{"64473":{"#nid":"64473","#data":{"type":"event","title":"FODAVA DLS Seminar Speaker","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EProfessor Pat Hanrahan\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Semiology of Graphics and Interactive Data Analysis: The Impact of Jacques Bertin on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 1967 after years of experience as a cartographer, Jacques Bertin wrote a monumental book, the Semiology of Graphics, that describes a theory of graphical representations.\u0026nbsp; In another book, Graphics and Graphic Information Processing, he described interative techniques for data analysis.\u0026nbsp; These books have been very influential in the information visualization and visual analytics communities, despite being poorly understood.\u0026nbsp; In memory of Bertin (1918-2010), I will review some of his major ideas, and describe how they have impacted the design of analysis and visualization systems such as Jock MacKinlay\u0027s Automatic Presentation System (APT) and Chris Stolte\u0027s Polaris\/Tableau system.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPat Hanrahan is the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where he teaches computer graphics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHis current research involves visualization, image synthesis, virtual worlds, and graphics systems and architectures.\u0026nbsp; Before joining Stanford he was a faculty member at Princeton.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPat has also worked at Pixar where he developed developed volume rendering software and was the chief architect of the RenderMan(TM) Interface - a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high quality rendering programs.\u0026nbsp; In addition to PIXAR, he has founded two companies, Tableau and PeakStream, and served on the technical advisory boards of NVIDIA, Exluna, Neoptica, VSee and Procedural.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Hanrahan has received three university teaching awards.\u0026nbsp; He has received two Academy Awards for Science and Technology, the Spirit of America Creativity Award, the SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics Achievement Award, the SIGGRAPH Stephen A. Coons Award, and the IEEE Visualization Career Award.\u0026nbsp; He was recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo receive future announcements, please sign up to the cse-seminar email list:\u003Ca title=\u0022https:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u0022 href=\u0022https:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E https:\/\/mailman.cc.gatech.edu\/mailman\/listinfo\/cse-seminar\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Pat Hanrahan: The Semiology of Graphics and Interactive Data Analysis: The Impact of Jacques Bertin on Information Visualization and Visual Analytics"}],"uid":"27439","created_gmt":"2011-02-23 11:17:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:18","author":"Lometa Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2011-02-25T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2011-02-25T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2011-02-25T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2011-02-25 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2011-02-25 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2011-02-25 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1217","name":"Digital Lounge - Digital Life"},{"id":"1220","name":"Digital Lounge"},{"id":"37041","name":"Computational Science and Engineering"},{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50877","name":"School of Computational Science and Engineering"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"5270","name":"FODAVA"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Haesun Park\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:hpark@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehpark@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}