Over the last couple of decades, the world of computer graphics has been growing at an amazing rate.  From animated movies to video games, consumers have reaped the benefits of these technological advances.  One of the latest algorithmic advances in [See the full post…]

Scientific visualization (SciVis) is a process of representing raw scientific data as images, which helps scientists improve their interpretations of large data sets. More and more, advanced visualization tools are becoming an integral part of a researcher’s analysis toolkit; and [See the full post…]

Scientific visualization (SciVis) is providing new insights in health care and many other research areas in ways that we couldn’t imagine a decade ago. It’s an evolving field where extracting visualizations from very large data sets can improve analysis, diagnosis [See the full post…]

We explore the critical role of visualization and visual analytics in disaster management and medical research with Paul Navrátil, Director of Visualization at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), and Jim Jeffers, Sr. Principal Engineer and Sr. Director of Advanced [See the full post…]

Intel Chip Chat – Network Insights audio podcast with Allyson Klein: CGI and ray tracing advances have revolutionized the creation and animation of imagery based on 3D models, leading to tremendous opportunities for filmmakers, architects, and designers. For ongoing [See the full post…]

Intel CTO Justin Rattner’s candid preview of events at this week’s Intel Developer Forum included an overview of the presentations on Intel’s Penryn and Nehalem processors, and recent progress toward 32 nanometer chip production (and Intel’s efforts to keep up [See the full post…]