
Ice Hockey Game
My good friend and teammate George Kouleles was visiting me in Chicago, so we decided to hit the rink and shoot some pucks together. John Koufis, friend and teammate, joined us for the late rat-hockey …
21 November 2012

Scalable visual queries for data exploration on large, high-resolution …
As the scale and complexity of data continue to grow at unprecedented rates, scientists are increasingly relying on Large, High-Resolution Displays to visualize and analyze scientific datasets. …
12 November 2012

Field trip in Kenya
For the 2012 Spring Semester I registered with the Computational Ecology class taught by Tanya Berger-Wolf, which got me to the Mpala Research Center and Wildlife Foundation at Mpala, Kenya. The class …
10 January 2012

The OmegaDesk: towards a hybrid 2D and 3D work desk
OmegaDesk is a device that allows for seamless interaction between 2D and 3D content. In order to develop this hybrid device, a new form of Operating System is needed to manage and display …
26 September 2011

John Snow’s Interactive Cholera Map
In 1854 in the Soho district of London there was a severe cholera outbreak, famously known as The 1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak, taking the lives of 616 people. While the bacterium was isolated …
1 September 2009

A game-engine based virtual museum authoring and presentation system
In this paper we present a system that facilitates virtual museum development and usage. The system is based on a game engine, ensuring thus minimal cost and good performance, and includes provisions …
10 September 2008

Video index and search services based on content identification …
In this paper we examine the methodology, architectural issues and preliminary statistical results for identifying the presence and position of a given query clip within a massive collection of video …
31 March 2008