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. 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.

Schedule

• 4:00 Registration
• 4:05 Introduction by Barry Smith (UB Philosophy / NCOR) and Moises Sudit (CMIF)
• 4:15 Barry Smith: Ontology in Buffalo: An Overview
• 4:25 Discussion

Military and Technology Applications 4.30 Chris Renschler (UB Geography / NCGIA): Geo-Spatial Project Management 4.40 Raj Sharman (Management Science and Systems): Information Assurance and Extreme Events 4.50 Ronald Rudnicki (CUBRC): Military Ontology in Buffalo 5.00 William Mandrick (US Army): Warfighter Ontology 5:10 Discussion

Medical Applications 5:20 Peter Winkelstein (IHI): The UB Institute for Healthcare Informatics 5.30 Venu Govindaraju (UB Center for Unified Biometrics and Sensors): Document Recognition and Retrieval for Medical Informatics 5:40 Alan Ruttenberg (Oral Diagnostic Sciences / UB Clinical and Translational Data Exchange): The Buffalo Semantic Web 5:50 Dicussion

'Please write to Barry Smith if you wish to attend.