VISUALIZATION

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been recognized for transferring technologies that treat and cure cancer, uniquely analyze massive sets of data, neutralize toxic chemicals from the environment and increase surgical implant success rates. The Federal Laboratory Consortium announced today that it is honoring PNNL with four 2006 Excellence in Technology Transfer Awards for the laboratory’s development and commercialization of bioactive thin-film coatings for surgical implants, a brachytherapy seed cancer treatment process, Starlight information visualization system software, and SAMMS, a process for removing mercury and other toxic chemicals from the environment. Starlight is being used by nearly 40 organizations, including some Fortune 500 companies. Businesses and other organizations can use the information visualization tool to save millions of dollars by uniquely accessing and interpreting large amounts of information. Starlight is a information technology that expedites knowledge discovery and strategic decision-making by enabling integrated visual analysis of large, complex, dynamic information collections. Starlight can integrate many different data types and formats, perform high-speed, high-efficiency analysis, and display the results graphically so that the relationships among the data and their implications can be quickly and easily understood. This flexibility enables Starlight to address a wide range of problems that used to be difficult or impossible to interpret. Starlight was originally developed by PNNL for the U.S. intelligence community.