• Kenton McHenry presents details on NCSA's Polyglot conversion service at the Preservation of Complex Objects Symposium at Kings College, UK

• Peter Bajcsy presents details on the ISDA Tools at the National Archives in College Park, MD

• Peter Bajsy presents an approach to provide free searchable access to handwritten information within the 1930/1940 Census forms at the University of Maryland

• CyberIntegrator allows workflows across software on distributed machines to be run, repeated, and modified via a simple graphical interface.

• NCSA 3D Utilities provides tools along with an API to load, view, manipulate, and compare 3D files.

• Michal Ondrejcek presents the Conversion Software Registry at the Microsoft eScience Workshop.

• The ISDA Tools 2011, Open Source Tools for Digital Preservation

The ISDA group carries out research and development emphasizing solutions to real life problems, often in collaboration with other scientists (in our terminology "domain" scientists) in the application areas of machine vision, synthetic aperture radar (SAR) target and scene modeling, land use and land cover classification, bio-informatics, microscopy/medical image processing, geo-spatial information systems (GIS), and advanced sensor environments. The work draws from theoretical foundations of image and video processing, computer vision, statistical modeling, data mining, pattern recognition, software engineering, and sensor design. The main goal of our research and development is to automate information processing of repetitive, laborious and tedious analysis tasks and build user-friendly decision-making systems that operate in automated or semi-automated mode.

Kenton McHenry

ISDA Group leader and Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

Associate Director for Applied Computer Vision, Institute for Computing in Humanities, Arts, and Social Science (ICHASS)