UL's LITE Technology Center

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LAFAYETTE — There’s still plenty of work to do, but the Louisiana Immersive Technology Enterprise has made quick progress in the six months it’s been open, LITE’s executive director said Wednesday.

“I think we’re on the right track,” Executive Director Carolina Cruz said.

LITE offers public and private researchers an opportunity to use high-tech visualization venues — including a six-sided virtual reality cave — in order to better interpret data.

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It wasn't a typical Memorial Day for local breast radiologist Dr. Robert Lapidus, Medical Director of Women's Imaging Centre in Lafayette, the new breast diagnostic facility which is affiliated with Women's and Children's Hospital, or for researchers at the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprises (LITE) complex in Lafayette, Dr. Carolina Cruz-Neira, LITE's Executive Director and Chief Scientist, and Dr. Dirk Reiners, Assistant Professor of computer science of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Instead of attending a family outing, they were working with the world's preeminent figure in breast cancer diagnosis, Dr. Laszlo Tabar. The rest of the story

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  UL — Carolina Cruz-Neira has stepped down as the chief executive officer of the Louisiana Immersive Technologies Enterprise Center to focus on her duties as chief scientist, the LITE commission announced Wednesday.

Cruz-Neira was hired by the University of Louisiana at Lafayette as the center’s chief scientist in 2006 and agreed to temporarily serve in the dual role.

Henry Florsheim, the chief operating officer, will serve as the interim CEO.

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