Old News from Aviz

	Petra Isenberg joins Aviz.
	Xiujun Li joins Aviz.
	Pierre-Luc Hémery joins Aviz.
	Caroline Appert, Stéphane Huot, Pierre Dragicevic and Michel Beaudouin-Lafon receive the best paper award at the IHM '09 conference for their paper on the FlowStates toolkit.
	Jean-Daniel Fekete demonstrates the ScatterDice system to the CEO of Microsoft Steve Ballmer and the French Minister of Research Valérie Pécresse [video].
	Nadia Boukhelifa joins Aviz.
	Evelyne Lutton joins Aviz.
	Jiacheng Li joins Aviz.
	Hélène Milome joins Aviz.
	Jean-Daniel Fekete interviewed in the February issue of IEEE Computer: Users Take a Close Look at Visual Analytics (free link here.)
	Fadia Azaiez joins Aviz as a PhD student.
	Fanny Chevalier interviewed by France Info [listen] on new graph navigation techniques (in French).
	Nathalie Henry interviewed in the magazine Les sciences du numérique (in French).
	Fanny Chevalier, Pierre Dragicevic and Jean-Daniel Fekete participated to the Science Fair at LRI, featuring the edition of the Social Network of Harry Potter.
	Niklas Elmqvist, Pierre Dragicevic and Jean-Daniel Fekete received the Best Paper award at the InfoVis 2008 Conference for their paper Rolling the Dice: Multidimensional Visual Exploration using Scatterplot Matrix Navigation.
	Julie Stromer joins Aviz.
	Wael Khemiri joins Aviz as a PhD student.
	Tomer Moscovich joins Aviz.
	Nathalie Henry successfully defended her PhD thesis « Exploring Large Social Networks with Matrix-Based Representations ».
	Nathalie Henry accepted a Researcher position at the VIBE team of Microsoft Research in Redmond, USA.
	Niklas Elmqvist accepted an Assistant Professor position at the School of ECE at Purdue University in West Lafayette, USA.
	Pierre Dragicevic interviewed by the Radio Suisse Romande about DimP [listen in French].
	Anastasia Bezerianos and Petra Isenberg are visiting Aviz for one month.
	Fanny Chevalier joins Aviz.
	Aviz members to present 3 full papers at CHI 2008.
	Stéphane Descorps-Declère joins Aviz.
	Launching of WikipediaViz, a complete archive version of the French Wikipedia with visualizations for estimating article maturity (in French).
	Jean-Daniel Fekete interviewed by France Culture [listen] and Libération on Wikipedia reliability issues and the WikipediaViz project (articles in French).
	Nathalie Henry and Jean-Daniel Fekete received the Brian Shackel Award at the INTERACT 2007 Conference for their paper MatLink: Enhanced Matrix Visualization for Analyzing Social Networks.
	Pierre Dragicevic joins Aviz.
	Jean-Daniel Fekete creates Aviz.