Optical Medical Imaging Lab at UT Southwestern Opens
Dignitaries from UT Arlington, UT Dallas, UT Southwestern, the UT System and a large number of researchers, physicians and guests were on hand for the opening and dedication of four Optical Medical Imaging Labs at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. Five College of Engineering faculty members will be conducting research in the labs. Details

New Program Will Provide Virtual Recreations of Events
Computer Science & Engineering Drs. Mohan Kumar and Yonghe Liu will recreate virtual scenes of events from the immediate past, thanks to a program they are developing that gathers information from various sensors and devices and combines them to create a virtual observation. They will be collaborating with the Curtin University of Technology in Perth, Australia. Details

Mining Databases for Hidden Information Goal of Researchers
Structured hidden databases are widely prevalent on the Internet. A hidden database is one that is only accessible to external users by way of a web form. For example, an airline reservation system uses a database, but users cannot directly write programs to access hidden information. Instead, they have to rely on the web form that the airline provides to search for flights, compare pricing, make bookings, etc. Details

Study Targets Social Networks/Data Mining Relationships
Social networks such as MySpace and Facebook have become increasingly popular and descriptive. To Computer Science & Engineering’s Dr. Gautam Das, these pervasive websites contain rich sets of properties in their nodes and edges [Nodes are persons; edges are relationships]. His Database Exploration Lab (http://dbxlab.uta.edu/index.htm) has received a $50,000 grant from the Nokia Research Center to bridge the gap between social network analysis and data mining/exploration. This research is aimed at finding techniques and algorithms that will enable analytical decision support and prediction by overcoming the challenges of scale and dimensionality.