&ldquo;Chicago Design Through the Decades&rdquo; by UIC Design and EVL Professor Daria Tsoupikova, Sharon Oiga, and Guy Villa Jr. will be on view at Art of theMart: 
Friday, November 18 - Friday, December 30, 7:30 & 8:00 p.m. 
Best viewed on The Chicago Riverwalk between Wells and Lake Streets. 
<a href="https://artonthemart.com/programming/">Art on theMART</a> is the largest permanent digital art projection in the world, projecting contemporary artwork across the 2.5 acre river-façade of theMART. Art on theMART provides a public platform for moving image work by renowned local, national and international multi-disciplinary artists. The program is the result of a 30-year commitment by theMART owner Vornado Realty Trust, in close collaboration with the City of Chicago, with the shared goal to provide public access to innovative contemporary artwork for the thousands of visitors traversing the Chicago Riverwalk each day. 
Join us in celebrating the work of our colleagues and collaborators for the exhibition opening Friday, November 18th at 7:30 p.m.!

November 18th Opening of &ldquo;Chicago Design Through the Decades&rdquo; on the Art on theMART

SAGE3 beta version software and documentation will be introduced next week at the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC22) conference in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 13-18, 2022. The SAGE User Community is invited to attend the SC22 Birds of a Feather (BOF) meeting and participate in ongoing SAGE3 demonstrations in the SC22 Exhibition. 
Attend the &ldquo;SAGE 12th SC BOF: Smart Amplified Group Environment Enhanced with Artificial Intelligence for Global Collaboration&rdquo;: 
 * Tuesday, November 15, 2022 
 *12:15PM - 01:15PM CST 
 * Room: D168, Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Center Dallas 
 * <a href="https://sc22.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof141&sess=sess312">https://sc22.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof141&sess=sess312</a> 
Join us for SAGE3 demonstrations in the StarLight research booth # 2847 on the exhibition floor, Tuesday-Thursday. 
SAGE3, the Smart Amplified Group Environment, is the next-generation, &ldquo;human-in-the-loop&rdquo; collaboration platform, providing HPC users with the tools to access, explore, discover, publish, share, integrate, and reuse complex datasets. SAGE3 supports today&rsquo;s hybrid work/home environments (laptops, single monitors and display walls), and interfaces with a variety of computational infrastructures, workflows, notebooks, and analytics software through Artificial Intelligence-enabled services and orchestration services. It lowers the barrier of entry into AI for non-expert users, democratizing access to disruptive technologies for those with varying skills. 
The BOF will not be streamed. SAGE3 software and documentation will be available for download on the SAGE3 website. The SAGE3 team plans to hold SAGE3 educational webinars, starting next year. 
REMINDER: SAGE3 / SAGE2 COMMUNITY USER FORUMS are now hosted on Slack. To join, go to the <a href="https://sage3.sagecommons.org/">SAGE3 website</a> and click on the Support menu. 
 * For SAGE3, subscribe to the sage3-support channel. 
 * For SAGE2, subscribe to the sage2-support channel. 
Thank you for your longstanding support of SAGE and we look forward to continued collaborations. 
Maxine Brown 
SAGE team member 
<a href="mailto:maxine@uic.edu">maxine@uic.edu</a> 
SAGE3 is being developed by the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) and the Hawaii Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (UHM), the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and the InfoVis Lab at Virginia Tech (VT). SAGE3 receives major funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), awards #2004014 (UHM), #2003800 (UIC) and #2003387 (VT). 
SAGE2 received major NSF support, award #ACI-1441963, to UHM and UIC. 
SAGE, SAGE2 and SAGE3 are trademarks of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

