You are warmly invited to the following meeting, which is designed to advance collaboration among UB individuals and groups working on high-level challenges to the nation's information infrastructure. Please forward this invitation to potentially interested persons.
Date: October 8, 2012
Time: 4-8pm (includes reception and dinner buffet)
Venue: Westwood Country Club (Corner of Sheridan and N. Forest)The meeting is open to both students and faculty. It will consist of a series of short talks on current and planned research in areas such as defense, security and
healthcare informatics, together with discussion and dinner buffet. The goal is to identify existing expertise and lay the groundwork for the future.
Presentations will include:
Venu Govindaraju (UB Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors, Document Recognition and Retrieval for Medical Informatics Applications)
Lieutenant Colonel William Mandrick (US Army) and Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC): Military Ontology in Buffalo
Raj Sharman (Management Science and Systems, UB School of Management)
Barry Smith (UB Philosophy / NCOR): The Future of Ontology-Driven Science in Buffalo: From Infectious Disease to Counter-Insurgency
Moises Sudit (UB Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion)
Peter Winkelstein: UB's Institute for Healthcare Informatics
Organizers: Barry Smith and Moises Sudit
Sponsors: UB Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion, National Center for Ontological Research