NCSA’s eDream Institute partners with Design for America to award a scholarship to a UIUC undergrad for an essay on human-centered design thinking.
Tag: Visualization
NCSA Wins Multiple Awards During SC20
NCSA and our partner institutions were honored to take home awards during the annual Supercomputing Conference (SC20), spanning from Agriculture to Visualization and many domains in between.
NCSA’s Donna J. Cox Honored With Rare IPS Technology Innovation Award
This is just the eighth time since the society’s founding in 1958 that this honor has been bestowed.
NCSA’s Stuart Levy Wins Chancellor’s Academic Professional Excellence Award
Levy, a Senior Research Programmer in NCSA’s Advanced Visualization Lab, received a campuswide honor for his decades of service and groundbreaking work in the realm of scientific visualization.
‘History Was Here’: NCSA’s Technology is Helping Unlock the Mystery of Medieval Graffiti
NCSA is helping scholars reach back in time to understand medieval history through graffiti.
Behind the Scenes of ‘Hubble 3D’
Narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, this documentary film takes viewers through distant galaxies as it tells the story of the repair and upgrade of the Hubble telescope.
3D Volumetric Rendering of Mummy
The University of Illinois’ World Heritage Museum received a donated Egyptian mummy in 1989. An interdisciplinary team, including NCSA, then worked to better understand the mummification process and to determine the mummy’s age, sex, medical history, and cause of death.
Thunderstorm Visualization Debuts at SIGGRAPH
The visualizations of thunderstorms that an NCSA team built in 1989 were not only palatable, they were beautiful and hugely informative. The animation of a thunderstorm as it forms debuted at SIGGRAPH, the international visualization conference.