From: rasure@sherman.eece.unm.edu (John Rasure)
Subject: Khoros Workshop at Visualization 92 Conference
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 23:18:23 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Followup-To: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu



If you want to attend, here is what you should do.  E-Mail 
khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu that you plan on attending the workshop. 
In the message, give an indication of what you would like to learn by 
attending.  The fee listed below must be paid at the conference, they are 
not allowing pre-payment of workshop fees, and we are responsible for
giving the Conference administrators a list of attendees.

IMPORTANT NOTE:  The Visualization 92 Conference Announcement that you might
of seen posted or printed does not properly explain the procedure for 
attending the Khoros workshop.  It is open for any one that wants to attend.  
Also, I am looking for one more presentation - especially in the 
collaboration area.  The proper procedure for attending the Khoros 
Workshop is below ....

John Rasure




		KHOROS WORKSHOP @ VISUALIZATION 92
		     Tuesday, October 20, 1992
		     Boston Park Plaza Hotel
		       Boston Massachusetts
		Cost $50.00  (Workshop Registration)

The purpose of the workshop is to disseminate as much information as
possible to the visualization community about Khoros from those that
use Khoros. There is growing interest in and use of Khoros for
visualization because: 1) it is an open system and 2) it is a software
environment that is appropriate for many visualization disciplines. A
workshop attendee will take away a basic understanding of what Khoros
is, what the future of Khoros holds, and how the community is using it.

The workshop will have four components: 1) introductory remarks and
overview of the presentations, 2) presentations from the user
community, 3) Khoros toolkits and internals, and 4) open discussions in
the morning and afternoon.


8:30 - Introductory Remarks and Workshop Overview
------------------------------------------

	John Rasure, the Khoros Project Director, will present the
	workshop schedule and discuss any necessary administrative
	details.

8:50 - User Community Presentations
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	Pascal Adam,
		French Atomic Commission (CEA),
		"Khoros as the High Level Programming Language for the 
		SIMD Image Accelerator SYMPATI2"

	Patrick Arnoul,
		Esprit (CEA),
		"Automatic Road Tracking for Autonomous Mobile Robot"

9:50 to 10:00  Morning Break
------------------------------------------

10:00 - User Community Presentations
------------------------------------------

	Pat Kelly,
		Los Alamos National Laboratory,
		"Manipulating Remotely-Sensed Data With Khoros"

	Bill Butler, 
		Beth Israel Hospital,
		"Optical Sectioning Microscopy and the Restoration
		of Fluorescence Microscopy Images"

	Stefan Herr,
		European Molecular Biology Laboratory,
		"An image acquisition and processing system for biological
		applications using a cooled slow scan CCD camera developed in
		the Khoros Software Environment"


11:30 Open Discussion
------------------------------------------

	This open discussion period will focus on the morning presentations
	The presenters will act as a panel.

12:00 - 1:00 Lunch
------------------------------------------

1:00 - User Community Presentations
------------------------------------------

	Roberto Lotufo,
		University of Campinas,
		"Extending the Khoros System to Support 3D Imaging in
		Biomedical Computing"

	Chuck Hansen, 
		Los Alamos National Laboratory, 
		"Comparison of Data Models"

	Wes Bethel, 
		Lawrence Berkeley laboratory, 
		"Geometry and 3D Visualization in Khoros"

2:30 Open Discussion
------------------------------------------

	This open discussion period will focus on the afternoon presentations.
	The presenters will act as a panel.

3:00 to 3:15  Afternoon Break
------------------------------------------

3:15 Khoros 2.0 Toolkits and Internals
------------------------------------------

	Khoros 2.0 is planned for release in mid 1993, these
	presentations will describe implementation details of the new
	system. There will be three, 20 minute presentations given by
	the Khoros Group on the following topics:

	Mark Young,
		"Heterogeneous Distributed Computing"

	Danielle Argiro,
		"X Applications and Visualization Toolkit"

	Tom Sauer,
		"Toolbox Building to Extend Khoros"

Closing Remarks and Continued Open Discussion
------------------------------------------


For more Information, contact:  Khoros Group
				Department of EECE
				University of New Mexico
				Albuquerque NM, 87131

				phone: 	505-277-6563
				fax: 	505-277-1439
				e-mail: khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu


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From: hunter@ocfmail.ocf.llnl.gov (Carol Hunter)
To: rasure@nell.eece.unm.edu
Subject: workshop text & reg

Carol Hunter, VIS92 Program Co-Chair, prepared the following modified 
Announcement. 

