An overview of the new Beckman Imaging Technology Group (ITG) will be presented. This group is a result of a reorganization of the Beckman Institute Visualization Facilities into a more rational structure. The primary mission of the ITG will be to ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources available t ... [more]

This presentation will serve as an introduction to atomic force microscopy (AFM). The Digital Instruments Multimode AFM, available in the Beckman Institute's microscopy suite, is capable of performing a variety of functions. It can perform a wide ... [more]

Analyze _AVW1.1 is a comprehensive, interactive package for multidimensional image visualization, processing, and analysis. Developed by the Mayo Clinic's Biomedical Imaging Resource group, Analyze _AVWworks par ... [more]

Director is Macromedia's versatile multimedia authoring software that is ideal for creating web sites, kiosks, entertainment and educational CD-ROMS, simulations, visualizations and interactive presentations. It utilizes its own scripting language ... [more]

This lecture will discuss the development and future of JavaScope, a Java based client facilitating semi-automated remote transmission electron microscopy. JavaScope utilizes the Internet to allow researchers to take control of the ITG's Transmiss ... [more]

The ITG is extremely well equipped with equipment and facilities for advanced light microscopic applications. Steve will describe the techniques available to users of the facility including confocal and conventional light microscopy, optical trapp ... [more]

The Microscopy suite in the Beckman Institute is an extremely well-equipped environment for sample preparation and their visualization on electron-microscopic level. This presentation covers the description of the available instruments and equipme ... [more]

Topographical and intensity images, such as those taken from an AFM or NSOM typically code height or some other parameter as a grayscale or color value in a digital image. These images can then be used as-is, or converted to 3D surfaces when appro ... [more]

By using the various functions available from the Informix Dynamic Server, a new paradigm for image manipulation and management has come of age. This extensible technology allows organized storage of images and the processing data used to create/d ... [more]

Chickscopeis a project to study chicken embryo development using a variety of educational resources, such as inquiry-based curriculum materials, interactive modules on egg mathematics, im ... [more]

The Imaging Technology Group is developing a system for automated identification of specimens and acquisition of high resolution images for 3D macromolecular electron microscopy. Our objective is to develop an intelligent microscope for the electr ... [more]

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful tool for imaging sample Topography with sub-angstrom vertical resolution. In recent years, AFM Technology has expanded considerably. Imaging capabilities now include Magnetic and electric force microscop ... [more]

Network and computer security has become a critical issue for researchers. Universities encourage an "open computing environment" for research and collaboration. With the resent upsurge in break-in attempts on campus, there is an increasing need t ... [more]

Materials characterization requires the gamut of experimental techniques available in the Microscopy Suite and Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory. This lecture will present step by step methodologies for structure determination and materi ... [more]

Magnetic resonance imaging is a modality that combines an established role in clinical diagnosis with a vigorous expansion in academic research. In medicine, routine anatomical scanning can detect gross pathologies such as tumors, chart the progre ... [more]

The Leginon automated TEM system identifies targets in a low magnification image and then centers the targets to acquire high magnification images. The current method of centering targets is inaccurate and necessitates an additional time consuming ... [more]

The Integrated Support laboratory (ISL) is under development as a facility to provide a hardware and software integration framework for multi-modal interface development and controlled experimentation. Research in the ISL, building upon work of th ... [more]

Applications programming in the technical paradise of the Beckman/NCSA virtual environment, and even with wholly overqualified and tirelessly dedicated collaborators, still is a challenging experience. A nano-length introduction will be followe ... [more]

Near field optical microscopy is a method of optically imaging surfaces on a nanometer scale. Background of the near field optical interactions at surfaces will be presented along with the capabilities of the instrumentation that is currently pres ... [more]

Beckman Institute System Services is pleased to announce a new poster printing service based upon the Tektronix Phaser 600 solid ink wide-format printer. The printer's features will be presented along with details of how to print to it from the Be ... [more]

Crumbs is a CAVE program which volume renders regularly sampled data, such as MRI, CAT, confocal, light microscopy, or computer simulations. Development of Crumbs began in 1994 and has continued since that date. Crumbs is an unusual VR application ... [more]

The VMIL's MicroScribe is a 3D digitizer that allows you to generate models of physical objects by touching the object's surface features with a stylus. It can digitize objects on the order of a few millimeters to a meter and larger in size with a ... [more]

Liz is the assistant to Sheree Kirby who is responsible for the development and growth of the TCL program, which is a business incubation facility that houses an entrepreneurial program that also supports business assistance services. The TCL serv ... [more]

