Completed Dissertations

At UCSB, the following graduate students who worked closely with the ADL Project have completed their degrees or are nearing completion.

1. Beattu, Morris L., (MS, April 1997 expected), ``Dimensionality reduction using multi-dimensional scaling for image search''.
2. Ma, Wei-Ying (PhD, April 1997 expected), ``A visual thesaurus for content based search and retrieval of images''.
3. Srinivasan, Ashok, (PhD, 1996), ``Computational Issues in the Solution of Liquid Crystalline Polymer Flow Problems''.

At SUNY Buffalo, the following theses were completed as part of ADL:

1. Leitner, Michael, (MA 1996), ``The Impact of Data Quality Displays on Spatial Decision Support'' (dissertation defended 14 October, 1996; hired May 1996 as Assistant Professor at Louisiana State University)
2. Plewe, Brandon, (MA, March 1997 expected), ``Cartographic and GIS Representations of Gradation.''
3. Skupin, Andre (MA, April 1997, expected), ``Geographic Concepts and the Visualization of Electronic Information Spaces''.