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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