Pulsed force mode microscopy (PFM) is a new mode of atomic force microscopy that allows the effects of adhesion and stiffness to be separated and recorded simultaneously with topography. It combines the advantages of the speed of contact mode with ... [more]

The basics of what is an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope (ESEM), how does it compare/contrast to a conventional SEM, and how it can be used will be the focus of this forum. A brief introduction to the technology will be a preface to an ... [more]

Versatile stereolithography (SLA) technology is used for rapid concept modeling and can deliver finished prototypes with extreme accuracy and Robustness. A SLA-250 rapid prototyping machine is located on campus and can be used to produce a variety ... [more]

Harry will be talking about the High Performance Storage System, popularly known as HPSS. HPSS is software for managing very large data archives and for transferring data at high data rates within a hierarchy of disks and tapes. HPSS was developed ... [more]

It is a rare case nowadays that qualitative or descriptional data are so obvious that they can "prove" experimental biological findings. Instead more and more often quantitative analysis of changes in cells/tissue is required. The Microscopy Suite ... [more]

Optical tweezers are a very useful tool for cell manipulation. They are non-invasive, do not damage cells, and are quite easy to use. This talk will focus on the background of optical tweezers, the theory of operation of the optical tweezers, and ... [more]

The Visualization Toolkit, is a set of libraries containing a wide array of algorithms from the fields of 3D Graphics and Image Processing. The focus on Object Oriented design makes this toolkit easy to use and integrate into powerful 3D graphics ... [more]

Bugscope is a new educational project in the World Wide Laboratory at the Beckman Institute. Participating classrooms have the opportunity to control an Environmental Scanning Electron Microscope to image insects at high magnification. Students an ... [more]

This lecture will delve into the importance of having proper etiquette on the elevators while teaching you the skills necessary to function in an appropriate manner on these elevators and those found in the outside world. The special guest speaker ... [more]

Our story begins in the distant geologic past, the pages of which lie deep beneath the intersection of Wright Street and University Avenue. It is a story of volcanism, subsidence, shallow seas, swamps, uplifts, and massive ice sheets. The first hu ... [more]

Using two-photon excitation, the volume explored by the laser beam can be made extremely small, below a fL. In this volume, given the normal concentration of fluorophores found in biological preparation, the number of fluorescent molecules is smal ... [more]

This talk will discuss the increased importance of intellectual capital in the formation and development of a technology-based, start-up company. I will focus on various legal and corporate issues regarding patent protection and their relationship ... [more]

irma (Interactive Remote Microscopy Application) is a new software system for web-based remote control of a Philips XL30 ESEM-FEG. irma consists of three primary applications, the irma|ESEM Image Observer, the irma|ESEM Scope Controller, and irma| ... [more]

Researchers in the Neuronal Patterns Analysis group at Beckman Institute are working with Janet Sinn-Hanlon of the Imaging Technologies Group to reconstruct a digital 3-D atlas of the rabbit brain from serial histology sections. The 3-D digital at ... [more]

A feature of the new environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) that we have not emphasized to date is its capability for performing elemental analysis using energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). EDS (also called EDX, or EDXA, for energy-di ... [more]

Much current knowledge about brain function is based on analyses of the firing patterns of neurons. This field is experiencing an explosion of data. Huge data sets are being amassed with new computer-based data acquisition systems and techniques f ... [more]

Molecular microscopy is one of the most important structural approaches in cell biological investigations and can provide insight into complex biological questions that no other technique can provide. Currently, the technique typically requires th ... [more]

There is a great deal of emphasis on the quantitation of cells/targets in biological research today. This need for numerical representation of experimental effects is limited by the labor intensive procedures required to achieve these numbers. The ... [more]

This forum is also available as Technical Report 99-011 available here.

We have developed a method to improve the accuracy for absolute relocation of a target specimen using the goniometer on a Philips transmission electron microscope. We have achieved this by characterizing the performance of the Philips compustage, ... [more]

The Integrated Systems Laboratory (ISL) is a concept which grew out of the ARL Federated Labs project. The idea is to have a research facility for integrating newly developed technology to create a full application. Human studies can then be perfo ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH '99. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation...features a broad, international sele ... [more]

A collection mode near field scanning optical microscope was used to detect surface plasmons on thin gold films patterned with phthalocyanine. The intensity of the surface plasmons was modified by the addition of a self-assembled monolayer. These ... [more]

