http://www.bugc.org/Notices/00/Apr/SIGGRAPHBoston-12April.txt From: Colin Godfrey Subject: SIGGRAPH/Boston at RTViz, Concord, Wed. 12 April Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 8:29 PM 
 
 
 
                  SIGGRAPH/Boston Meeting Announcement 
                   Site Visit to RTViz in Concord, MA                    Wednesday 12 April 2000, 6:00pm 
 
 Abstract 
   VolumePro(tm), the world's first real time volume visualization   system for PC-class machines began shipping to customers in May   1999.  Mitsubishi's Real Time Visualization business unit   (http://www.rtviz.com) of Concord MA designs and sell VolumePro   into visualization and research applications across several   industries .  In this meeting, we will demonstrate VolumePro on a   variety of three dimensional data sets.  We will then present a   short overview of the VolumePro rendering algorithm and discuss   real world applications. 
 
 About the Speaker 
   Hugh Lauer is Chief Technical Officer of Real Time Visualization   (RTViz) and one its founders.  Hugh was an early member of   Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL) in Cambridge, MA.   He was instrumental in spinning off the RTViz business unit from   MERL.  Prior to Mitsubishi Electric, Hugh worked at Eastman Kodak,   Apollo Computer, and Xerox PARC.  He earned a Ph.D. in Computer   Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 1972. 
 
 About the Company and the Product 
   Real Time Visualization, a business unit of Mitsubishi Electric,   operates like an entrepreneurial startup, except for financial   support it receives from its parent company.  RTViz is anticipated   to spin out of Mitsubishi's sole ownership within the next 12   months.  The RTViz story began with research on Volume Graphics at   MERL under Dr. Sarah Gibson in 1994.  After preparation of business   and technology plans and promoting them in the US and Japan,   development of VolumePro began in earnest in late 1997.  In April   1999, the first silicon for VolumePro was fabricated, and a month   later VolumePro boards and software began shipping to customers.   In July 1999, RTViz outgrew its quarters in the research lab at   MERL and re-located to Concord.  RTViz customers now include   virtually all of the major medical imaging vendors worldwide.   Integrators also include dozens of companies who make and sell   seismic, scientific, weather, microscopy and industrial imaging   applications. 
   RTViz has earned a number of product awards in 1999 for VolumePro,   including: 
     * Innovation Award for 1999 - Computer Graphics World,        January 2000 issue.  (www.cgw.com)     * 100 Hot Products 1999 - EDN Magazine (www.ednmag.com)     * Top 10 Products in 1999 - Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, Japan     * EETimes Product of the Week - July 5, 1999     * Finalist in the 1999 EDN Innovation of the Year Award (TBA in       April)     * Mitsubishi Electric - President's Award 
 
 When 
   The meeting date is Wednesday 12 April 2000.  The meeting will   start at 6:00pm with networking time and refreshments.  Brief   announcements will start at 7:00pm, followed by the feature   presentation. 
 
 Where 
   300 Baker Avenue, Suite 301   Concord, MA 01742   Phone: 978-369-6500   FAX: 978-369-7724 
   From Boston and Points East: 
     Take Mass Pike West (I-90) to Route 128 North (I-95) Take Route     128 North to Route 2 West.  Follow Route 2 West to its     intersection with Route 62, (approx. 7 miles). 
     Go straight through the lights at the Route 62 intersection.     About one half a mile past the Route 62 intersection there     will be another intersection where Baker Avenue goes off to the     left.  In order to make that left onto Baker Avenue, you will     need to take the jug handle exits to the right (a sign says     Concord Center) as if you were going to the Papa Razzi Restaurant     that is clearly visible on the right. 
     After taking the right onto the jug handle and before you get to     Papa Razzi, make a sharp left to cross over Route 2 at the lights     and you will be on Baker Avenue. 
     Take the first right into a large parking lot (travelling only     0.2 miles on Baker Avenue), you will see a large building with     several sections, Mitsubishi - Real Time Visualization is off of     the main section of the building. 
     Please use our main entrance located in the center of the     building.  You will see a sign for Mitsubishi - Real Time     Visualization as you enter the lobby of the building.  We are     located on 3rd floor, suite 301.  Take the elevator to the third     floor and turn left after getting off the elevator. 
   From Point West/Route 495: 
     Route 495 South to Route 2 East (Exit 29).  Follow Route 2 East     to the rotary next to the Concord prison.  Continue on Route 2     East past the rotary to the first traffic lights, (which is about     a quarter of a mile). 
     Turn right onto Baker Avenue at the lights.  Take the first right     into a large parking lot (traveling only 0.2 miles on Baker     Avenue), you will see a large building with several sections. 
     Please use our main entrance located in the center of the     building.  You will see a sign for Mitsubishi - Real Time     Visualization as you enter the lobby of the building.  We are     located on 3rd floor, suite 301.  Take the elevator to the third     floor and turn left after getting off the elevator. 
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 VIENNA, Austria--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 3, 2000  
 Real Time Visualization(TM) (RTViz), a Mitsubishi Electric business unit, makes its European debut at the European Congress of Radiology in Vienna, where the company demonstrates its VolumePro(TM) 500-2X, a real-time 3D volume rendering PCI board for PCs and UNIX workstations.  
 The product is currently available to European customers through the company's Web site: www.rtviz.com.  
 The VolumePro 500-2X with 256MB has the capacity to store 512 x 512 x 512 volume data sets. This memory configuration enables users to effortlessly interpret Computed Tomography (CT), Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and 3D ultrasound clinical studies in real time.  
 The VolumePro 500-2X delivers superior image quality at PC price points. In fact, EDN magazine has chosen RTViz and the VolumePro as a finalist from among hundreds of candidates in its "Innovation of the Year 1999" award, which recognizes outstanding engineering products in the electronics industry.  
 The VolumePro comes equipped with a rich set of hardware-assisted features like gradient-based Phong-lighting, cropping, slicing, Z-axis super-sampling, multiple light sources, interactive color and opacity manipulation and displays them in real time. The board is easily programmed using a Volume Library Interface API, a set of C++ classes that exist within an open GL context.  
 Volume rendering is a key technology for understanding and evaluating vast amounts of scanned 3D data, which is crucial in medical acquisition techniques as well as geophysical and industrial applications.  
 The VolumePro is supported for Windows NT(TM), Solaris(TM) UNIX, IRIX(TM) UNIX, and soon Linux operating system platforms.  
 RTViz, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric, was formed in 1997 from research developed at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, Mass. The Concord, Mass.-based company has pioneered real-time volume rendering hardware and software acceleration on PC-class computers with superior image quality at PC price points.  
 For more information visit www.rtviz.com or contact Steve Sandy, director of marketing and business development, at 408/774-3092 or at sandy@rtviz.com.  
 With headquarters in Cypress, Calif., Mitsubishi Electronics America markets an extensive line of consumer, commercial, information systems and industrial electronics products. Mitsubishi Electronics America, Inc., is the largest U.S. subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corp. of Tokyo. For additional information, visit http://www.mitsubishielectric-usa.com. 
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