Emerging Analytics Center

Jan P. Springer, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science, has been named director of the George W. Donaghey Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. read more >

A University of Arkansas at Little Rock professor has received a $10,000 Google grant that will help provide free, cloud-based cybersecurity labs for junior high and high school students in Arkansas. read more >

Carolina Cruz-Neira, the director of UA Little Rock’s Emerging Analytics Center, describes how she and her team stay ahead of the curve in virtual reality. read more >

Virtual reality isn’t just for gamers anymore. An architecture firm, a construction company and a furniture dealer in central Arkansas, for example, are using the technology to offer their clients a better experience. read more >

Carolina Cruz-Neira of UA Little Rock and Dr. T. Glenn Pait of UAMS have devised "Anatomical Eyes" to train doctors, the military, students and more. read more >

Carolina Cruz-Neira’s visualization technology lab in the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock is a playground for the imagination. And the virtual reality that unfolds within it is helping envision better companies and cities — both modern and ancient — and even train better medical students. read more >

Last week, UALR's Emerging Analytics Center showcased its two VR student projects during Supercomputing 2015 (SC15), an international conference for high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis held in Austin, Texas. read more >

Carolina Cruz-Neira, director of the Emerging Analytics Center at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, promises a show people will remember when her team hosts an open house on Oct. 16-17 to showcase the latest virtual reality technology. read more >

Humans are digitizing every aspect of life, translating every thought, every endeavor into something that can be read on a computer screen. This act of translation is creating infinite bits of new information — big data, to use the phrase popular in the world of technology. read more >