Tag: Hanspeter Pfister

  • Science & Tech

    Big data, massive potential

    Across Harvard, programs and researchers are mining big data, vast quantities of computerized information, often revolutionizing their fields in the process.

  • Science & Tech

    The promise of ‘big data’

    Harvard symposium embraces the goals and challenges of collecting and processing massive amounts of information on key complex issues.

  • Science & Tech

    Perfecting digital imaging

    Despite advances, the best software and video cameras cannot seem to get computer-generated images and digital film to look exactly the way our eyes expect them to. Harvard’s Hanspeter Pfister and Todd Zickler are working to narrow the gap between “virtual” and “real” by asking the question: How do we see what we see?

  • Science & Tech

    Action figures come to life

    A group of graphics experts led by computer scientists at Harvard have created an add-on software tool that translates video game characters — or any other three-dimensional animations — into fully articulated action figures, with the help of a 3-D printer.

  • Nation & World

    Helping teachers hone their techniques

    Ronald Heifetz of HKS led the final seminar in this year’s “Talking about Teaching” series, a University-wide effort to explore pedagogical connections across disciplines and Schools.

  • Health

    A better view of heart disease

    In clinical settings, simple 2-D displays of human arteries are more effective than traditional 3-D rainbow models, according to Harvard researchers.

  • Science & Tech

    Brain navigation

    Hanspeter Pfister, an expert in high-performance computing and visualization, is part of an interdisciplinary team collaborating on the Connectome Project at the Center for Brain Science. The project aims to create a wiring diagram of all the neurons in the brain.

  • Science & Tech

    Computer imaging that aids science

    Miriah Myer, a postdoctoral fellow, is a computer scientist using technology to better model and clarify medical data.

  • Science & Tech

    Harnessing fun for serious science

    Researchers from chemistry, computer science, and astronomy are learning a trick or two from video games and investigating a new kind of computing based on graphics processing units.

  • Science & Tech

    Humans and computers connect in Discovery Room

    Chia Shen at the Scientists Discovery Room Lab is devising new ways for researchers to visually explore large data sets.