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Bob Dunn

Going Beyond the Rear-View Mirror and Dashboards

Presenter: Bob Dunn, President of ESI Advisors

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Abstract: To see what is likely to matter 6-24 months from now, visualization-based information analysis methods and tools driven by textual information are needed to overcome severe limitations that exist for data-driven analysis methods and tools that rely on historical and current numeric information.

• Statistical norms and cycles fail as adequate indicators as trends and paradigms shift or change and new technologies become relevant.
• Uncertainty in statistical projections grow too large much beyond 60-90 days and render such projections un-useful.
• Increasingly, significant and relevant leading indicators are most likely to be found in textual documents, published announcements and published reports rather than in performance data.

This paper will review an evolving visualization-based information analysis method, technology and tool that appears to provide needed capabilities for use in commercial, financial, industrial, and governmental sectors – and more. Current capabilities are geared for concurrent analysis of up to 10 (exponential 4) documents.

Biographical Sketch: Bob Dunn, President of ESI Advisors, is active as a technologist and corporate developer to serve the world of technology companies and businesses with special interests in information technology, the Internet, computer graphics, visualization, manufacturing technology, telecommunications, medical equipment and biosciences. Bob is currently active as a partner in companies providing: visualization-based intelligence software; specialty, online peer-peer networks; business design assessment services, and mariculture growing systems. He also advises companies providing: real-time, active-location information networks; data visualization products; e-media services; infotainment distribution services; and high-performance simulation systems. His research interests have included computer graphics and visualization, software engineering tools, intelligence analysis, switched voice and data networks, mobile radio, military command and control systems, engineering and manufacturing systems, language translation systems, and modeling and simulation systems. He has an MSE from University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Rutgers University. He is a former Chairman of ACM SIGGRAPH; and, he formed and led the team that produced X3H3 - the US standard on device independent software. His current avocation passion is economic development for Western North Carolina.

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