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Joanne Begin forwarded message: > From: "CSHALS Conference" <announceme...@iscb.org> > Date: August 25, 2011 12:53:54 PM EDT > To: "Joanne Luciano" <jluci...@cs.rpi.edu> > Subject: Free ISCB Webinar: CSHALS - Computational Acceleration of Biomedical > Discovery, Sep 20, 2011 > > > > > ISCB is offering a FREE Webinar from the Conference on Semantics in > Healthcare and Life Sciences (CSHALS) series! Read below for full > information... > > When: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM EDT -- For your > local time, see www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc > using America/Boston as the "From" time zone. > > Register at http://cshals-webinar-1.eventbrite.com/ > NOTE: This is the registration site only. The actual location of the webinar > will be emailed to registrants closer to the event. > > Title: CSHALS Webinar: Computational Acceleration of Biomedical Discovery > > Details: > > Please join us for this free webinar reprising and updating Dr. Lawrence > Hunter's keynote address from CSHALS 2011. All you need to attend is a > computer, an Internet connection, and a free hour on Tuesday, September 20th > at 1pm EDT. > > Once registered for the event, you will be emailed a link to join the webinar > live. > > Abstract: The profusion of high-throughput instruments and the explosion of > new results in the scientific literature, particularly in molecular > biomedicine, is both a blessing and a curse to the bench researcher. Even > knowledgeable and experienced scientists can benefit from computational tools > that help navigate this vast and rapidly evolving terrain. However, effective > design and implementation of computational tools that genuinely facilitate > the generation of novel and significant scientific insights remains poorly > understood. In this talk, I will describe a set of efforts that combines > natural language processing for information extraction, graphical network > models for semantic data integration, and some novel user interface > approaches into a system that has recently played a pivotal role in making a > significant biomedical discovery. > > Biography: Dr. Lawrence Hunter is the Director of the Computational > Bioscience Program and of the Center for Computational Pharmacology at the > University of Colorado School of Medicine, and a Professor in the departments > of Pharmacology and Computer Science (Boulder). He received his Ph.D. in > computer science from Yale University in 1989, and then spent more than 10 > years at the National Institutes of Health, ending as the Chief of the > Molecular Statistics and Bioinformatics Section at the National Cancer > Institute. He inaugurated two of the most important academic bioinformatics > conferences, ISMB and PSB, and was the founding President of the > International Society for Computational Biology. Dr. Hunter's research > interests span a wide range of areas, from cognitive science to rational drug > design. His primary focus recently has been the integration of natural > language processing, knowledge representation and > machine learning techniques and their application to interpreting data > generated by high throughput molecular biology. > > > > Your Subscription: > > Change your subscription > > Unsubscribe > > > > > > > > Sent to: jluci...@cs.rpi.edu > > Unsubscribe > > ISCB > 9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0743, > La Jolla, CA 92093-0743 > USA
