Microsoft, GE Ink 300,000-Seat Office 365 Contract

General Electric will rely on Microsoft's globe-spanning cloud to bring productivity and collaboration services to its massive workforce. Read more »

Microsoft Reportedly Buys Cloud Security Firm Adallom for $320 Million

The company snaps up the cloud security and risk management specialist in a deal that ranks as its biggest Israeli acquisition, according to reports. Read more »

Vector Field Visualization of Advective-Diffusive Flows

We propose a framework for unified visualization of advective and diffusive concentration fluxes, which play a key role in many phenomena like, e.g. Marangoni convection and microscopic mixing. The main idea is... Read more »

Uncovering Representative Groups in Multidimensional Projections

Multidimensional projection-based visualization methods typically rely on clustering and attribute selection mechanisms to enable visual analysis of multidimensional data. Clustering is often employed to group similar instances according to their distance in... Read more »

Efficient Local Histogram Searching via Bitmap Indexing

Representing features by local histograms is a proven technique in several volume analysis and visualization applications including feature tracking and transfer function design. The efficiency of these applications, however, is hampered by... Read more »

Detangler: Visual Analytics for Multiplex Networks

A multiplex network has links of different types, allowing it to express many overlapping types of relationships. A core task in network analysis is to evaluate and understand group cohesion; that is,... Read more »

Perfopticon: Visual Query Analysis for Distributed Databases

Distributed database performance is often unpredictable due to issues such as system complexity, network congestion, or imbalanced data distribution. These issues are difficult for users to assess in part due to the... Read more »

An Evaluation of the Impact of Visual Embellishments in Bar Charts

As data visualization becomes further intertwined with the field of graphic design and information graphics, small graphical alterations are made to many common chart formats. Despite the growing prevalence of these embellishments,... Read more »

Visual Analytics for the Exploration of Tumor Tissue Characterization

Tumors are heterogeneous tissues consisting of multiple regions with distinct characteristics. Characterization of these intra-tumor regions can improve patient diagnosis and enable a better targeted treatment. Ideally, tissue characterization could be performed... Read more »

Rule-Enhanced Transfer Function Generation for Medical Volume Visualization

In volume visualization, transfer functions are used to classify the volumetric data and assign optical properties to the voxels. In general, transfer functions are generated in a transfer function space, which is... Read more »