INTRODUCING SAGE3 at the SC22 - Tuesday, November 15, 12:15pm - 1:15pm

UIC Department of Computer Science 
Doctoral Admissions Webinar 
November 2nd 2022 @7 am-8:30am Chicago time (CDT) 
Webinar: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/uicwebinar2022">https://tinyurl.com/uicwebinar2022</a> 
See what the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago has to offer! Located in the beautiful city of Chicago, UIC is among the most culturally diverse universities in the United States, and home to one of the most innovative computer science departments in the United States. UIC is Chicago&rsquo;s top public research university, and was recently ranked in the top 20 of the best 100 universities worldwide that are under 50 years of age. Doctoral students in their first five years of enrollment are guaranteed a fully funded appointment that includes a tuition waiver, and a stipend. Students are also eligible for summer support. Our students get jobs in academia, industry, and entertainment upon graduation, including positions at top research labs and companies such as Google, Microsoft, Apple, Disney, and Amazon. 
During this webinar, UIC Computer Science faculty will talk about our research agenda, application fee waivers, the application process, application expectations in terms of GPA/GRE etc, and will take questions. A recording of the webinar will be made available on our Graduate Admissions page. 
Apply: <a href="https://cs.uic.edu/graduate/admissions/">https://cs.uic.edu/graduate/admissions/</a> 
Deadline: December 15th 2022 
See our flyer at: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/uic2022flyer">https://tinyurl.com/uic2022flyer</a> 
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AI competency will be an essential workforce skill. A group of computer scientists and learning science experts are considering what a foundational introduction to AI might look like for middle school and high school students. EVL affiliated faculty, Michael E. Papka, professor of computer science at UIC and deputy associate laboratory director and supercomputing facility director at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, along with a like-minded group of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) educators, and computer scientists are researching the gap in future workforce skills in addressing AI problems. They began to brainstorm about a new tool, or perhaps a teaching module, that would introduce AI concepts to the young researchers of tomorrow. 
&ldquo;AI research is making major strides,&rdquo; said Papka. &ldquo;We are seeing progress in many areas of AI, made not only by new techniques, but especially by new hardware for running computationally intensive AI models.&rdquo; 
Read Laura Wolf&rsquo;s featured article <a href="https://www.anl.gov/article/science-beyond-siri-a-team-of-educators-and-computer-scientists-take-on-ai">Science beyond Siri: A team of educators and computer scientists take on AI</a> in the Argonne National Laboratory news.

Science beyond Siri: A team of educators and computer scientists take on AI

UIC <a href="https://cs.uic.edu/undergraduate/cs-and-design/">Engineering&rsquo;s News</a> promotes the new and very popular computer science + design undergraduate degree. UIC is the only public university offering this interdisciplinary degree, which addresses the growing trend and demand for creative technologists in the job market. The CSX program, as the computer science + design degree is also known will teach topics from augmented and virtual reality to 3D fabrication. 
To see more of the Engineering&rsquo; newsletter and activities featured as the Dean&rsquo;s list see: 
<a href="https://emails.uofi.uic.edu/newsletter/669921009.html">https://emails.uofi.uic.edu/newsletter/669921009.html</a>

Computer Science + Design Major

The SAGE3 Team has been quiet far too long, but we&rsquo;ve been very busy! Here&rsquo;s what to look forward to in the coming months: 
* SAGE3 beta version software with documentation will be released the week of the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC22) conference, to be held in Dallas, Texas, USA, November 13-18, 2022. More information about the release will be forthcoming. For information on SC22, see: <a href="https://sc22.supercomputing.org/">https://sc22.supercomputing.org/</a> 
* A 1-hour SAGE3 Birds of a Feather (BoF) session and ongoing demonstrations and presentations will take place during SC22. At the BoF (Tuesday, Nov 15 from 12:15-13:15 in Room D168), the SAGE3 team will introduce the latest software release. The team will also share a booth in the research exhibition (StarLight booth #2847 as well as partner booths) and will conduct demos and presentations. More information will be forthcoming. 
* Educational SAGE3 webinars will be held, starting next year. Team members will present SAGE3&rsquo;s features and capabilities, provide use cases, answer questions, and solicit user feedback and use cases. More information will be forthcoming. 
Have you tried the SAGE3 alpha version for Linux, Windows and MacOS, which was released in December 2021? If not, go to the SAGE3 website, download the software and display client, and watch the &ldquo;How To&rdquo; video. 
<a href="https://sage3.sagecommons.org/">https://sage3.sagecommons.org/</a> 
REMINDER: SAGE3 / SAGE2 COMMUNITY USER FORUMS are now hosted on Slack. To join, go to the SAGE3 website and click on the Support menu: 
<a href="https://sage3.sagecommons.org/?page_id=60">https://sage3.sagecommons.org/?page_id=60</a> 
For SAGE3, subscribe to the sage3-support channel. 
For SAGE2, subscribe to the sage2-support channel. 
Thank you for your longstanding support of SAGE3 and we look forward to continued collaborations. 
Maxine Brown 
SAGE team member 
<a href="mailto:maxine@uic.edu">maxine@uic.edu</a> 
SAGE3 is being developed by the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) and the Hawaii Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) at University of Hawai&rsquo;i at Manoa (UHM), the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and the InfoVis Lab at Virginia Tech (VT). SAGE3 receives major funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), awards #2004014 (UHM), #2003800 (UIC) and #2003387 (VT). 
SAGE2 received major NSF support, award #ACI-1441963, to UHM and UIC. 
SAGE, SAGE2 and SAGE3 are trademarks of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.

