[Chicago] Several items that may be of interest to group members

[Jonathan Tonkin]

Hello,

While this may not be directly related to group topics, here are several items that may be of interest to group members.

1.) (shortest first) The Chicago Chapter of the ACM is now on Facebook and Twitter.  Join our Facebook Group (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=59120137059) or follow us on Twitter (username:  chicagoacm).

2.)  Next ACM Meeting: January 19, 2011 

A joint meeting with the Loyola University Computer Science Department

Speaker: Jami Montgomery

Topic: "A Software Tool for Creating Cartographical Projects and Extracting Data from High Resolution Topography Data Maps"

Wednesday, January 19, 2011, 6:30 pm
5:30 pm -6:30 pm (Social Hour)

Loyola University Water Tower Campus (Chicago/Michigan Area)
820 N Michigan, Chicago IL 60611
Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers)

Campus map: http://www.luc.edu/about/pdfs/wtc_may09.pdf 

Admission: Free (General Admission, No Reserved Seats)

Reservations:
To make a reservation, use this form:
(https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/chicagoacm.org/viewform?authkey=CK70jJcG&formkey=dEZhNjNzMlhYRDZJcW1GY3pPMVpfX2c6MA&ndplr=1#gid=0)
or send an e-mail to greg at neumarke.net. 

About the Topic: 

Recent advances in NASA’s space-based imaging have produced an unprecedented wealth of low and high-resolution topography data for planetary systems.  We used commodity graphical processing units (GPU) to generate real-time geo-referenced cartographical projects using the high-resolution topography data and provided geophysicists with a novel graphical method that automates the selection and extraction of sub-regional point-data from the topography data maps.

About the Speaker: 

Jami Montgomery is a senior associate researcher in the Information Retrieval Lab (IR) at Illinois Institute of Technology, where he continues research in geo-spatial data visualization, network protocol optimization and mobile devices.  Jami has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology.

More details at: http://www.chicagoacm.org/


Thanks,

Jonathan Tonkin 



      
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