LEADERS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES

VIRGINIA TECH RESEARCH CENTER - ARLINGTON 900 N. Glebe Road Arlington, VA 22203 Dr. Ben st Shneiderman Tuesday, February 21 Professor, Computer 4:00 - 5:30 PM Science and Director, nd Human Computer Ballston Room (2 Floor)

Interaction Laboratory, University of Maryland Reception & Book Signing Member, National Academy Immediately Following of Engineering

Author, “Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL” for Knowledge Discovery

Hosted by The central theme of Dr. Shneiderman’s presentation is the integration of statistics with visualization as applied Dr. Yue “Joseph” Wang to temporal event sequences such as electronic health Computational records and social network data, and will review the Bioinformatics and Bio- many growing commercial success stories. Laboratory, Virginia Tech Interactive information visualization tools provide researchers with remarkable capabilities to support discovery. These telescopes for high-dimensional data combine powerful statistical methods with user- Seating is Limited! controlled interfaces. Users can begin with an over- view, zoom in on areas of interest, filter out unwanted Please RSVP by January 31st to items, and then click for details-on-demand. With careful design and efficient algorithms, the dynamic

[email protected] queries approach to data exploration can provide 100msec updates even for million-item visualizations that can represent billion-record databases. About the speaker:

Ben Shneiderman is a Professor in the Department of , founding Director (1983-2000) of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, and a member of the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was elected as a Fellow of the Association for Computing (ACM) in 1997 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2001. He received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2001. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Sponsored by: Office of the President Office of the Vice President Virginia Tech National Capital Region