This forum will delve into the history of flatbed scanners. Allen will discuss the differences between XY Zoom technology and XY stitch. He will also explain how Scitex scanners differ from one another and why you should use the Scitex Eversmar ... [more]

Several pieces of auxiliary equipment have been added to the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM) since its installation in January of this year. Some of them, such as the insect rotating device ('bug-on-a-spit'), were fabricated here ... [more]

Bruce Johns will discuss the current approaches to high-resolution projector design with emphasis on the digital micromirror device (DMD) used in Digital Projection's ultra-high brightness (12000 ANSI lumens), high-resolution (1600x1200), Emmy ... [more]

This discussion will address some of the issues our group had porting Unix code to an NT system. Topics will include sockets, serial ports, system logging, byte order problems, as well as a few other inconsistencies between operating systems, and ... [more]

In the investigation of structural and cellular differences between groups, you often have to tell if one group is different than another by more quantitative methods than just "eyeballing" it. The subtle alterations between groups are often only ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources avail ... [more]

Identification and classification of objects based on their 2D images is of an interest for many applications ranging from microscopic cells Characterization to military target recognition. Often such identification is based on the analysis of the ... [more]

The Atomic Force Microscope is being used in an increasing number of applications to study polymer materials. Using tapping mode AFM, one can go beyond high resolution surface profiling to study local properties, sample composition and underlying ... [more]

The formal attempts at representing, in fine-granularity detail, the full-text of journal articles, books, technical reports, etc. have involved the use of SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML provides a standard markup mechanism to e ... [more]

Cluster-based parallel computing offers a cost effective means of achieving high performance on many compute intensive programs used in science. There are many issues to consider when designing a cluster for high performance scientific computation ... [more]

Microstructural and stress evolution during drying of tape-cast layers derived from binary (Al2O3-Latex) colloidal suspensions were studied. Representative tapes were partially dried, quenched, and the remaining solvent extracted via sublimation t ... [more]

The Hexapod Project is a multidisciplinary research effort being conducted here at the Beckman Institute. It involves the development of a six-legged robot modeled after the skeletal and muscular structure of insects. Insights from insect neurobio ... [more]

In this brief presentation, I'll discuss basic issues in image acquisition and analysis of the human brain as people think. Difficulties in the collecting and processing of functional MRI data in younger and older subjects will be discussed. Diffe ... [more]

SETI@home is a scientific experiment based at the University of California-Berkeley that harnesses the power of hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected computers in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Anyone can participate by ... [more]

The IntelPlay QX3 Microscope may give school science labs an alternative to conventional microscopes. Despite its price tag of $99 it performs in some respects like the multi-thousand dollar ITG dissecting microscope. The features of the QX3 micro ... [more]

Modern and ancient microbes preserved in travertine are being genetically identified and directly linked with the terrestrial hot spring environments in which they lived using a depositional facies model incorporating aqueous and solid phases. The ... [more]

Bridget Carragher will present a brief overview of the Microscopy Suite. The Microscopy Suite houses a wide range of instruments including a number of varieties of light microscopes, scanning probe microscopes and both scanning and transmission ... [more]

Scanning electron microscopy traditionally produces two dimensional, grayscale images of the specimen at hand. While these images are often visually beautiful and highly detailed, the visual cues derived from the image can be enhanced by adding co ... [more]

This forum will include a partial review of deformable methods for automated segmentation and analysis of human brain images with an emphasis on the current research at the Beckman Institute in this area. The current research involves a deformable ... [more]

The ITG has a new piece of equipment available - the Stratasys Genisys Xs 3-Dimensional printer. This technology greatly enhances the visualization aspect of research and is a great addtition to the VMIL facility. This forum will present technical ... [more]

A small team at the UIUC College of medicine has developed an interactive web site that teaches histology (microanatomy) to medical students. Several hallmarks of the "Internet Atlas of Histology" include 1) the ability to navigate through micr ... [more]

This talk will provide an overview of the applications and the use of the Macbeth TR-1224 densitometer. The densitometer is available for use in the Visualization, Media, and Imaging Laboratory and can measure both reflection and transmission phot ... [more]

This overview describes resources and services offered by the library in support of research at Beckman. The overview explains the basics of how to find a book in the online catalog and check it out from the library. The specifics of how to reques ... [more]

The Beckman Microscopy Suite has two dedicated darkrooms available for processing film and prints. We have recently upgraded the darkrooms, adding a new print processor and a second enlarger. This forum will detail the present capabilities of the ... [more]

