AESTHETIC COMPUTING LEADS THE WAY FOR NEW INTERFACES IN MATH, COMPUTING AND SCIENCE
Posted - 4/12/04
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- One day in 1997 as Dr. Paul Fishwick, professor in the CISE Department, was returning home on a
flight, he observed the landscape, dotted with objects. “Wouldn’t it be something,” he thought, “if all of those objects
represented equations or parts of computer programs?” And thus, the field of Aesthetic Computing was born. Aesthetic
computing, a term coined by Fishwick, attempts to take the abstract world of math, equations, and formulas and put them
into two-dimensional or three-dimensional representation in either digital or tangible forms to facilitate better
understanding of mathematical formulas or scientific concepts.
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UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF HOW VIRUSES FORM: UF PROFESSOR MAKES HEADWAY WITH COMPUTER SIMULATION AND MODELS
Posted - 4/12/04
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Dr. Meera Sitharam is using geometry, computer simulation, and modeling to approach
the age-old problem among scientists about how biological viruses form. “There has been much work on the study
of viruses since the l950s, but the issue of how they assemble and form is poorly understood,” says
Sitharam.
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