Barry Becker's Home Page

I'm currently an engineer in the MineSet group. I create cool data visualization tools like the one shown below.

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My machine is: becker.engr.sgi.com



My hobbies are aikido and go.

Contact Information at

Phone: 650-933-6099
Email address: becker@engr.sgi.com 
Postal address: MS 8U 500 2011 N. 
Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 

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Research:

I worked with Nelson Max and Roger Crawfis at LLNL developing new methods of scalar and vector field visualization. See ... for more info about the scientific visualization research going on there.

Recently I've been working on the MineSet project at SGI.

Selected Publications:

Becker, Barry G., David A. Lane, and Nelson L. Max, Unsteady Flow Volumes, (327 kb), presented at Visualization '95, Altanta, Georgia, 1995.

Max, Nelson, Roger Crawfis and Barry Becker, Applications of Texture Mapping to Volume and Flow Visualization, Proceedings of Graphicon '95, July 1995.

Max, Nelson, and Barry Becker, Flow Visualization Using Moving Textures, Proceedings of the ICASW/LaRC Symposium on Visualizing Time-Varying Data, September 18-19, 1995.

Crawfis, Roger, Nelson Max, and Barry Becker, Vector Field Visualization, Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 14, pp. 50-56, 1994.

Stein, Clifford, Barry Becker, Nelson Max, Sorting and Hardware Assisted Rendering for Volume Visualization, presented at 1994 Symposium on Volume Visualization, Washington, D.C., 1994.

Crawfis, Roger A., Barry Becker, Brian Cabral, Nelson Max, Volume Rendering of 3D Scalar and Vector Fields at LLNL, presented at Supercomputing '93, Portland, Oregon, 1993.

Crawfis, Roger, Nelson Max, Barry Becker, Visualizing Dynamic Systems in Three Dimensions, Energy &Technology Review, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 1993, pp. 9-16.

Max, Nelson, Barry Becker, and Roger Crawfis, Flow Volumes for Interactive Vector Field Visualization, presented at Visualization '93, Los Alamitos, CA, October 1993.

Becker B., Using MineSet for Knowledge Discovery , IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, July/Aug 1997. figures

Becker B., Kohavi, R., Sommerfield D., Visualizing the Simple Bayesian Classifier. Appears in the KDD 1997 Workshop on Issues in the Integration of Data Mining and Data Visualization. To appear as Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Sprinter Verlag

Becker, Barry, Volume Rendering for Relational Data, Proceedings of Information Visualization 1997. figures

Becker, B, " Visualizing Decision Table Classifiers ", to appear in the IEEE's Proceedings of Information Visualization 1998. figures

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