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).

&ldquo;Hummingbird&rdquo; Exhibited at SIGGRAPH 2022 (S2022)

Call for Papers 
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There is widespread lack of accessibility in built environments, from roads and housing to public buildings and spaces. Such inaccessible urban infrastructure not only contributes to and further reinforces systemic exclusion of people with disabilities but also impacts public health, physical activity, and quality of life for all. To improve the design of our cities and to enable new accessibility-infused analytic tools and interactive maps, we need new data collection techniques, data standards, policies, and planning tools focused on the quality and accessibility of pathways, transit ecosystems, and buildings. 
The goal of our &ldquo;The Future of Urban Accessibility&rdquo; workshop is to bring together a community of scholars and practitioners across disciplines, disability identities, cultures, and geographies to discuss the state of urban accessibility and the role of interactive technologies therein. We invite short papers, including experience reports, position papers, vision pieces, demonstrations, pictorials, or research summaries up to 2,000 words on this topic (references excluded). Papers should not be anonymized and, in addition to their primary content, should include a bio of each author and rationale for attending the workshop. Papers will be reviewed and selected by the co-organizers to balance topics, geographies, and communities of focus. Accepted authors will be required to register and virtually attend the workshop via Zoom on Mon, Oct 17th. 
Please submit your papers/artifacts by Thu, Sep 1 at 11:59PM AoE. We are using Microsoft&rsquo;s Conference Management Toolkit to handle submissions <a href="https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/UrbanAccess2022/Submission/Index">(https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/UrbanAccess2022/Submission/Index)</a> 
Our overarching goal is to identify open challenges, share current work across disciplines, and spur new collaborations. As a secondary goal, we aim to synthesize and publish our discussions together in a jointly authored report perhaps to the SIGACCESS Newsletter or beyond. 
Please join us. We welcome your contributions! Email questions to: <a href="mailto:urbanaccess2022@cs.uw.edu">urbanaccess2022@cs.uw.edu</a>. 
Important dates 
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Thu, Sep 1, 2022 (11:59PM AoE): Workshop submission deadline 
Fri, Sept 16, 2022: Acceptance notifications out 
Wed, Sept 28, 2022: Workshop camera ready deadline 
Mon, Oct 10, 2022: Accepted workshop content posted 
Mon, Oct 17, 2022 (tentative): Virtual workshop via Zoom 
Lead workshop organizers: 
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Jon E. Froehlich, Computer Science, University of Washington 
Yochai Eisenberg, Disability & Human Development, University of Illinois, Chicago 
Maryam Hosseini, Urban Systems, Rutgers / NYU 
Fabio Miranda, Computer Science, University of Illinois, Chicago 
Full list of organizers: <a href="https://accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess2022/#organizers">https://accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess2022/#organizers</a>

The 1st <a href="https://accessiblecities.github.io/UrbanAccess2022/"> ASSETS&rsquo;22 Workshop</a> on The Future of Urban Accessibility

July 19th - 22nd, EVL hosted the SAGE3 research and development team to discuss the past year&rsquo;s major activities, significant results, key outcomes, other achievements, and future developments. Meeting topics include current SAGE3 usage patterns, user interface assessment and refinement, documentation improvements, future development requirements, as well as the dissemination of research results to the SAGE user community. 
&ldquo;SAGE3: Smart Amplified Group Environment for Harnessing the Data Revolution&rdquo; has been funded by the NSF CSI program to continue and advance its efforts on the SAGE collaboration and visualization framework. SAGE3 - Smart Amplified Group Environment - is the next-generation, &ldquo;human-in-the-loop&rdquo; collaboration platform with artificial intelligence (AI) enabled services that serve as a user’s &ldquo;co-pilot&rdquo; to autonomously manage and link disparate datasets and orchestrate services. Its predecessors, SAGE (Scalable Adaptive Graphics Environment) in 2004 and second-generation SAGE2 (Scalable Amplified Group Environment) in 2013, are today&rsquo;s de facto operating systems to manage Big Data on tiled display walls, enabling users to collaborate locally and remotely and access, display, share and manipulate documents and visualizations. 
SAGE3 is being developed by renowned cyberinfrastructure experts from the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA) and the Hawaii Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) at University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa (UHM), the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and the Sanghani Center for AI and Data Analytics (Sanghani) at Virginia Tech (VT).

