The Electronic Visualization Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago has long since been a mainstay at the front-edge of comptuer graphics and visualization research.  Maxine Brown, associate directory of the lab, sat down with the editors of Medill Reports to talk about their facility.

Our middle name is visualization. The lab’s been around for 36 years, and we’ve always specialized in real-time, interactive computer graphics. Back in 1992, we got interested in not only developing the algorithms to make pretty pictures, but in moving these pictures, in real time, from point A to point B. So, we started getting involved in networking, which is why we today do networked visualization and collaboration today.

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