The Argus project aims to create a parallel computer that can capture real-time data from a number of cameras and then use those multiple views to compute 3D reconstructions of the scene. The scene is captured from an array of 64 cameras equally s ... [more]

Tunneling spectroscopy measurements of the density of states in superconductors provide insight into the mechanism of high temperature superconductivity and the nature of superconducting interfaces. High temperature superconductors are strongly ... [more]

HDF5 is a whole new version of HDF designed to support scientific data storage, sharing, and access in high performance environments. This forum will have a brief overview of the HDF format and software, describe how HDF5 is useful for storing and ... [more]

This forum will focus mainly on the problem of the landmark selection and visual based control for the navigation of a mobile robot, with an emphasis on the current research at the Beckman Institute in this area. Many approaches in visual servoing ... [more]

An effective collaboratory allows geographically-distant researchers to interact and work on their computers as though they were together. This concept is being realized in the field of structural biology by the BioCoRE project. BioCoRE recentl ... [more]

Cryoelectron microscopy has the potential to allow direct visualization of macromolecular arrangements in very large assemblies and intact cells. This talk will describe recent progress of our group's development of automated data collection techn ... [more]

One aspect of future nanotechnology might be the development of hybrid systems that merge molecular electronics with silicon IC technology. To this end we are exploring the fundamental limits of single molecule interactions with Si(100). We have m ... [more]

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Typical stereoscopic hardware installations rely on StereoGraphics "CrystalEyes" technology. Unfortunately, the hardware can cost as much as a WindowsNT workstation. This forum will evaluate some alternative, inexpensive stereoscopic solutions for ... [more]

The University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign has undertaken a research park initiative to encourage research, development and commercialization of the University's intellectual assets, and to foster economic growth. It is anticipated that the Un ... [more]

Linda Brown, will present a basic introduction on the Leica SP2 Single and Multi-Photon Confocal microscope systems. Recent innovations and a discussion on frequently asked questions will be included. Also, a brief introduction to some application ... [more]

DVD, a technology that continues to expand its user base, offers people a versatile communications medium. It can deliver high-quality audio and video, or serve as a high-capacity data backup solution. In addition to its more traditional roles, it ... [more]

Cryo electron microscopy provides a flexible tool for quantitatively visualizing biological specimens. When applied to viruses, the resulting images have been computationally combined to yield 3D reconstructions at resolutions up to 7 or 8 Angstro ... [more]

This fall, the ISL at the Beckman Institute will be building aLICE: a fully enclosed, 6-sided, 10'x10'x10' back projected virtual reality environment. Features of aLICE include rigid walls, wireless interaction devices, and imbedded camera and mic ... [more]

Beckman Institute faculty, staff and guests often have the need for a variety of presentation and conferencing technologies. In order to support these needs, a proposal was made to develop a multimedia/video conferencing 'theatre'. Although not ye ... [more]

Virtual reality often involves presenting several simultaneous graphics displays, like the right-eye/left-eye of an HMD or the four walls of a CAVE. Trying to drive all these displays from a single computer and still achieve high performance resul ... [more]

For several years we have been developing a software application, called Leginon, for the automated control and acquisition of images from a transmission electron microscope. One of the primary motivations in developing this software is to provide ... [more]

Bugscope is a second generation educational project that provides web browser based control of scientific imaging instrumentation using the Internet. The primary goal of the Bugscope project is to demonstrate that relatively low cost, sustainable ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH 2000. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year's presentation "... features a broad, international ... [more]

Ben Grosser will present a brief overview of the Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL). Topics will include the VMIL computer hardware, software and multimedia resources, how to become a user, costs of usage, and other resources avail ... [more]

Beginning in the Fall 2000 semester, we will investigate how learner comprehension of a selected food chemistry topic is affected by the form of instructional media in which the topic is depicted. Specifically, we will compare how FSHN 101 student ... [more]

The quixotic enterprise announced in the title is both frustrating and feasible. It might even be useful for opening cross-platform channels for CAVE developers not blessed with SGIs. In particular, consumer grade (but proprietary) liquid crystal ... [more]

MCID is a microscope control and image analysis package used with the fluorescence scope housed in the microscopy suite. By allowing software control automatic image tiling, image deconvolution and area counting are archived. Calibrating the compu ... [more]

The VMIL has added a new digital video camcorder to the list of video equipment. The Canon XL1 Digital Video Camcorder combines the mini DV format with the mini DV interchangeable lens system. This compact camcorder is extremely versatile, allowin ... [more]

