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The Sep 10 meeting of the IEEE C/SP group will feature Tom Sauer of
the Khoros Consortium speaking on

                             KHOROS:
            AN ENVIRONMENT FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING,
            DATA VISUALIZATION, AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT


The meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn Metrodome (Seven Corners, on U of
MN's West Bank).  The luncheon will start at 11:45.  $11.00 for IEEE members
$12.00 for non-members or not reservation.  Please call Doug Brown (574-6068)
for reservations.  DO NOT E-mail to me.


				   Abstract

The main goal of the Khoros software project is to create and provide an
integrated software development environment for information processing and
data visualization. The Khoros software system is now being used as a
foundation to improve productivity and promote software reuse in a wide
variety of application domains.  The Khoros infrastructure consists of eight
major subsystems:

o       A large-grain, data flow, visual language that may be extended to fit a
        specific application domain.

o       A user interface development system consisting of a User Interface
        Specification, UIS, and code generators.

o       An interoperable visualization and image file format, VIFF, supported
        by a comprehensive and automatic storage conversion library.

o       A data services library that supports the abstract data processing
        application programmers interface.

o       A set of meta-system calls which provide a foundation for distributed
        computing and efficient data transport.

o       Application specific data processing libraries; image processing,
        digital signal processing, numerical analysis, geographic information
        system, and file format conversion.

o       X Windows-based image display and graphics programming libraries.

o       A set of interactive X Windows programs address such areas as image
        display and manipulation, animation, 2D and 3D plotting, warping of
        image Data, classification, and surface visualization.


Tom Sauer is currently the Khoros Consortium Director and has been a
part of the Khoros development team for 5 years.  He is responsible
for the development of much of the image processing library and the
source configuration tools in Khoros.  His research interests include
pattern recognition and classification of remotely sensed images and
software development environments.
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