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February 9, 2012
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The University of Illinois Silicon Valley Round Table cordially invites you to a reception and symposium featuring Vice President and Chancellor Phyllis Wise and speakers Donna Cox, Jerry Fiddler and Gene Robinson. Join us for an inspiring evening highlighting Illinois' leadership in interdisciplinary education.
Thursday, February 9, 2012 Four Seasons Silicon Valley RSVP by February 2, 2012 Participants will include: Phyllis M. Wise Vice President, University of Illinois, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Donna J. Cox Michael Aiken Chair, Director Illinois eDream Institute, Director of the Advanced Visualization Lab, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Professor, School of Art and Design Donna Cox will present a variety of interdisciplinary collaborations that cross the boundaries of art-science and provide stunning examples of an emergent field. She will also describe outcomes from the Illinois Innovation Summit and emerging academic models that involve collaborative interdisciplinary research and student-centric, project-based education. The goal of these new approaches is to address global challenges through academic transformation. Jerry L. Fiddler CEO and Chairman, Wind River, Principal and CEO, Zygote Ventures, Chairman, Solazyme Higher education should afford students with an opportunity to explore problems that require an interdisciplinary approach to their solutions. Clearly universities must train physicists, doctors, farmers, etc. but we must also develop skills to understand the world in new ways. Some students should be enabled to organize their education around compelling problems, rather than strictly around existing disciplines. Jerry will describe his educational journey and the ways in which he shaped his experiences while on the campus to meet his unique interests and acquired skills to address important problems through both science and the humanities. Gene E. Robinson Swanlund Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Entomology and Neuroscience, Interim Director, Institute for Genomic Biology Society’s most compelling challenges and transformative advances in energy, food, health and the environment will increasingly involve the life sciences. The centrality of biological knowledge in all facets of modern life requires that every citizen become “bio-literate.” Gene will discuss how Illinois can distinguish itself and lead the nation as a public university with a novel mandated bio-literacy program for all undergraduates, featuring courses that weave biological information into the fabric of diverse disciplines and drawing upon the activities of new interdisciplinary campus research institutes. |
February 6, 2012
"The Art of Scientific Data Visualization for Public Outreach”
Hurricane Katrina
Donna Cox will present eDream and the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL) collaborative scientific visualization projects for public outreach and education. She will provide an overview that includes visualizations for museum shows, IMAX films, and television. These shows include collaborations with the California Academy of Science, IMAX corporation, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (“The Great Flood”) and work in progress on “Dynamic Earth” at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.
She will focus on the ‘making of’ Hubble 3D IMAX movie where she and her team worked with the IMAX Director, Toni Myers (Blue Planet, Destiny in Space) to develop and choreograph the virtual flights through awesome Hubble data. The IMAX film is narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and was released April 2010. It has been translated into more than 14 languages and shown to more than three million people world-wide and won the Giant Screen awards for best film, best cinematography, and best life-long learning.
http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/News/10/0317NCSAvisualizations.html
February 3, 2012
"The MusiVerse Makers: Dreams of Aesthetic Gaming"
Dr. Ben Smith formulates a trajectory through the aesthetics of interaction and gaming as embodied by the MusiVerse, an ongoing research project into the potentials for expression in virtual worlds. This original synthetic environment explores notions of presence, representation, music, and modes of control, instigating a series of projects and public performances staged over the last five years. Developments in human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and real-time animation support this inquiry which seeks to understand the unique expressive affordances of the video game.
4 p.m. in NCSA room #2103
August 20, 2011
Donna Cox gave keynote at the Illinois 4-H State Fair awards ceremony for the Illinois 4H-Film Festival and Map Gallery. This event hosted by the 4-H SET (Science, Engineering, and Technology) Division, University of Illinois Extension Office and Dr. Lisa bouillion Diaz.
Jury included organizers of the Illinois Route 66 Film Festival
April 28, 2011
Dr. Donna Cox gives keynote to the Women in Computer Science annual banquet.
The WCS Annual Awards Banquet is an opportunity to celebrate the accomplishments of Women in Computer Science.
eDream director Donna Cox will give the keynote.
https://agora.cs.illinois.edu/display/wcs/Annual+Banquet
March 31, 2011
Siebel Scholars will be treated to a private viewing of Hubble 3D inside the Navy Pier IMAX theater.