This forum will present how to taken an AFM image and turn it into a 3D model in order to see a better representation of the AFM data using Alias Wavefront's Maya. We will explain how to produce the 3D image manually and also by using a MEL script ... [more]

Historically, Electron Microscopy has played an enormous role in defining the ultrastructure of the cell. Our mental picture of almost every cellular organelle is heavily influenced by what has been seen in using thin section EM. Over the last 25 ... [more]

Now you can create high-quality video easily and affordably. Final Cut Pro is the only software in its class that combines professional editing, compositing, and special effects capabilities in one flexible and highly productive program. By giving ... [more]

For several years we have been developing a software application,called Leginon, for the automated control and acquisition of images from a transmission electron microscope. One of the primary motivations in developing this software is to provide ... [more]

The ATAM Program is an interdisciplinary unit that conducts research and teaching in the field of archaeometry--the intersection of archaeology and art history with the natural and physical sciences. We use modern instrumental techniques to invest ... [more]

The Stereology Workstation in the Microscopy Suite at the Beckman Institute runs on two basic programs -- StereoInvestigator and Neurolucida -- that are both products of the small New England company MicroBrightfield. Both programs are well design ... [more]

AAA ATPases are small ATPases, which play central roles in various cellular activities. Despite their importance, the precise mechanism by which these motor molecules utilize nucleotide to carry out their functions is not known. We studied the nuc ... [more]

Many of Brent Collins' sculptures have interesting rotational symmetries, and saddle-shaped surfaces (like a soap film or minimal surface). His 1998 sculpture "Atomic Flower II" consists of a central disk (perhaps representing a nucleus) with thre ... [more]

The WebCT 3.1 "course management" system enables instructors to create content and manage online teaching activities, while relying only on a web browser. One of the benefits of WebCT is its flexibility, allowing instructors to choose from a wi ... [more]

Condor is a distributed computing system that allows users to distribute their workload over the network to otherwise idle computing resources. Condor allows any network user to access available processing power and memory from any other workst ... [more]

The Microscopy Suite is one of the two primary service facilities supported by the Imaging Technology Group. A wide range of imaging modalities and supporting equipment is available for the preparation, imaging and analysis of microscopic specimen ... [more]

Since carbon nanotubes were observed by S. Ijima in 1991, they have captured the attention of researchers worldwide. Because of their remarkable properties, carbon nanotubes have been proposed for use as nanowires, electronic devices, probes for s ... [more]

The VMIL has recently added hardware and software that provides the capability to produce fully-featured DVD-Video titles. This system, whose primary components are by Sonic, Inc., includes real-time MPEG-2 encoding hardware, authoring and proofin ... [more]

Advances in imaging technology are rapidly being integrated into the fields of biology and medicine. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is an emerging biomedical imaging modality based on the detection of backscattered near-infrared light from tis ... [more]

Lawrence J. Hamlin is working on developing creative working relationships with new and developing artists who have begun to establish a desirable print market. He works with painters, photographers and sculptors to bring out a publishable work of ... [more]

3D face modeling is an important component for model-based video coding, human computer interaction, entertainment and etc. Cyberscanner provides an effective solution for producing 3D object model because of the high accuracy in recovering geomet ... [more]

NCSA's Emerge project has been developing technologies to address the problems associated with the ongoing explosion of distributed, heterogeneous scientific data archives. Our point of departure is a set of proxy and broker components for buildin ... [more]

Often, in analysis of biological specimens under the Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM), the 2-dimensional images acquired provide only a partial picture of the intricate cellular morphology. This is particularly true in the case of nervous ti ... [more]

For the positioning and scanning of our Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM), it is necessary to have a piezo-electric material free of defects. It is this delicate material which provides angstrom magnitude motion of the tip assembly. A significan ... [more]

A state-of-the-art multi photon confocal microscope was installed in the Microscopy Suite of the Beckman Institute in March. The Leica Confocal has proved extremely popular with the 20 users that have been trained. This forum will cover the basics ... [more]

UIUC policies require that all research with human subjects be reviewed and approved before any involvement of participants. Federal funding agencies will also require that review occur prior to release of project funds to the investigator. Alt ... [more]

Design based stereology is the statistical methodology by which morphologic parameters of three-dimensional structures can be estimated from sequences of two-dimensional images in a precise and unbiased manner. StereoInvestigator software availabl ... [more]

Come tour the nearly completed Beckman CUBE, the next generation CAVE, using technology invented at the UIC, perfected at the UIUC, constructed by TAN in Dusseldorf Germany and sent over on a slow boat back home. We will be showing off the hardwar ... [more]

