Meeting Agenda

Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Bechtel Conference Center in Encina Hall, Stanford University

Noon & 1PM Transportation from Sheraton Hotel to Bechtel Conference Center
[Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel, 625 El Camino Real, Palo Alto, California 94301, Phone: (650) 328-2800]
Noon-1:30pm Registration
1:30pm-2:00pm Welcome & Opening Remarks Mark Goodwin, PNNL: VAC Consortium Director
Jim Thomas, PNNL: NVAC Director
2:00pm-3:00pm Keynote Address
The Interplay of Content Analysis and Visualization for Improving Search and Text Mining

To date, visualization has been at most mildly successful at improving our understanding of large text collections and search results. In this talk, I will attempt to dissect why this is the case, and discuss the importance of content analysis as a precursor for and a partner with information visualization.

Dr. Marti Hearst, UC Berkeley School of Information bio
Marti Hearst's Presentation
3:00pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-4:30pm Computer-Aided Rhetorical Design: Decomposing Composition

Visual analytic artifacts require decomposition and recomposition to become effective rhetorical devices for presentation, production, and dissemination. There currently exist no technologies for naturally composing visually rich presentations even though we may know some of the methods of communicating through visual language. This talk will explore the use of computational tools to support effective analytic composition.

Nancy Chinchor, CIA bio
Nancy Chinchor's Presentation
4:30pm-5:30pm Early Warning for Disease Prediction: Fact or Fiction? Richard Weller, PNNL bio
Dick Weller's Presentation
5:30pm Transportation to Sheraton
6:30pm-9:00pm

Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Bechtel Conference Center in Encina Hall, Stanford University

7:15am Transportation from Sheraton to Bechtel Conference Center
7:30am-8:00am
8:00am-8:30am Good Morning RemarksMark Goodwin, PNNL: VAC Consortium Director
Kris Cook, PNNL: RVAC Director
8:30am-9:00am Analytical Reasoning with Complex InformationStanford University
Barbara Tversky's Presentation
9:00am-9:30am Artificial Analytic Reasoning System University of North Carolina at Charlotte/Georgia Institute of Technology
Bill Ribarsky's Presentation
9:30am-10:00am Break
10:00am-10:30am Knowledge-Enabled Visual AnalyticsPennsylvania State University
10:30am-11:00am Distributed Cognition in the Pacific RimUniversity of Washington
Tom Furness' Presentation
Augmented Reality QuickTime clip (Videoconferencing)
Augmented Reality QuickTime clip (Magic Book)
11:00am-11:30am Break
11:30am-Noon Visual Analytics for Emergency Management and Response, Healthcare Monitoring and Management, and Information Analysis.Purdue Universityy
David Ebert's Presentation
Noon-1:00pm
1:00pm-3:00pm Curing Analytic Pathologies: The Roles for Visualization and Advanced Analytic MethodsJeffrey R. Cooper, SAIC bio
Jeff Cooper's Presentation
3:00pm-3:30pm Break
3:30pm-5:00pm Industry Panel: “Accelerating Visual Analytics R&D to Mission Impact”

Based on their extensive experience with solutions and integration, panelists will explore factors the Visual Analytics community should heed across the R&D and commercialization pipeline to achieve the objective of rapid mission impact. After introduction of key themes by the panelist, a number of deployed Visual Analytical commercial components will be presented in fast-pace idea “pitches.” The panelist will subsequently use these examples and their experiences to highlight well-understood lessons, plausible theories, and wide-open questions about time to mission impact.

Ramana Rao, Inxight (Moderator) bio
Aris Pappas, Senior Director, Microsoft bio
Troy Pearsall, VP Technology, In-Q-Tel bio
John Voeller, CTO, Black and Veatch bio
5:00pm-5:30pm Closing Remarks Jim Thomas & Mark Goodwin
5:30pm-6:30pm Hors d'oeuvres reception Hosted by Pat Hanrahan of Stanford University
6:30pm Transportation to Sheraton Hotel