. Publications - Titles • Varied in style • Some very ambiguous • “Instant architecture” • Others rather concise • “Integrating multi-modal content analysis and hyperbolic visualization for large-scale news video retrieval and exploration” • Titles all very professional

9. Publications by Year (ACM)

10. Publications by Year

11. Publishers • ACM • ACM Press/Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. • Canadian Information Processing Society • Elsevier Science Inc. • Eurographics Association • Georgia Institute of Technology • IEEE Computer Society • IEEE Computer Society Press • IEEE Educational Activities Department • Kluwer Academic Publishers • McGraw-Hill, Inc. • Palgrave Macmillan • Pergamon Press, Inc. • Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

12. Content • Majority of publications based around visualisation techniques • Expands into applications, human interaction, analytics, general interaction • Work constantly being retouched and further developed, providing foundations for future work • E.g. Virtual GIS [1995] – looked at possibility of using GIS for emergency situations and in army research, developing from 2D to 3D in interactive worlds

13. Citations • Citations vary in amounts • Some cases of 6 citations, other cases of 33 citations • Majority of citations scholarly publications • Minimal website references • Not uncommon in IT fields to see web references • Keeps current with latest work and advancements in technology • Citations generally within a year or two, or further building on an older idea

14. Collaborative Colleagues • Fred Alyea • Eric L Baker • Stephen A Benton • Jay David Bolter • Bob Brown • Steve T Bryson • Grigore C Burdea • Thomas Butkiewicz • Remco Chang • Remco Chang • Min Si Chen • AlirezaDarvish • Douglass Davis • Wenwen Dou • David Scott Ebert • John CronanEble • Greg Stephen Eisenhauer • Marcus Ewert • Jianping Fan • Jianping Fan • Nickolas Faust • Richard Feldmann • Brian D Fisher • YuliiGao • Mohammad Ghoniem • Milton William Green • Tera Marie Green • Tera Marie Green • WeizhenGu • Hans Hagen • Reid Harmon • Sean Ho • Larry Franklin Hodges • Aubrey Holland • Daniel Hubball • C E Hubbard • Justin Jang • Yves Darly Jean • Dong Hyun Jeong • Frank Jiang • T Y Jiang • Jing Yang • Eunjung Kang • Jochen Katz • Daniel F Keefe • Daniel Kern • Thomas Kindler • David R Koller • Robert Kosara • David Michael Krum • Robert S Laramee • Alvin Lee • Seok Won Won Lee • Bastian Leibe • Ming C Lin • Peter Lindstrom • Heather Richter Lipford • Dingxiang Liu • DongningLuo • HangzaiLuo • Kwan Liu Liu Ma • Rob Melby • SougataMukherjea • Terry Myerson • KayvanNajarian • OlugbengaOmoteso • Augusto Op den Bosch • Walter Patterson • Randy F Pausch • D A Philbin • Nancy S Pollard • Anita Raja • Elke A Rundensteiner • Shin IchiIchi Satoh • Eric Sauda • GerikScheuermann • Karsten S Schwan • A Fleming Seay • Christopher David Shaw • Francois X Sillion • Deborah E Silver • Bradley A Singletary • Stuart Smith • Victoria Spaulding • Thad Eugene Starner • FelesiaStukes • AgusSudjianto • Evan A Suma • Lloyd A Treinish • Greg A Turner • Neff Walker • Xiaoyu Wang • Xiaoyu Wang • Matthew Oliver Ward • Zachary Justin Wartell • Tony Wasilewski • Benjamin Allen Watson • Justin Weeks • Ginette Wessel • Michael Wimmer • Peter Wonka • Peter Woytiuk • Jing Yang • Jing Yang • Jing Yang • Yang Chen • JiaYue • Caroline Ziemkiewicz • Robert van Liere • Ron van Teylingen • Charles A P G van der Mast

15. Rural-Urban • Urban • Requires ready access to equipment and research • Charlotte Visualization Center • Majority of research completed with colleagues • Same subject areas, research may be repeated with same colleagues • Larry Hodges – 13 publications (Virtual Reality/3D 1993-2003) • RemcoChang – 13 publications (Visual Analytics 2009-2006) • Nickolas Faust – 9 publications (Virtual Reality/3D 1995-2003) • Work done in United States

16. Applied-Theoretical • Applied • Minimal theory work • Rather than talking about ‘concept’, actually talks about ‘implementation’ • Various applications are created then tested • Virtual Reality • Immersive Environments • Visual Analysis • 3D Geographical Information Systems

17. Paradigm • Positivist • Epistemology-representational • Taking reality and representing it in symbolic form • Visualisation systems • 3D immersive environments • Virtual Reality

18. Communication • Papers made available online and published in journals • Online papers, of 63 on ACM, only 20 available for download • Requires login • All IEEE papers on www.ieee.org required membership privileges • Delivers multiple seminars a year

19. Current Activity • Working on further publications • "An Interactive Visual Analytics System for Bridge Management," Xiaoyu Wang, Wenwen Dou, Remco Chang, William Ribarsky, and Shen-en Chen. To be published, Eurographics/IEEE EuroVis2010 • Recently gave presentation at The Fourth Annual DHS University Network Summit • 10-12th March, 2010 • Dr. Ribarsky is the Bank of America Endowed Chair in Information Technology at UNC Charlotte (refer back to Background)

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