Announcing SAGE3 Upcoming Events !!

This academic year 2023 EVL alum Mike Papka has joined UIC&rsquo;s Department of Computer Science and EVL faculty as a professor, bringing years of expertise in high performance computing to campus. For nearly three decades, Papka has held the position of Research Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory contributing to research in high performance computing, scientific visualization of large and complex datasets, information visualization related to high-performance computing, virtual reality for science and the integration of edge services. 
Since 2006, he’s served as Deputy Associate Laboratory Director, Computing, Environment and Life Sciences (CELS) Directorate, providing strategic planning and management of the Laboratory Directorate comprising Biosciences, Computational Science, Data Science and Learning, Environmental Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science, a joint institute with Northwestern University, and the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility. In his role, Papka aids in executing a research program that aims to couple computing-related activities with several science domains whose future is tied to progress in computing.
 For the last 12 years, Papka has served and continues to serve as Division Director at Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). He is responsible for planning and executing facility upgrades and integrated data strategies, risk assessment and management, operations reporting and reviews, staff promotion and retention, and safety. The ALCF is home to some of the world&rsquo;s fastest supercomputers: Theta; a Cray XC40 supercomputer based on Intel’s Xeon Phi KNL processor and NVIDIA DGX-3, Polaris; a HPE Apollo 6500 Gen10+ based on AMD Milan processor and NVIDIA A100s, and Aurora; a Intel CPU/GPU system currently being installed that support scientific and engineering open science research. 
We welcome Mike&rsquo;s return to UIC and EVL! He undoubtedly will be a valued asset to our research and educational enterprise.

Alum Michael E. Papka Joins EVL Faculty

Professor Andruid Kerne joins the Department of Computer Science and EVL as incoming faculty specializing in Human Computer Interaction. Kerne comes to UIC completing his assignment to the National Science Foundation (NSF) as a "rotator" program director, in the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, Human-Centered Computing program, and professor at the Texas A&M Department of Computer Science and Engineering. His interest include transdisciplinary research and teaching with emphasis on investigating the future of human expression, integrating art and design with science. 
Kerne directs the Interface Ecology Lab, which addresses how to generate new knowledge by combining methods and their disciplines, where theory and practice are connected. Learn more about the Interface Ecology Lab and Andruid Kerne’s research activities, publications and participation at <a href=” https://ecologylab.net/”>https://ecologylab.net/</a>.

Andruid Kerne Joins EVL Faculty as Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science and EVL faculty member G. Elisabeta Marai has been promoted to Professor Academic Year 2022.  Dr. Marai&rsquo;s research focuses upon visual computing and analysis, an area of computer science that handles images, 3D models, and the interaction between humans and data that can be represented visually.  She has received several research awards with the National Science Foundation (NSF) and multi-site US National Institutes of Health (NIH) R01 awards.  Dr. Marai has also been recognized with outstanding research and teaching awards, and her research has been featured on journal and newsletter covers.  She has co-authored scientific open-source software adopted internationally and is a patent co-author whose ideas have been embedded in a medical device.  Dr. Marai is a valued faculty member, researcher and inventor who is well deserving of the promotion to Professor of Computer Science.  Congratulations!

G. Elisabeta Marai Promoted to Professor

Following the premiere of &ldquo;Hummingbird&rdquo; as part of the Chicago&rsquo;s Tony Award-winning Goodman Theatre New Stages Festival in December 2021, the virtual reality theatrical experience was exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2022 Conference Immersive Pavilion held in Vancouver, CA, August 8-11th. Team members enhanced the existing experience to allow for a stand-alone version running consecutively for 4 days to sell-out audiences/participants - augmenting interactivity, animations, videography as well as upgrades to the underlying software and VR systems. By all accounts the exhibition was extremely well received and a success. 
&ldquo;Hummingbird: Multi-User Virtual Reality Theater for Collaborative Tele-Immersive Exploration&rdquo; is a modern, innovative performance, merging live theater and interactive virtual reality by bringing a group of active participants into a shared space for a live performance. This project bridges art, science and live theater through a collaborative research effort between computer science and design faculty and students at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) and Chicago theater directors, actors, videographers and producers. &ldquo;Hummingbird&rdquo; is developed by Daria Tsoupikova (Professor, School of Design); Andrew Johnson (Professor, EVL, Computer Science); Jo Cattell (Goodman Theatre); Lance Long (Senior Research Programmer, EVL, Computer Science); Arthur Nishimoto (PhD Candidate, EVL, Computer Science); Sai Jyothula Priya (PhD Candidate, EVL, Computer Science).

November 18th Opening of “Chicago Design Through the Decades” on the Art on theMART

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