Innovations Seminar 2013

08 45

Registration & Coffee

09 30

Opening by Gerry Grenier (IEEE), chair of the STM Future Lab Committee

09 35

Morning Keynote and IEEE lecture: The Research Data Revolution

Moderated by: Gerry Grenier, IEEE

The Research Data Revolution
Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Research Data Management,

Johns Hopkins University 

Data has become a major topic of interest from all sectors of society with headlines such as “Data is the new oil” to assertions from McKinsey that data is the fourth factor of production. Within higher education, new forms of data intensive scholarship have already begun to transform research and learning. The “Research Data Revolution” will examine the implications of these developments for libraries and publishers especially as they relate to new forms of competition.

10 30

Refreshment break

11 00

Morning plenary: ePublishing evolutions

Moderated by: Dave Martinsen, ACS

Watson and the Journey to Cognitive Computing
Frank Stein, IBM
Today, many of our science, technical, and medical professionals can not keep up with the growing amount of new information being produced in the world.   The complication is that although we have ever faster computers, they haven’t been designed to process and understand this information which is mostly in human-consumable formats.  This means we’re not getting the full value out of our scientific, medical, and technical endeavors.
This talk will provide a brief overview of Watson as a cognitive computing exemplar, and of Cognitive Computing more generally. We will discuss some of the implications of this new technology, providing a basis to envision changes that will start impacting our world and to understand some of the benefits and challenges that cognitive computers will bring to the scientists and professionals in the fields that you support.

Source Data and other article enrichments

Thomas Lemberger, EMBO Journals

The aim of the EMBO SourceData project is to build tools that will allow journals to integrate data and structured biological metadata in published papers and to develop data-oriented methods to search the literature. 

Actionable Data - the Wolfram Approach

Matthew Day, Wolfram Research
Wolfram Research has created several actionable data technologies, particularly WolframAlpha.com and the Computable Document Format. The new focus is on enhancements that will greatly extend our ability to make all sorts data files readily actionable with minimal work from data producers or curators.

12 30

13 00

Lunch

14 00

14 15

Afternoon Keynote: e-Science and we-Science: Making citizen science work
Moderated by: Dave Smith (IET)
 
Lessons from the Zooniverse : Science with (nearly) a million collaborators
Chris Lintott, Researcher, Oxford Astrophysics and Principal Investigator, Zooniverse

The Zooniverse is the world’s most successful platform for citizen science - the involvement of non-professionals in the scientific enterprise. Zooniverse founder Chris Lintott will cover the highlights of six years of collaboration, including mysterious galaxy-sized gas clouds, unusual planets and a journey across the Serengeti, and explain the lessons for researchers and publishers alike in bringing science to such a large audience.

15 00

15 30

Refreshment break

16 00

Afternoon Plenary: e-Science, e-Research, e-Publishing
Moderated by: Howard Ratner, CHORUS
 
Text and Data Mining, discovering new patterns
Nicko Goncharoff, Digital Science
 

Wearable Computers: Future Fix-All or Fashion Faux Pas?
Heather Ruland Staines, SIPX
From Google Glass to the Samsung Gear, technology blogs and expos are all over wearable computing. Whether as extensions to our phones or as sensors to monitor our health or purchasing behavior, wearables are coming. Learn about how wearable computers are being tested in education and teaching contexts, what the latest initiatives are, and hear from a Glass Explorer about the potential and the perils of a computer on your face.

16 40

17 15

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