North-East Visualization & Analytics Center
The North-East Visualization and Analytics Center began in 2005 with a grant from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). PNNL leads the Department of Homeland Security's National Visualization and Analytics Center, or NVAC, which is bringing academic expertise to the nation's efforts to discover information that may warn officials of a terrorist attack. The Penn State led North-East Visualization and Analytic Center (NEVAC) is one of five Regional Visualization and Analytics Centers (RVACs) that are now part of the NVAC Consortium.
NEVAC is coordinated through Penn State's GeoVISTA Center, and includes collaborators from the Department of Geography, the College of Information Sciences and Technology and the Department of Film-Video and Media Studies, as well as from Drexel University's College of Information Science and Technology in Philadelphia. NEVAC also includes partners from the private and government sectors.
The fundamental scientific goal of NEVAC is to better understand how individuals and teams use information technology to analyze complex information, build knowledge, and make decisions - then to use this understanding to develop information technologies that enable these processes.
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