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QuantumVIZ: Social Networks, Planetary
Visualization & Dynamic InfoScapes - 2D, 3D, N-D"
Where: McBean Theatre, Exploratorium, San
Francisco (directions) When:
Monday June 10, 6pm to 10pm
By
Private Invitation (OUR HOUSE IS FULL & WE
HAVE ADDED A SECOND SCREEN FOR THE MAIN SCREEN PRESENTATIONS. DOORS OPEN
FOR THE MCBEAN AT 5:30 AND MCBEAN THEATRE CLOSES PROMPTLY AT 6PM. PLEASE
ARRIVE ON TIME - LATE ARRIVALS WILL VIEW MAIN PRESENTATIONS FOR PROGRAM 1
ON THE SECOND SCREEN. devarco@cruzio.com)
The World Wide Web
is continually evolving into its next form. This meeting and series of
presentations will introduce many of the leaders in the next generation of
web-based information visualization technologies to each other and will
offer a full-screen visual feast of what is possible in dynamic
information landscapes in 2D, 3D and more. Presentations will include
agent driven information technologies, dynamic social network
technologies, computational modeling and the newest generation of tools
for geospatial visualization, collaborative visualization and
telepresence.
Overview
| Program
1| Reception &
Teleschmooze Open Multiscreen
Session | Program 2 |
Howard Bloom
Tele-Address Closing by Jim
Herriot
The Challenge – We are rapidly entering a time
unprecedented in history. We are collectively being challenged to meet
this period of accelerated globalization and communication with new
solutions, well suited to the latest generation of information
technologies. The distributed evolution of the World Wide Web and today’s
growth of both broadband and wireless technologies have presented us with
both opportunities and landmines. This is a time in which a critical mass
of visionaries and vision must match the technologies that have been
deployed since the Internet was in its infancy.
This event is
a response to the need for us to collectively assess and develop a new
breed of network tools, information ecologies, and predictive tools for
deployment through the WWW. These tools will enable us to:
EVENT SCHEDULE:
6-6:15pm Welcome &
Opening
WARMING UP
FOR A CREATIVE EPIPHANY, OR JUST BEFORE THE SUN COMES OUT Jim Herriot
PhD, http://www.herriot.com/ & http://www.biosgroup.com/ Time was
when the King of Productivity ruled the land. We complied. Even computers
complied. But times have changed. Game over. History has grandly rounded a
corner. Now Creativity in Her greater majesty enlightens our fertile land.
Computers are happy. Lowly data processors have become artists' easels. We
humans co-create with these eager dry-ware partners daily. And now we're
invited live our lives imaginatively in those spacious moments of "just
BEFORE" the next Creative Epiphany. Appropriately, this talk will come
just before a the visual feast of the evening, a quantum leap in
envisioning, QuantumVIZ.
6:15-7pm Collaborative
Knowledge Mapping & Agent-based Info VIZ
MAPPING
DYNAMIC SOCIAL NETWORKS Valdis Krebs (remote) and Jan Hauser http://www.orgnet.com Valdis
Krebs will discuss via voice, his pioneering work in dynamic social
networks, including organizational networks, computer network and
terrorist networks. How are they are similar, and how they are different?
Where are they are strong, and where they are weak?
OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE & EMERGENT COLLABORATION:
DYNAMIC DATAVIZ William Moulton, Navagent & Surf3D http://www.navagent.com/products/gallery/animation Moulton will
discuss the challenge of using visualization tools to correlate a
constellation of connectivity between the realworld networks
(location-based geographic topologies), knowledge networks (analytical or
data-based conceptual topologies) and social engagement networks (human
process and collaboration-based associations).
ZIGZAG SOFTWARE: Quantum Hyperspace &
MorphableND Ted Nelson, Founder, Project Xanadu (the original
hypertext project) http://xanadu.com/ Computers are born
free, yet everywhere they are in chains. Able to represent any imaginable
construct, the computer has instead been lowered to simulating hierarchy
and paper (today's interfaces and applications). Zzstructure (trademarked
in the USA as ZigZag®) is a system of constructs designed as building
blocks for a new computer world-- without files, hierarchy or
applications, but far easier to use-- offering simple exploration, casual
database, and far easier programmability. ZigZag software is also intended
for both discrete and continuous high-power visualizations-- allowing
multidimensional morphing of both individual objects and the viewing space
(MorphableND™).