EVL Hosts SAGE3 2022 All Hands Meeting

APLU&rsquo;s Council on Academic Affairs (CAA) provosts, chief academic officers, and senior vice presidents for academic affairs of APLU member institutions and systems visited EVL for presentations and CAVE2 virtual reality experiences during their 2022 Summer Meeting, July 18th. The annual meeting was hosted by the University of Illinois at Chicago July 17 - 19. This event provides a unique opportunity for senior leaders to meet in a private setting to network and discuss important topics of current interest. This year, the meeting focused on the pandemic&rsquo;s impact on faculty and student performance and engagement as well as their mental health issues, preparing students for the current and future workforce needs, and emerging uses of AI in higher education. 
See the detailed program <a href="https://web.cvent.com/event/fa3fc6ed-582b-413b-a6b0-0ca84442b020/websitePage:16f39142-8fd2-4e65-9685-e11be7fd120c">Agenda.</a>

APLU&rsquo;s Council on Academic Affairs (CAA) Visit EVL

A collaboration of the UIC, Columbia College Chicago and the Chicago Design Archive (CDA), the &ldquo;Chicago Design Through the Decades&rdquo; project is a swift exciting journey through the history of Chicago design over the last one hundred years with content based on resources from the collection of the CDA. Following engaging characters and textual tidbits found in design works held in the archive, the journey begins in the 1920s with the era&rsquo;s painterly and illustrative techniques, evolves through the decades, and ends in the 2010s with digital rendering using AI and machine learning (ML)-technologies becoming increasingly prevalent in the contemporary landscape. At once nostalgic and whimsical, both humorous and sobering moments abound through the decades. 
The project will be showcased as part of <a href="https://artonthemart.com/">Art onTheMart</a> with previews this summer and an official opening on November 17th. 
The Chicago Design Archive is an exclusive and permanent online record of Chicago design currently holding over 3200 examples of work by over 1100 designers. 
As designers and educators, Daria Tsoupikova, Sharon Oiga and Guy Villa Jr lead a team of creators and archivists whose overarching goal is to increase the understanding and appreciation of Chicago design history and to contribute to the recognition of Chicago as an international modern design center through their use of innovative technologies. 
The project team consists of the following individuals: 
Daria Tsoupikova, UIC School of Design & EVL 
Sharon Oiga, UIC School of Design & CDA 
Guy Villa Jr, Columbia College Chicago 
Krystofer Kim, NASA 
Fabio Miranda, UIC Computer Science & EVL 
Jack Weiss, CDA 
Cheri McIntyre, CDA 
Lauren Meranda, CDA 
Louis Schwadron, Sky White Sound

Chicago Design Through the Decades

Save the date for June 11th for the preview of the &ldquo;Chicago Design Through the Decades&rdquo; project on the <a href="https://artonthemart.com/">Art ontheMART</a> at the Merchandise Mart Chicago. A collaboration between the Chicago Design Archive and EVL and School of Design professor Daria Tsoupikova and EVL assistant professor Fabio Miranda, who created the AI/ML visualization for the last contemporary decade - 2010s. 
The exhibition will showcase works from the Chicago Design Archive taking viewers on a journey that begins in the 1920s with the era&rsquo;s painterly and illustrative techniques, evolves through the decades, and ends in the 2010s with digital rendering using AI and machine learning (ML)-technologies becoming increasingly prevalent in the contemporary landscape. 
This preview will be held for one day only to align with the opening of the NeoCon Design Conference to be held at the Merchandise Mart June 13-15. This is a FREE OUTDOOR public event to be held at the corner of West Wacker Drive and North Orleans Streets on the Riverwalk.

Announcing SAGE3 Upcoming Events !!

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