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The UK Visual Analytics Consortium (UKVAC) is a partnership of UK universities with a shared interest in establishing a multi-disciplinary scientific community in the UK dedicated to promoting and contributing to the visual analytics research and development agenda in the UK. UKVAC is coordinated from Middlesex University and includes Imperial College London, Oxford University, Bangor University and University College London. UKVAC is working with the support of the US Department of Homeland Security via the US National Visualization and Analytics Center at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Washington State, and in close collaboration with the UK Home Office.
UKVAC's goals are to:
- Strengthen UK research in the area of visual analytics and develop recommendations for the research and development agenda.
- Raise the level of awareness of visual analytics in the Government, Industry, and user communities.
- Strengthening research and collaborative links between the UK, the EU, Canada, and the US.
- Foster the education of the next generation of students in the area of visual analytics
VAC Views article on UKVAC : Putting the pieces together - download [pdf 1,245kb]
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March 2010. The UKVAC sent a team of 7 scientists to meet with colleagues at NVAC, at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, and then on to the DHS Universities Program Summit in Washington, DC. The team comprised Dr Jonathan Roberts, Bangor University, Professor Min Chen, Swansea University, Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College, Mr Anthony Rowe, Imperial College, Dr Simon Attfield, University College London, and Professors Balbir Barn and William Wong, Middlesex University. The visit was funded by the British Consulate in Houston, TX. At the NVAC, the team was introduced to the research being carried out there in data and visual analytics, and how that is also being applied to support frontline operators such as first responders. At the 3 day DHS Summit, the team attended many presentations showing the kinds of research into security that the DHS is funding universities to carry out.
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