
Dr. Andrew Johnson is an Associate Professor of Computer Science and member of the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
His research and teaching focus on interaction and collaboration using advanced visualization displays and the application of those displays to enhance discovery and learning.
News
spring '09
This spring I will be teaching CS 525 - GPU Programming in EVL's Cybercommons classroom.
fall '09
This fall I won the 2009 award for Excellence in Teaching, which is given out to at most five faculty members each year at UIC. More details here

I am teaching a new course in the fall - Visualization and Visual Analytics - with the temporary number of CS 491. This is a more practical undergraduate and graduate version of the 'current topics in visualization' course that I have been teaching for several years. It is also be the first course taught in EVL's new Cyber-Commons classroom.
summer '09

EVL hosted a second Saturday of 'science chicago' on July 18th from 12 - 2pm. I talked about 'Imaging the Future' and the public was able to interact with current hardware and software projects. For more details see sciencechicago.com

The 'Water' exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago featured EVL's raintable software running on an EVL-developed high-resolution table, developed in collaboration with the Science Museum of Minnesota. The exhibit ran from June 17 through September 20.
NSF STCI: OptIPlanet Cyber-Mashup: Persistent Visualization and Collaboration Services for Global Cyber Infrastructure Awarded to UIC/EVL.
spring '09

I have started porting some of my OpenGL applications to the iPhone.
Here is a link to Unfolding Space
Here
is a link to battalion
From May '09 through January '10 Unfolding Space has been in the top 9%-12% of lifestyle apps, and battalion has been around the top 36% of action games.
Contact Information
office location

Electronic Visualization Laboratory
2032 Engineering Research Facility
University of Illinois at Chicago
842 W. Taylor St.
Chicago, IL 60607
ajohnson at uic.edu
(312) 996-3002 - EVL phone
(312) 413-7585 - EVL fax
mail address
Department of Computer Science (M/C 152)
851 S. Morgan St., Room 1120 SEO
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL 60607-7053
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