Unfortunately, the Khoros Workshop is a very different entity than the rest
of the workshops.  This makes it difficult to write up a generic method 
of registering, getting admitted, etc.

The Reg Desk should be able to handle walk-ins for your workshop, so that
anyone who is interested can still register on site.
========================================================================
                            VIS92 Workshops
========================================================================
                             

Workshops listed below are now being organized. Please reach the 
workshop organizer listed below to indicate your interest in 
participation. Participants for Workshops 1,2, and 3 are expected to
prepare a short paper that outlines their research and provide data to
be shared by colleagues in this field. Participation in Workshops 1,2, and 3
is limited and participants are selected by the workshop organizer.
Workshop 4 is open to anyone who wishes to register; the presenters have
already been selected. Workshop 4 attendees are expected to contact the
workshop organizer to indicate their interest in attending.
The workshops will be scheduled on Monday and Tuesday. 
There will be a $50 fee for each workshop per day. 
Please pay the fee on-site to participate in the workshop at 
Visualization '92.

            Monday Workshops            Tuesday Workshops
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     | #2 Automated Design of     |              / #1 Education in|
     |    Visualization           |              / Scientific Vis.|
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     |     #3 Multi Variate,      |    #4: Khoros Users'          |
     | Multi-Dim. Visualization   |        Workshop               |
     --------------------------------------------------------------

Workshop 1 Tuesday P.M. (half day):
	An Agenda for Education in Scientific Visualization
        ---------------------------------------------------
Organizer/Contact:
	Gitta Domik, Ph.D. University of Colorado
	domik@wilkinson.cs.colorado.edu
    	Phone: (303) 492-4062

Workshop Topics: 
- What are the core topics to include in the teaching of visualization?
- What are the essential reference articles for this course?
- Is there public domain software and data for this course?
- Can we create/collect data for classic models of visualization?


Workshop 2 Monday (one day):
           Automated Design of Visualizations
           ----------------------------------
Organizer/Contacts:
	Hikmet Senay, The George Washington University
	senay@seas.gwu.edu
        Phone: (202) 994-5910

	Philip K. Robertson, CSIRO Divison of Information Technology
	phil@csis.dit.csiro.au

Workshop Topics:
- Establish a conceptual foundation for automation
- Investigate alternative models for automating visualization
- Identify and model knowledge needed for visualization
- Discuss how types of knowledge can be utilized with alternative models


Workshop 3  Monday (one day):
          Putting Together a Multivariate, Multidimensional 
          Visualization (mDv) System
          -------------------------------------------------
Organizer/contact:
	Jeff Beddow, Hennepin County
	beddow@epx.cis.umn.edu
	Phone: (612) 348-3105

Workshop Topics:
- Effectiveness of design choices 
- Elements of graphical perception and representation strategies
- Defining the application task as mDv
- Criteria for successful display
- Criteria for successful integration of mDv with application


Workshop 4 Tuesday (one day):
             Khoros User's Workshop
             ----------------------
Organizer/contact:
        Khoros Users Group
	khoros-request@chama.eece.unm.edu
        Phone:(505) 277-6563
	Fax:  (505) 277-1413

Workshop Topics:
- Extending the Khoros system to include 3D geometry and data visualization
- Khoros as a collaboration technology
- Application Building and the Software Development Environment
- Distributed Computing
- The Khoros Data Model
- Research projects completed or in progress using Khoros
- Commercial applications built using Khoros
- Comparison of Khoros to other systems
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Dr. John Rasure                    rasure@chama.eece.unm.edu
Khoros Project Director
University of New Mexico           Albuquerque,    NM 87131