VAC Meeting 2011 Agenda
University of Maryland, Inn and Conference Center
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
(Presentations are linked in the agenda, and can also be downloaded from the File Browser.)| 7:30am | Registration Opens | |
| 7:30am-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30am-8:40am | Welcome & Opening Remarks Kris Cook, Visual Analytics Community (VAC) Consortium Director Richard May, National Visualization and Analytics Center (NVAC) Director | |
| 8:40am-9:40am | Highlighted Speaker: Problem Solving with Visual Analytics Alan Turner, US Government This talk will examine composite processes for problem solving in visual analytics, and consider research challenges for enabling powerful analytic capabilities that minimize the cognitive load on the analyst. | |
| 9:40am-10:25am | Invited Speaker: Putting Innovation into Operation Greg Jones, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute Moving innovative research out of the laboratory can be done in many ways, each posing its own challenges and opportunities. Greg M. Jones, Associate Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at the University of Utah, will discuss his observations on making the leap, drawing on his diverse experiences as a CEO of a start-up company and Director of the University of Utah’s Software Development Center. | |
| 10:25am-10:45am | Break | |
| 10:45am-11:30am |
Case Study: High-Impact Collaborative Analysis at Boeing
Roger Nicholson, Boeing Aviation Safety
Andrew Wade, Simon Fraser University
Boeing aviation safety and design engineers face an ever-increasing quantity and variety of safety-related data, from incident reports to maintenance and reliability data. Additional data paint a more comprehensive picture of safety-related events, but analyzing records and identifying particularly important events and trends has become extremely resource and time-consuming. As part of the ongoing collaboration between Boeing and Simon Fraser University/University of British Columbia, Andrew Wade, an MSc. student from SFU, and Roger Nicholson, Associate Technical Fellow at Boeing, applied Visual Analytic tools and techniques to aviation safety at Boeing. The results of their work influenced design changes on a number of aircraft as well as flight crew operations manuals. Roger and Andrew will be discussing the successes and obstacles involved with Visual Analytics at Boeing and other potential applications throughout the company. Visual Analytic tools and practitioners will become essential components of the “information DNA” of large organizations involved in complex, highly-integrated, high-technology and high-consequence mobility industries, requiring ultra safe design, maintenance and operation, with associated safety monitoring. |
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| 11:30am-Noon | Highlighted Speaker: Technology Transition Lessons Learned Sheri Brodeur, HP Labs A commercial technology company will share lessons learned in moving research from the lab to the commercial sector. | |
| Noon-1:00pm | Lunch & Networking | |
| 1:00pm-2:30pm |
Panel Discussion: Visual Analytics in Practice
It is essential to inform visual analytics research and development efforts with an understanding of the domains and contexts within which visual analytics might be used. This panel brings together experts from different application domains to identify crosscutting issues in the application of visual analytics. These issues will be discussed in greater depth in a small group working session later in the afternoon.
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| 2:30pm-3:00pm | Break | |
| Panel or Working Session: Either attend a panel on a new topic, or a working session to go in depth on a topic presented earlier in the day. Attendance at the working session is limited to 25 people. | ||
| 3:00pm-4:30pm |
Panel: Visual Analytics Commercial Success Stories
What does it take to produce a visual analytics capability that succeeds in the commercial marketplace? Panelists will discuss their experiences and share their visions for the future.
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Working Session: Visual Analytics in Practice
In this session, a working group will discuss the crosscutting issues identified in the preceding panel and develop a path forward for further work on the topic. Simon Attfield, Middlesex University, Session Leader |
| 4:30pm-6:30pm |
Poster/Demo Session and Reception
Current technologies demonstrated by the NVAC and FODAVA teams and Consortium members. |
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
| 8:00am-5:00pm | Commercial Exhibits | |
| 8:00am-8:30am | Continental Breakfast | |
| 8:30am-9:00am | Highlighted Speaker: Staging and Testing of Analytics in Real Environments Joseph Kielman, U.S. Department of Homeland Security DHS's vision for a new environment for end-users and the private sector partners to interact with analytical tools. (Presentation) | |
| 9:00am-9:30am | Highlighted Speaker: The Work of the NATO Research Technology Group on Interactive Visualisation of Dynamic Networks Margaret Varga, QinetiQ (Presentation) The NATO Group has developed a Visualisation Reference Model that provides an approach to addressing how and with what analysis and visualisation a required task can be addressed. This presentation will introduce the NATO Group and report some of its research work. | |
| 9:30am-10:30am |
Panel Discussion: Multimedia Analytics Research Challenges
Many current visual analytics solutions are targeted at text or structured data. Often, however, analysis also requires exploration and understanding of audio, video, and imagery, either individually or in conjunction with other data types. In this panel, we will hear from government program managers who are addressing aspects of this multimedia analytics challenge.
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| 10:30am-11:00am | Break | |
| 11:00am-Noon |
Panel Discussion: Visual Analytics for Cyber Security
Cyber security represents a large area of opportunity for visual analytics research and application. This panel will consider the state of visual analytics in support of cyber security and discuss the opportunities on the horizon for increasing the impact of visual analytics to support increased awareness, faster response, and greater security.
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| Noon-1:00pm |
Lunch & Networking
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| 1:00pm-2:15pm |
Panel: Visual Analytics at Scale
Today’s visual analytics tools focus generally on larger volumes of static data than humans can understand without the use of analytic tools. However, they do not typically scale to streaming data or deal successfully with the hundreds of thousands of data points, let alone millions or billions of items. Scale changes the way we must think about data, but it creates enormous opportunities to approach problems in fundamentally new ways. This panel will present perspectives on the challenges and opportunities inherent in the analysis of orders-of-magnitude larger data volumes.
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Panel: Multimedia Analytics
In this session, a group will explore the following topics: (1) How does one provide useful information about a large multimedia database to a human user? (2) How should the user experience of human users enter into the derivation, design, development, and evaluation of algorithms for multimedia analytics? (3) Is it possible to design multimedia analytic challenges that adequately measure the presentation of information to human users? (4) How does your research impact a discussion of the future of multimedia analytics?
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| 2:15pm-2:30pm | Highlighted Speaker: UCASS Fred Roberts, Rutgers University There is often a perceived conflict between freedom of economic activity and the need for increased security. Are the goals of enhanced economic activity and increased security necessarily in conflict? That is the question underlying a new study, the Urban Commerce and Security Study (UCASS), sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security University Programs and involving a unique partnership of three DHS university centers of excellence. (Presentation) | |
| 2:30pm-2:45pm | Break | |
| 2:45pm-4:00pm |
Panel: Research with Impact
How can you tell that your research will be on target for your eventual users? How can you create a cadre of excited, committed users? Panelists will discuss techniques for creating a great partnership between researchers and users to create solutions that work.
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Panel: Multimedia Analytics
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| 4:00pm-4:45pm | Capstone Speaker: Integrating Analytics into Business Intelligence Dave Wells Business Intelligence (BI) in many companies fails to realize its promise. Most BI programs focus on data integration, business metrics, and performance management. The term “analytics” is often misunderstood and is used interchangeably with measurement and metrics. A 2009 Computerworld survey found that more than 60% of respondents correlated business analytics with query, reporting, and dashboard tools. Little has changes since that survey two years past, but much needs to change. Effective BI needs real analytics to move beyond publishing to analysis and insight, to get from retrospective metrics to forecasting and foresight, and to move BI out of the IT-backroom and onto business managers’ desktops. The competencies, processes, and tools of the analytics community are the right stuff to take BI to the next level. (Presentation) | |
| 4:45pm-5:00pm | Closing Remarks Richard May, NVAC Director | |