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7-8:00 pm Wine & Hors d'oeuvres
Reception
TELESCHMOOZING WITH SURPRISE GUESTS & AVATARS
FROM AROUND THE WORLD.... Video Conferencing, 3D Worlds and more.
Bruce will show work being done by DigitalSpace for USRA/RIACS and
NASA to model a "day in the life on Mars" where activities aboard a
human Mars lander are recreated in 3D space. http://www.atmospherians.com/
Bruce Damer
HITACHI AIRSHO http://www.hitachi.com/lcd/air_sho/index.html
All Teleschmoozing will be seen on the big screen and on the
Hitachi AirSho Display System, a unique and eye-catching leading edge
display technology. Consisting of a high-lumen Hitachi LCD projector
and a micro-thin screen, the AirSho Display System is able to
transform virtually any transparent surface into a vibrant holographic
display.
MARS LANDER COLLABORATORY - The Web
Interface for Telescience (WITS) has been developed by NASA to enable
scientists to participate in Mars lander and rover missions from their
home institutions. WITS provides downlink data visualization and
uplink sequence generation. Distributed collaboration enables groups
of geographically distributed users to collaboratively view downlink
data and collaboratively generate uplink sequences. Paul Backes
(remote link from Southern California).
Special LIVE VoiceLink with James Burke, of
CONNECTIONS James Burke
and his Knowledge Web project, pushes the study of history to the
leading edge of science, technology, information visualization and
representation. The Knowledge Web Project is creating a networked
learning tool to bring history alive for K12 students in the US and
eventually around the world. In his many books and innovative award
winning television series, Burke, the well-known historian of
innovation, has developed a unique approach to making the stories of
history vivid by illuminating the serendipitous nature of connections
in the history of science and invention. He will take a few moments to
introduce the QVIZ attendees to the exciting potential of the
"Knowledge Web." His California partner, Professor Patrick McKercher,
will continue the discussion and demonstration of this volunteer
collaboration across the continents.
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7 - 8:00pm Multi-screen
Open Session - Simulation and Collaboration
Note - All main screen presentations will continue on their
own screen during the multi-screen sessions
SIMULATION & COLLABORATION IN MULTI-USER 3D
Adobe Atmosphere: Michael Kaplan , Adobe, Inc. & Bruce
Damer DigitalSpace http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/ Bruce
Damer of DigitalSpace and Michael Kaplan of Adobe will take turns
touring attendees through the fantastic worlds of Adobe's new
Atmosphere multi user 3D platform. Converse with other people from
around the world dressed in their "avatars" and walking through
digital landscapes. Michael Heim will join Bruce from Southern
California to show his work with "quantum avatars," and discuss the
feng shui of virtual space. Highlights from the 2001 Avatars
Cyberconference, an all-online event that has been called "the Burning
Man of bits" will be toured and its story told (see http://www.ccon.org/).
JOURNEYING THROUGH HISTORY - THE JAMES BURKE KNOWLEDGE
WEB PROJECT Patrick McKercher http://www.k-web.org/ The
Knowlege Web is an international grassroots effort working with James
Burke to realize his vision of making the sort of pinball trips
through history he popularized in his Connections books and television
series available on the WWW. Moreover, users will be able to create
and share their own journeys, as well a contribute their own content.
Not only will users be able to fly through time and space, but they
will be able to enter immersive virtual reality spaces to interact
with historical figures and objects with other peole all over the
world in realtime.
PERCEPTUALIZATION &
DISTRIBUTED MEDICAL INTELLIGENCE Dave Warner MD PhD http://www.medibolt.com/ Warner
will demonstrate a new approach to multi-sensory experiences of
information that allow faster and more comprehensive decision making
over large medical and biological datasets.
