BackVisitors to Knoesis
Knoesis hosts many foreign students and faculty usually
during the summer. Details of some of our past visitors follow
Summer Exchange Program Participants
Technical Talks
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Dr. Daniel Gruhl - IBM Research - Almaden, San Jose, CA
Semantic Supercomputing
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 2:00pm EST
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
365 Joshi Research Center
Dayton, OH 45435
ABSTRACT: Unstructured information, and specifically text, can be a source of surprising insights about a person, a community or even the world. These insights, however, are buried in information created for other purposes. Our research explores what kind of insights we can derive if we have today's super computing like resources available to employ on this task. The result was a number of applications that help find interesting insights into the information hidden in these corpora. This talk will cover a sampling of these with some insights on what non-traditional tasks text can be used for.
Talk
Bio: Dr. Daniel Gruhl is a researcher at IBM's Almaden Research Center. He earned his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2000, with thesis work on distributed text analytics systems. His interests include stegonography (visual, audio, text and database), machine understanding, user modeling and very large scale text analytics.
Dr. Gruhl works in the Healthcare Informatics group and was the chief architect for the WebFountain semantic super computer.
- Dr Olivier Bodenreider, MD, PhD-
National Institutes of Health
Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine Seminar
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 11:00 am EST
Wright State University
3640 Colonel Glenn Highway
292 Joshi Research Center
Dayton, OH 45435
Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine
From Biomedical Informatics to Translational Research
ABSTRACT: Review examples of successful biomedical data integration projects in which ontologies play an important role, including the integration of genomic data based on Gene Ontology annotations, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project, and semantic mashups created by the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences community. Challenges to data integration in biomedicine will also be discussed.
BIO: Dr. Bodenreider is a Research Scientist at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine, NIH. His research interests include terminology, knowledge representation and ontology in the biomedical domain, both from a theoretical perspective and in their application to natural language understanding, reasoning, information visualization and integration. Dr. Bodenreider is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He received a M.D. degree from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Nancy, France in 1993. Before joining NLM in 1996, he was an assistant professor for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Nancy, France, Medical School. - Frederick Maier
BIO:Fred was raised on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and studied philosophy at Spring Hill College, a Jesuit liberal arts College in Mobile, and later at Tulane University in New Orleans. He then moved to The University of Georgia, obtaining a master's degree in AI and a PhD in computer science. His primary research has been in knowledge representation and nonmonotonic reasoning. For his doctoral dissertation, he developed formal semantics for Donald Nute's defeasible logic and analyzed defeasible logic's relationship to other formalisms. At Wright State University, Fred is working with Prof. Pascal Hitzler on paraconsistent and distributed reasoning with description logics. In part, this continues research begun while he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.
