Brown Bag Presentation
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Brown Bag Presentation
Noon-1 p.m.
Tuesday, Feb. 4
Ehrlicher Room
411 West Hall
The School of Information presents Terry Weymouth, associate research
scientist in EECS, speaking on "Developing Usable Software Tools to Serve
People and Provide Access to Information."
Weymouth says, "The really dynamic and exciting research in the use of
computers occurs where "the rubber meets the road" -- not in the isolated
laboratories but in software projects that actually work for people. For
the past 15 years I have been building software systems which serve people
by enabling research, diagnosis, and environmental interaction. These range
from systems for computer-vision research, through image-database systems
and robot-control systems, to systems to support geographically distributed
groups in the use of remote instruments and medical diagnosis. In all of
this work, I have made connections among diverse disciplines to create
usable software. I will present an analytical chronology (e.g., a whirlwind
tour) of these efforts to highlight my connections with the School of
Information: computer-supported medical image interpretation, reasoning
about maps for indoor robot navigation, context-based accessing of images
in an image database, and computer support of geographically distributed
science and medicine -- with lots of pictures. I will conclude with my
vision of where we can go next with computing in service of people."
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