Information Infrastructure Collaboration Meeting

• Date: October 8, 2012
• Time: 4-8pm
• Venue: Westwood Country Club (corner of Sheridan and N. Forest)

To advance collaboration among UB institutions working on high-level challenges to the nation's information infrastructure, we are organizing a meeting and reception for all interested persons, 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 sessions and a dinner buffet. Participation is free for those who register in advance by writing to phismith@buffalo.edu

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 / NCOR): The Future of Ontology-Driven Science in Buffalo
• Moises Sudit (UB Center for Multi-Source Information Fusion)
• Peter Winkelstein UB's Institute for Healthcare Informatics

Organizers: Barry Smith and Moises Sudit