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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NIH BCIG Seminar: "The
New Umbrella Group for Technical Special Interest Groups" NIH BCIG Seminar: "The New Umbrella Group
for Technical Special Interest Groups" The focus of this session will be the formation of an umbrella group for all NIH Special Interest Groups (SIGs) that provide scientific and technological support for NIH research. These groups play an important role in the NIH mission and are perceived by some to be underrepresented and underappreciated. Perhaps this perception could be addressed and alleviated by the formation of this proposed umbrella group. One advantage of such an umbrella is that funds for shared speakers would be available. Another advantage would be the possibility of cross fertilization of cultures and ideas among the represented SIGS in the group. This latter idea certainly dovetails well with the NIH Roadmap multidisciplinary team theme. Please come and share your ideas about how to form this umbrella group for the benefit of the NIH mission. Bio Mohammad Al-Ubaydli graduated
and trained as a medical doctor and computer programmer at Cambridge University.
He is the author of the book "Handheld Computers for Doctors"
and is on the Executive Committees of the British Medical Informatics
Association, the Royal Society of Medicine, and the Journal of Surgery.
He has co-founded Medical Futures, Ltd, a company that explains intellectual
property issues to doctors; Medical Approaches, a non-profit organization
that provides free electronic medical textbooks; and Idiopathic Publishing,
a publishing company. He is currently a visiting research fellow at the
NLM, working with the NCBI's BookShelf team to develop tools to support
authors who contribute clinical and research textbooks. More information, visit the BCIG web site www.nih-bcig.org, check the on-line NIH Record http://calendar.nih.gov/cgi-bin/calendar or call or write Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman jdeleo@nih.gov, (301)-496-3848. To have your name added to the BCIG list server, send Jim an e-mail note with your name, e-mail address and telephone number. BCIG is always looking for good brainstorming facilitators, tutorial instructors and speakers. If you would like to serve BCIG in one of these roles, and/or if you can suggest someone who could, please let Jim DeLeo know.
NIH BCIG Seminar: "Tutorial:
Heads Up Analysis versus High Dimensionality Problems" NIH BCIG Seminar: "Tutorial: Heads Up
Analysis versus High Dimensionality Problems" To those with data and the will to decode it there are few mysteries. Buried within piles of numbers, masked by rote statistical analyses, and hiding behind the sheer number of factors involved, however, the true nature of many processes – from semiconductor fabrication to insulin manufacture and disease progression– has long defied human comprehension. This provokes many engineering and scientific disciplines to simply turn computers on, shovel numbers in, and extract answers applicable only over a narrow range as well as rigidly restricted domain. In effect, we have become prisoners of our own analytical tools and cannot think beyond the numerical, computer driven confines of their operation. Hence apparent yield limits in pharmaceutical processing, inspections and measurements which must be left in place against utterly unpredictable excursions that are far from unknown in semiconductor fabrication, and unexpected boons from ostensibly erroneous actions in many scenarios are left as imponderables, to be tolerated but never understood. The key to escaping such a status quo, which seemingly eats resources – ever larger data streams and seldom tapped databases – yet yields few answers, is to keep the computers but re-engage our minds. Since the primary conduit of information into the human brain, however, is through the eyes, this requires effective data visualization to comprehend and - leveraging our innate pattern recognition capabilities – conceptualize as well as solve complex problems. Parallel coordinates are the keystone to achieving and implementing this “heads up” form of analytical thinking… where anyone with a pair of eyes can contribute. Hence our tutorial will focus on they and the synergistic technologies of multi-dimensional visualization and Geometric Process Control that have been spawned in the solution of ostensibly complex problems drawn from a spectrum of disciplines. Using the vehicle of real, multi-dimensional datasets the underpinnings of entirely visual analysis will be explained in detail and illustrated through solution of high dimensionality problems as well as exploration of life sciences data. Further, those results will be extended by engaging entirely geometric (“no equations”) modeling to detail and demonstrate the capabilities of such technology for response surface visualization, fault detection in addition to diagnosis and reaction, and process control. Come prepared with an open mind – but don’t expect to see many equations… although financial market applications will be detailed as time permits. Bio After taking Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees of Mechanical Engineering as well as a Master of Computer Science from the University of Virginia Mr. McCafferty cut his teeth in semiconductors with equipment and process control - including adaptive control implementation - at IBM, Burlington. This was followed by assignment to the Corporate Staff, before he finished his career with the Company managing efforts to optimize circuit design against the effects of manufacturing variability. From there he spent a half-decade in wide-ranging consulting assignments for a subsidiary of Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN), which eventually became part of Brooks Automation, specializing in semiconductor and pattern recognition assignments. Mr. McCafferty now operates the North American branch of Curvaceous Software Limited, a UK technology firm specializing in multi-dimensional data visualization and analysis combined with Geometric Process Control and alarm management, having started up the Company’s U.S. operations in 2000. Robert H. McCafferty More information, visit the BCIG web site www.nih-bcig.org, check the on-line NIH Record http://calendar.nih.gov/cgi-bin/calendar or call or write Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman jdeleo@nih.gov, (301)-496-3848. To have your name added to the BCIG list server, send Jim an e-mail note with your name, e-mail address and telephone number. BCIG is always looking for good brainstorming facilitators, tutorial instructors and speakers. If you would like to serve BCIG in one of these roles, and/or if you can suggest someone who could, please let Jim DeLeo know.
NIH BCIG Seminar: "What
Can Artificial Intelligence Technology Do for Biomedical Informatics?"
NIH BCIG Seminar: "What Can Artificial
Intelligence Technology Do for Biomedical Informatics?" More information, visit the BCIG web site www.nih-bcig.org, check the on-line NIH Record http://calendar.nih.gov/cgi-bin/calendar or call or write Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman jdeleo@nih.gov, (301)-496-3848. To have your name added to the BCIG list server, send Jim an e-mail note with your name, e-mail address and telephone number. BCIG is always looking for good brainstorming facilitators, tutorial instructors and speakers. If you would like to serve BCIG in one of these roles, and/or if you can suggest someone who could, please let Jim DeLeo know.
NIH BCIG Seminar: "Minds,
Brains and Sciences" by author John R. Searle NIH BCIG Seminar: "Minds, Brains and Sciences"
by author John R. Searle More information, visit the BCIG web site www.nih-bcig.org, check the on-line NIH Record http://calendar.nih.gov/cgi-bin/calendar or call or write Jim DeLeo, BCIG Chairman jdeleo@nih.gov, (301)-496-3848. To have your name added to the BCIG list server, send Jim an e-mail note with your name, e-mail address and telephone number. BCIG is always looking for good brainstorming facilitators, tutorial instructors and speakers. If you would like to serve BCIG in one of these roles, and/or if you can suggest someone who could, please let Jim DeLeo know.
|| Wednesday, April 28, 2004|| "CyberYeast: Computational
Models of Cell The Center for the Study of Biological
Complexity is pleased to announce a seminar by Dr. John J. Tyson.
Dr. Tyson is a University Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Biology of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Please join us at Dr. Tyson's seminar!
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