About VACCINE
VACCINE's goal is to help this nation's 2.3 million extended homeland security personnel, including first-responders, perform their jobs more effectively by turning mass amounts of data into manageable information.
Turning massive data into actionable knowledge through innovative visual analytic techniques is vital to the mission of the Command, Control, and Interoperability (CCI) Division of The Department of Homeland Security, as well as all of the mission areas of DHS.
Learn More...VACCINE Anual Report - Year Three can now be viewed below
- VACCINE Period 3 Annual Report
- Addendum A-Presentations
- Addendum B-Publications
- Addendum C-Various Reports
Research
The overall goal of our research is to create innovative and effective integrated data and visual analytic environments-frameworks, methods, and software-that advance the start-of-the-art in analyzing massive, heterogeneous, incomplete, temporally evolving homeland security data for anticipating, detecting, and responding to DHS mission needs.
Learn More...Education
VACCINE's goal is to educate current homeland security stakeholders and the next generation of talent and enable them to make effective decisions from the mass of multisource, multimedia data they will face in their careers. Our educational initiatives span the entire career development pipline ranging from PK-12 programs through undergraduate and graduate level work, to professional education and training programs.
Learn More...Announcements
HS-STEM Career Development Program Fellowship Deadline Extended
The deadline for applications to the HS-STEM Career Development Program Fellowship (for Fall 2012) has been extended to Monday, February 6th, 2012. Go to http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/vaccine/education/graduate.php to find the application and more details about the program.
VACCINE Technology Enhances Student-Driven Learning Website
Students at Purdue University are developing their own learning website (www.projectrhea.org). Called “Rhea” after the flightless bird of the ratite family, the project began in 2007 under the initiative of Mimi Boutin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue and member of the VACCINE faculty research team. “Rhea was originally created because students felt their courses needed to be better connected to each other, and better connected to the real world,” says Prof. Boutin. “Student volunteers proposed to address this problem with a campus-wide wiki that could be used to share learning material created by students. Other tools were successively added to the website, such as a dropbox for electronic homework collection and a double-blind peer review system for homework and project grading,” she said. Read more.
Featured Projects
COE-Explorer
The COE Explorer is an information platform for viewing, exploring, and analyzing information about the DHS University Programs research network. Beyond providing a graph-based interactive visualization of this data, the scope of the Explorer project is now expanding to include a web-based infrastructure that will involve a whole array of visualization and analytics components.
USCG Excellence Award Fall 2011
The VACCINE Center (Visual Analytics for Command, Control and Interoperability Environments) at Purdue University has been awarded the Commander Atlantic Area’s Excellence Coin for their work with the U.S. Coast Guard District Nine (Great Lakes) and District one (Boston and New England).
VACCINE News
NSF Science of Interaction for Data and Visual Analytics Workshop
February 9, 2012
The principle goal of this two-day workshop is to define a research agenda for the "Science of Interaction" to support ubiquitous and collaborative analysis and discovery utilizing new, transparent interaction tools. The resulting agenda should seek
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February 8, 2012
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VACCINE Kickoff video
Overview
VACCINE is dedicated to creating methods and tools to analyze and manage vast amounts of information for all mission areas of homeland security.
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Partner Universities
- Florida International University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Washington
- Virginia Tech
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Indiana University
- Morgan State University
- Navajo Technical College
- Pennsylvania State University
- Purdue University
- Stanford University
- University of Houston, Downtown
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- University of Oxford, UK
- University of Stuttgart, Germany
- Simon Fraser University, Canada
- Swansea University, UK
- University of British Columbia, Canada
- Carleton University, Canada
- Dalhousie University, Canada
- University of Manitoba
- Ontario Institute of Technology
- University of Victoria, Canada
- University of Calgary, Canada
VACCINE, LLC Members
Motorola Solutions, Inc (inaugural member)
Featured VACCINE Student
SungYe Kim: Degree/Research Interest - Ph. D. in Mobile Visual Analytics, Information Visualization
2010 SURF Summer Graduate Student Mentor Award Recipient
Graduates Spring 2012
Contact us:
Purdue University
500 Central Drive #226
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2022
Email: vaccine@purdue.edu
- Phone: (765) 496-3747
- Fax: (765) 494-1028












