Wednesday

N1
Which Comes First, Utility or Usability?
Chair: Georges Grinstein (University of Massachusetts)

Invited Forum
The Visualization Market: Open Source vs. Commercial Approaches
Organizer and Host: Jeremy Jaech (Individual Investor, Co-Founder of Aldus and Founder of Visio)

Guest Speakers
Stephen North (Director of Information Visualization Research, AT&T Research)
Mike Peery (Co-Founder and CEO, Amtec Engineering, Inc)
Will Schroeder (Co-Founder and President, Kitware, Inc.)
Jim Thomas (Laboratory Fellow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

Thursday

N2
Interoperability of Visualization Software and Data Models is NOT an Achievable Goal
Chair: Wes Bethel (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

N3
Information and Scientific Visualization: Separate but Equal or Happy Together at Last
Chair: Theresa-Marie Rhyne (North Carolina State University)

N4
Do I Really See a Bone?
Chair: Raghu Machiraju (The Ohio State University)

Friday

N5
Visualization Experiences and Issues in Deep Space Exploration
Chair: John Wright (NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)