Information Infrastructure Collaboration Meeting

• Date: October 8, 2012
• Time: 4-8pm
• Venue: Westwood Country Club (corner of Sheridan and N. Forest Roads, 2 miles from UB North Campus)

This meeting is designed to advance collaboration among UB individuals and groups working on high-level challenges to the nation's information infrastructure.

The meeting is open to both students and faculty. Please write to Sylvia Epolito if you wish to attend. 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

• Alan Ruttenberg (Oral Diagnostic Sciences / UB Clinical and Translational Data Exchange): Buffalo Semantic Web

• 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

Sponsors: Center for Multisource Information Fusion, National Center for Ontological Research

Organizers: Barry Smith and Moises Sudit