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National and Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers

asbayla — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 16:18:53 +0000

The static (currently) map above shows placemarks for the National and Regional Visualization and Analytical Centers. This will be expanded in the future to provide a view of identified research and universities with programs in Visual Analytics.

Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community WebSite

asbayla — Wed, 26 May 2010 16:57:30 +0000

The Integrated Visualization and Analytics Community Web Site or iVAC provides updated news, events, wiki, documents, and a blog section for Visual Analytics. (Also see The National Visualization and Analytics Center NVAC website). The site is apparently newly created with minimal entries for the wiki, blog, or publication community sharing. However, the news ribbon reports some current projects and research of interest, in particular a report on a secure mashup framework for dynamic integration and analysis.

Visual Analytics Visualization & Graphics Community Web Page

asbayla — Sun, 23 May 2010 15:14:48 +0000

The IEEE Visualization & Graphics Community Web Page is a non-cost way to monitor events, papers, and articles in Visual Analytics. Information on Vis, InfoVis, VAST, VR, 3DUI (2008 and 2009) are availabe online . Although not as complete as the conference proceedings, it is possible to garner technology trends, identification of current research topics, and news.

There are also some data sets available for exploration.

Open Geospatial Consortium

asbayla — Tue, 18 May 2010 18:15:10 +0000

If you are interested in open standards in the geospatial community, the following site should be added to your link repository:

http://www.opengeospatial.org/

You can download the OpenGIS standards which abstract many attributes, properties and concepts of geospatial, sensor, and GIS ‘XML’ formats at:

http://schemas.opengis.net/

Viewing the available demonstrations introduces you to a number of abstract concepts such as the RPC Sensor Model. For example:

http://www.opengeospatial.org/resource/demos

Interoperability among GIS systems is a major objective of the OpenGIS. The ERDAS Apollo product illustrates the utility of the use of OpenGIS standards.

Co-working, Gaming Theory, Ubiquitous Computing, Robots

asbayla — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:55:49 +0000

A recently penned blog at (Co-working)has conceptual relationships with the futuristic use of game design and game theory for real world and life (Avant Game). Jane Evelyn McGonigal’s articles and academic publications on experimental game design reminds me of the Star Trek Borg and has relationships to a new book Wired for War, where a 19-year old high school drop outperforms Air Force Trained pilots in the manipulation of military robots.

I remember being fascinated with MIT’s Ubiquitous Computing PBS episodes way back when(?) and I longed to be at MIT wearing computers in my shoes, coat, and a heads up display in my glasses. At that time I wanted to do a PhD thesis on designing an uber-development machine where an individual programmer could control multiple computers using all of ones anatomical digits (hand and foot), eye control, thought, and speech modalities. How many simultaneous projects and languages could cognitively be processed in parallel? Could anyone become the ‘Iron Man Pragmatic Programmer’?

The formal relationships between co-working, gaming, ubiquitous computing, and robots and other concepts is alive and evolving.

Spring Integration / Grails

asbayla — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:50:53 +0000

Were you not able to attend the Spring One Conference held in December? Here is the agenda both you and I missed:

http://americas.springone.com/conference/hollywood/2008/12/schedule.html

One technique that I use to garner trends for a conference I did not attend is to iterate over the agenda, search for the presenter’s name and blog and attempt to infer the general content of the presentation. It would be great if the No Fluff No Stuff folks would make the presentations available for some appropriate fee.

One area that I was interested in was the Spring Integration presentations and the use of Grails with the Spring Framework. I found a blog entry for a simple example at http://blog.springsource.com/2008/12/11/spring-integration-in-grails-part-1/ by Russ Miles. I worked through this example and except for IDE configuration and upgrading to grails-1.0.4 issues, the program worked well as documented. Also see (SOA4Real)

I also noticed a podcast of interest on the recent acquistion of G2One by Spring Source: http://media1.roadkast.com/hansamann/grails_podcast_episode_72.mp3. This podcast details the current and forecasted evolution of Grails in relation to the Spring Framework. Of the many attactive features – the OSGIafication of Grails plugins seems particularly adaptive. Also, this podcast provides an excellent contrast between Grails and Spring.