MUSE - ELEVATING THE HUMAN-COMPUTER
EXPERIENCE Jonathan Lindo, Muse Communications http://members.cruzio.com/~devarco/qviz/www.musecorp.com Muse
is a next-generation visualization and networking software
architecture. Software Architect, Jonathan Lindo will demonstrate a
brand new comprehensive client/server technology that combines the
sensory impact of television with the interactive and networking
capabilities of the Internet. This broadband multi-user3D platform
displays pictures, movies, music, live webpages and more in a 3D space
to share with other users online.
spaceshipEARTH & EarthSCOPE Joshua Arnow
www.spaceshipearth.org/ Buckminster
Fuller coined the term Spaceship Earth almost 50 years ago to help us
see our world as a magnificent life-sustaining system, requiring the
cooperation of the entire crew - everyone on Earth - in order to
thrive. Joshua Arnow, president of the Buckminster Fuller Institute,
will present spaceshipEARTH®, a web based initiative currently in
development. spaceshipEARTH will provide comprehensive design science
education, networking tools and action resources that focus on the
most urgent design challenge humans have ever faced - equitably
meeting the needs of all humanity without undermining the ecological
integrity of Earth's natural systems. The EARTHscope will be the main
feature of the demonstration. EARTHscope is a brand new new tool
designed to help people grasp the critical choices that will shape
humanity's future, by displaying interactive and animated data about
the state of the Earth and our possible futures.
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8:00 - 8:10 pm A Word from our Hosts at
the Exploratorium
INTERNET2
IN 2002 Ron Hipschman http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Doug Conaway,
Director of Resource Development Exploratorium Center for Media and
Communication Ron Hipschman and Doug Conaway will say a few
words about the Exploratorium's 2002 live webcast programming that
includes the solar eclipse webcast of June 10. He will also announce
the Exploratorium's plans for unveiling and implementing
Internet2.
8:10 - 9:15 pm
Global Sustainability, Planetary Visualization
& Information Ecologies
GEOMATRIX – GEOSPATIAL VISUALIZATION
TOOLKIT Paul Hansen, Chuck Stein Geofusion http://www.geofusion.com/ Hansen will
demonstrate the broad-ranging capabilities of GeoFusion, Inc.'s
GeoMatrix digital earth software system, which allows virtually
unlimited amounts of image, terrain, and other data to be organized
and efficiently delivered to a computer graphics screen for
interactive viewing. The software is architected as a development
toolkit which any software team can use as a basis for special-purpose
applications. The scope of operation is inherently global (spherical)
and effectively manages and coordinates local areas of differing data
types and resolutions. Ultimately, the GeoMatrix system is a way for
distributed, geo-referenced (3D) data to be combined over the
Internet.
MANYONE - UNIVERSAL DASHBOARD Jim Fournier, Joe
Firmage http://www.manyone.net/ ManyOne
is a new not-for-profit distributed portal architecture partnering
with NGO’s in support of the Earth Charter. A large client-side cache
allows rich 3D graphics over 28.8, enabling a new navigation dashboard
based on a scientifically rigorous iconic taxonomy. An open software
pool may allow developers to offer extensible software components to
the membership, and then receive revenue in proportion to how much
each is used.
TELEPRESENCE COLLABORATORIES: A STATE-OF-THE-ART
PARADIGM FOR SHARING RESOURCES FOR RESEARCH &
EDUCATION Nestor J. Zaluzec, Argonne National Laboratory http://tpm.amc.anl.gov/ Scientific User
Facilities have traditionally been instrument-driven resources, in
which are located state-of-the-art technologies used to characterize
materials and their structure, ranging from macroscopic to atomic
dimensions. While this has been a fruitful process, the next
generation of research and educational centers will be science driven
and will seek to meld a combination of multidisciplinary approaches to
creating and exploring the exotic behavior of new classes of
materials, chemical and biological processes, or to study the
fundamental building blocks of nature. To accomplish this task, it
will be necessary not only to put together the brick, mortar and
instruments, which will house the tools for synthesis, fabrication,
characterization, and modeling of such systems, but also to
revolutionize the way researchers, educators and students interact and
share their knowledge across multidisciplinary boundaries. One
approach in achieving this end is the collaboratory concept. To
accelerate the manner in which new technology is introduced into
mainstream science, one must provide a mechanism by which
technological advances are practically and rapidly put into use. The
TelePresence Collaboratories established at ANL for Microscopy ( ANL
TPM - http://tpm.amc.anl.gov/)
and Earthquake Engineering (NEESGrid- http://neestpm.mcs.anl.gov/)
are examples of these attempts.
