james r. eagan phd student and graduate research assistant georgia institute of technology 801 atlantic drive atlanta, ga 30332-0280 eaganj+gradccgatechedu office: ii lab -- 342a, technology square research building

   calvin : i think we have got enough information now, don't you?  
   hobbes : all we have is one "fact" that you made up.  
   calvin : that's plenty. by the time we add an introduction, a few 
            illustrations and a conclusion, it'll look like a graduate thesis.

as dogbert says, "people are getting stupider everyday, relatively speaking. the complexity of the world is increasing geometrically, but your ability to learn is at the same slow trickle it has always been. information is gushing toward your brain like a firehose aimed at a teacup."

my research takes an angle on visualization of information, that is, effectively providing a visual mapping to data that has no inherant visual representation. please take a look at some of my recent work:

• graph manipulation[ coming sooneventually ]
• network visualization
• software visualization
• algorithm visualization

• Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software (Tech Note) J. Eagan, M. J. Harrold, J. A. Jones, and J. Stasko Information Visualization October 2001, pp33-36.
• JHAVÉ -- An Environment to Actively Engage Students in Web-based Algorithm Visualizations. Thomas Naps, James Eagan, and Laura Norton Proceedings of the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, March 2000, pp109-113. [ abstract ]

• Interacting with Transit-Stub Networks. James Eagan, John Stasko, and Ellen Zegura InfoVis 2003, IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, October 2003. [ pdf ]

• Visually Encoding Program Test Information to Find Faults in Software. James Eagan, Mary Jean Harrold, James A. Jones, and John Stasko GVU Technical Report GIT-GVU-01-09, June 2001. [ abstract ] [ pdf ] [ ps ]