A need for a low-cost, high through-put technique for method development and optimization for liquid chromatography prompted the invention of the Profiler. Chromax Chromatography Solutions was then founded to develop and commercialize the apparatu ... [more]

For the past two years, the Imaging Technology group has been operating a remote instrument educational outreach project called Bugscope. Bugscope provides access to an environmental scanning electron microscope for K-12 classrooms. However, the d ... [more]

The LightScribe 3D is a scanner that generates high-quality fully-textured 3D models of physical objects. The scanner uses a video camera along with a frame grabber card to capture texture data while wireframe data is acquired using a hand held la ... [more]

This talk will cover the design and implementation of two novel cameras developed in the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory. The Omnicam systems produce images with a wide field of view and are able to capture all objects in focus regardless ... [more]

Thermosetting polymers, used in a wide variety of applications ranging from microelectronics to composite airplane wings, are susceptible to damage in the form of cracking. Often these cracks form deep within the structure where detection is diffi ... [more]

Cryo-electron microscopy is becoming an increasingly powerful tool for solving the structure of protein complexes and has the potential to address problems that cannot be solved using other methods. The field however suffers from several major dis ... [more]

A plethora of physiological processes inside of a single cell result in the generation of mechanical forces responsible for the development of many fundamental events such as cell division and migration, neuronal process growth, exocytosis and end ... [more]

Since the foundation for the three-dimensional image reconstruction of helical objects from electron micrographs was laid more than 30 years ago, there have been sustained developments in specimen preparation, data acquisition, image analysis, and ... [more]

We are attempting to create a new class of cell-like objects by modifying pH-sensitive hydrogels at the surface with lipid layers. However, the characterization of the assembled lipid layers is extremely difficult since the 3-dimensional hydrogel ... [more]

In order to decrease the amount of time involved in Cryo-TEM, automation techniques can be used to remove human interaction. Using a robot to prepare the specimen and insert it into the microscope, it is conceivable to eliminate the manual labor n ... [more]

Professor Cox will present several recent projects with the American Museum of Natural History, Hayden Planetarium, and PBS Nova HDTV. She has worked with Robert Patterson and Stuart Levy at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to v ... [more]

Several different methods are available for collecting information from samples using the environmental scanning electron microscope (ESEM). While the microscope is operated at high vacuum, like a regular SEM, we can collect two types of electrons ... [more]

This week's forum will be a presentation of the Electronic Theatre (ET) Program from SIGGRAPH 2001. The ET is often considered *the* showcase for computer animation from the last year. This year' ... [more]

Microfluidic devices show a promising role in chemical and biochemical sensing, molecular separations, drug delivery and other forefront technologies in recent years. Incorporation of nanoporous membranes with microelectro-mechanical systems (MEMS ... [more]

The Visualization, Media and Imaging Laboratory (VMIL) is a Beckman Institute facility dedicated to providing BI researchers with state-of-the-art imaging, visualization, and analysis capabilities. Its resources can support a wide variety of proje ... [more]

Dr. Sever Tipeiwill explain a formal way of looking at the world of sound which allows for a unified approach to sound synthesis, music composition, and sonification.

The VMIL recently purchased two new digital cameras: the Canon G1 and the Nikon Coolpix995. Both are 3.34 Megapixel, have auto and manual focus features and offer 2048x1536 resolution. Sometimes it is hard to distinguish strengths and shortcomings ... [more]

Three-dimensional (3D) photonic bandgap (PBG) materials have recently generated great interest for their potential for photonic applications. 3D PBG structures have been postulated as the basis of low-loss waveguides, optical cavities, zero-thresh ... [more]

On the Job Consulting is a tech company based in downtown Urbana which started three years ago to employ artists and activists with high-paying part-time work. Staff make decisions by consensus, decide how many hours they want to work, regularly r ... [more]

Our lab investigates the deficits in memory exhibited in patients with profound memory impairments (i.e. amnesics). More specifically, I study the extent to which amnesics are impaired in their abilities to learn novel visual scenes. I have recent ... [more]

The amount of data generated on computers around the world doubles every year. Enormous databases exceeding 1 terabyte are common occurrence, especially at places dealing with image acquisition and image processing. Medical imaging is the area whe ... [more]

The architectural design process has throughout the ages begun with a conceptual idea sketched on a two-dimensional surface. But sketching on a 2-D surface provides a fundamental contradiction, for designs intended to be experienced in three dimen ... [more]