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INTERACTIVE SATELLITE GLOBE FROM WORLDFX! Todd
Ulrich http://www.realworldfx.com/ or
http://www.worldsat.ca/ This
5' inflatable Earth replica manufactured by Cincinnati-based Worldfx,
Inc. was assembled using a 1km/pixel satellite image provided by
WorldSat International of Mississauga, Ontario. WorldSat International
compiled hundreds of individual scenes from NOAA's polar-orbiting,
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) to complete this
beautiful mosaic. The globe provides heretofore unknown perspectives
on our planet and demonstrates the interconnected nature of all
things. Earth's bio-regions and underwater topography are clearly
depicted in this model which is a symbolic milestone in the history of
humankind's steady progression towards viewing and understanding the
Earth as a whole. (ongoing exhibit in the main entry
hall)
9:15 – 10:00pm "A
Wish List For Digitopia" - Tele-Address by Howard Bloom
Howard Bloom is
the acclaimed author of Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from
the Big Bang to the 21st Century and The Lucifer Principle.
"Howard Bloom…may just be the new Stephen
Hawking, only he's not interested in science alone; he's interested in the
soul." Aaron Hicklin, Gear Magazine
"I have met God, and he lives in Brooklyn.
…Howard Bloom is next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes
Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Freud, and Buckminster Fuller…he is going to
change the way we see ourselves and everything around us." Richard
Metzger, creative director, The Disinformation Company, host of Channel
Four TV Britain's Disinfo Nation.
"Readers will be mesmerized by the mirror Bloom
holds to the human condition, and dumbfounded by the fusillade of eclectic
data that arrives with the swiftness and intensity of a furious tennis
volley. His style is effortless, engaging, witty and brisk.... He draws on
a dozen years of research into a jungle of scholarly fields...and
meticulously supports every bit of information...." Washington Post
Bloom is a Visiting Scholar--New York University Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; member: New York Academy of
Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American
Psychological Society, Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and
Evolution Society, International Society of Human Ethology; founding board
member: Epic of Evolution Society; advisory board member:
Youthactivism.org; executive editor -- New Paradigm book series. http://www.howardbloom.net/
10:00 - 10:15 pm Into the Dream,
Reawakening to QuantumVIZ 2
Jim Herriot PhD, http://www.herriot.com/ & http://www.biosgroup.com/
Laptops are closed. Projectors are put away. But something is
different now. Mere keyboards and screens have morphed into tableaus of
human creativity. As we walk out into the night air, perhaps Buckminster
Fuller's voice will call out to us: Time to map out new geodesics of our
imaginations. Time to dream new Dreams. This is not a closing, but an
opening -- an invitation to invent, to build, to take ever bolder
quantum jumps in visualization, and to reawaken together soon to the
bright screens of QuantumVIZ 2.
QuantumVIZ is dedicated to the spirit and vision
of the Leonardo da Vinci of the 20th century -
R.
Buckminster Fuller
QuantumVIZ Event
Organizers John Graham Bonnie DeVarco
Planning Committee Bonnie
DeVarco John Graham Bill Daul Jim Herriot Claudia Welss Jim
Fournier Al Lundell Sun McNamee Bruce Damer Bill
Moulton Steve Wolff Mark Hager Chris
Lucey
Exploratorium
Principals Robert Semper Larry Shaw Doug Conaway Ron
Hipschman
Volunteers and Tech
Support Jake Bowman Leslie
Greenleaf Amy Hoffman Kevin Honeywell Chris Lucey Celestine
Star Chad Rooney Glen Grillo Rob Miller David Robert Diana
R. Trimble
Reception, QVIZ
Tech & Graphics Sponsors Pat Flanagan, Flantech http://www.flantech.com/ Joshua
Arnow, spaceshipEARTH http://www.spaceshipearth.com/
Bobby Jaber, Porcelainia - Virtual Metaphors of Geometric Proportion
http://www.porcelainia.com/ Studio
Creatif (France Telecom) http://www.rd.francetelecom.fr/studio-creatif/ MUSE
Corporation http://www.musecorp.com/ Virtual
World Studio http://www.virtualworldstudio.com/ Steve
Young, The Forever Young Foundation. http://www.foreveryoung.org/
PlaNetwork http://www.planetworkers.org/
Contact Consortium http://www.ccon.org/ Vlearn3D
www.vlearn3d.org Munday & Collins http://www.mundayandcollins.com/ Sharp Electronics Glen
Grillo, Arcane Realities http://www.arcanerealities.com/
Bonnie & Tony DeVarco John Graham Claudia Welss Jim
Herriot
Special Thanks to the Exploratorium, San Francisco QuantumVIZ is a project of PlaNetwork, a
California 501 (c)3
Contributing
Organizations
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