Dr. Donna Cox―Director of the Advanced Scientific Visualization Laboratory at UIUC; Director or Visualization and Experimental Technologies at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); and Director, edream (Illinois Emerging Digital Research and Education in Arts Media Institute)―will provide an overview of the technical details behind the making of Hubble 3D.
March 30, 2011
Greenovation as focus: new Illinois opportunities with Informatics PhD and interdisciplinary Centers Greenovations Summit
Recently, the University of Illinois established a new interdisciplinary Informatics PhD that enables students and faculty to design research that can cross the boundaries of art and science https://www.informatics.illinois.edu/display/infophd/Home. This forum presents this new PhD and other research opportunities at the Center for Transformative Climate Solutions and the Illinois Sustainability Technology Center.
Guy Garnett's Illinois Informatics PhD overview
Don Wuebbles' Challenges in Interdisciplinary Research and Education: Climate and Sustainability
William Bullock's Greening Electronics: Interdisciplinary Education & Research
Workshop Agenda 3-30-11
Workshop Attendee list
December 14 2010
Robert Patterson & Donna Cox, CineGrid Workshop, “Scientific Visualization: domes, large-format, 3D”.
December 8 2010
Donna Cox to give the keynote at Cyber Infrastructure Days at Purdue University.
October 27 2010
Donna Cox to serve on a panel on fulldome scientific visualization at IMERSA (Denver, CO: Oct. 26-29).
September 14-15 2010
Donna Cox participated in a summit between NEA and NSF exploring possibilities for shared funding for cross disciplinary research collaborations in Art and Science (Washington DC).
July 25-29 2010
Donna Cox particpated in a SIGGRAPH panel on Grand Challenges in Education (Los Angeles), organized by Leonardo head Roger Malina. The panel took up the conversation started in HASTAC founders and leaders David Theo Goldberg and Cathy Davidson's Macarthur Foundation-funded report The Future of Learning Institutions in a Digital Age (MIT Press, 2009).
June 21-23 2010
Donna Cox was just one of 120 participants in the National Science Foundation's Broader Impacts for Research and Discovery Summit, held in Washington DC. The summit produce a new set of review guidlines that will impact Computer Information Science & Engineering (CISE) awards.
April 13 2010
The creative team behind Astral Convertible, including John Toenjes of Dance and Alex Betts of the Advanced Visualization Laboratory, presented their work at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts Tech Summit. As Toenjes writes, the performance was "reconstructed, reinspired, reinvented."
April 10-11 2010
Mary Pietrowicz presented two papers on behalf of the Cultural Computing Group and IACAT at CHI 2010 (Atlanta, GA). "Multimodal Gestural Interaction in Performance," co-authored with Robert E. McGrath, Guy Garnett, and John Toenjes, was presented to the Whole Body Interfaces Workshop. "A Framework for Enabling Multimodal Gesture Interaction," co-authored with Robert E. McGrath and Guy Garnett, was presented to the Natural User Interfaces Workshop.
April 1 and April 10 2010
eDream Director Donna Cox presented at two TEDx events held on the University of Illinois campus: TEDxUIllinois and TEDxUIUC. TEDx events are licensed local spinoffs of the international TED phenomenon, which promotes "big ideas worth sharing."
January 2010
Kelly Searsmith, Ph.D., presented "assembly required: transformative arts projects from the trash heap of civilization" at the Pecha Kucha CU @ The Canopy Club. The presentation argued for the utopian potential for digital arts media projects to reconnect and rehumanize, theorizing specific approaches by which they do so and giving examples drawn from the last decade to the present. Over 400 people attended.
September 2009
Bob McGrath Ph.D., of NCSA, and Mary Pietrowicz M.S., of IACAT, presented mWORLDS, a research project headed by Roy Campbell Ph.D. and Guy Garnett D.M.A., at SLACTIONS 2009: Research Conference in the Second Life World: "Life, Imagination, and Work Using Metaverse Platforms." The presentation served as an opportunity to talk through and test technologies that could be used to support the all-virtual HASTAC 2010, which will be led by ICHASS, in April of next year.