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Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for Science A One-Day Workshop Hosted Jointly by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information and Microsoft Corporation. February 8, 2011 Redmond, Washington (Microsoft Campus) NREL Attendees: Rob Finger, Mary Donahue. Sponsors.
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Multimedia and Visualization Innovations for ScienceA One-Day Workshop Hosted Jointly by the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information and Microsoft Corporation February 8, 2011Redmond, Washington (Microsoft Campus) NREL Attendees: Rob Finger, Mary Donahue
Sponsors • ICSTI, the International Council for Scientific and Technical Information • offers a unique forum for interaction between organizations that create, disseminate and use scientific and technical information. ICSTI’s mission cuts across scientific and technical disciplines, as well as international borders, to give member organizations the benefit of a truly global community • Microsoft Research • dedicated to conducting both basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering. Researchers focus on more than 55 areas of computing and collaborate with leading academic, government and industry researchers to advance the state of the art. • 800 researchers • http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/ • For ICSTI Workshop presentations • Search on author of presentation • Narrow results to videos
Workshop Schedule • Opening Remarks/Welcome --- Roberta Shaffer (Library of Congress), President, ICSTI; Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft • Session 1: An emphasis on interactive multimedia and visualization • Explaining Complex 3D Objects with Interactive Illustrations, Wilmot Li, Adobe Systems • Delivering Interactive 3D Molecular Structure – The Jmol Solution, Robert M. Hanson, St. Olaf College • Interactive Multimedia Scientific Publishing, Michael Ackerman, National Library of Medicine • Session 2: Tools and technologies for communication and problem solving • Telling Stories in the Cloud, Curtis Wong, Microsoft Research • Communications from the Particle Frontier, Tim Smith, CERN • Video Analytics and its Application to Science and Technology, Peter Tu, GE Global Research • Session 3: Accelerating discovery through multimedia and visualization • The Impact of Visualization on Search and Discovery, Rafael Sidi, Elsevier • ScienceCinema: Multimedia Search and Retrieval in the Sciences, Behrooz Chitsaz, Microsoft Research, and Lorrie Apple Johnson, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information • Speech Processing Applications in Quaero (European Multimedia Search Engine), Sebastian Stueker, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology • Session 4: Combining and refining data to reach new discovery • Semantics for Innovation in Visualization and Multimedia: Smarter Information Science, Peter Fox, Tetherless World Constellation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • PivotViewer: A Living Infographic for Your Data, Jennifer Lin, Microsoft Corporation • Visualization and Indexing of Ecological/Biological Data, Jeff Falgout, U.S. Geological Survey, National Biological Information Infrastructure