2008 Events:

May 22nd: Author Neil Johnson, is coming to discuss his book, “Two’s Company, Three is Complexity”
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MAY 8 LECTURE “Irresponsible Practices in Technical Professions: Heuristics for Leading the Change” Dev Raheja, speaker

APR 24 BOOK CLUB “Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We believe We Know” Paul Watzlawick, editor
- view the seminar archive - Part 1
- view the seminar archive - Part 2

APR 10 LECTURE “Toward Human Level Machine Intelligence – Is It Achievable?” Lotfi Zadeh, speaker
- view the seminar archive

MAR 27 BOOK CLUB: “Introducing Artificial Intelligence” by Henry Brighton and Howard Selina
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MAR 13 LECTURE “Application of Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning to Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Modeling and Drug Administration” Adam E. Gaweda, speaker
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FEB 28 BOOK CLUB “I Am a Strange Loop” by Douglas Hofstadter (as reviewed by BCIG volunteers)
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FEB 14 LECTURE “Predictive Learning, Induction and Philosophy of Science” Vladimir Cherkassky, speaker
- view the seminar archive

2007 Events:

NOV 30 BCIG Brainstorming Session: “Biomedical Computing on the Internet” Francesco Masulli and Jim DeLeo, facilitators 11:00 to 12:00 a.m.

NOV 29 BCIG Speaker Event: "Biclustering Bioinformatic Data Sets Using a Possibilistic Approach"
Francesco Masulli, Ph.D., University of Genova
3:00 to 4:30 pm
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NOV 15 BCIG Brainstorming: “Is It Possible to Use Computer Methods to Get the Information a Biopsy Provides without Performing a Biopsy?" - Jim DeLeo
3:30 to 5:00 p.m

NOV 8 BCIG Speaker Event: "10 Guiding Principles for Managing Data: How the Azyxxi Medical System was developed at MedStar"
Mark Smith, M.D., MedStar
3:00 to 4:30 pm
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NOV 1 BCIG Book Club Event: *Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine” (Author Josh Hall will be present.) by Josh Storrs Hall
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
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OCT 11 BCIG Speaker Event: “Pattern Profile Classification in Multivariate Data: Diagnosis and Bioinformatics Applications”
Judy Dayhoff
3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
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SEP 27 BCIG Book Club Event: “How Doctors Think” by Jerome Groopman
5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
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SEP 13 BCIG Speaker Event: “Clinical Data Mining: Exploring Medical Data for Trends, Patterns and Classification”
Augie Turano
3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
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June 28, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable" Mind” by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Facilitators: A panel of volunteers will review the book.
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June 14, 2007 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SEMINAR: “Semantic Medline: Advanced Technologies for Biomedical Information Management”
Thomas Rindflesch, Ph.D., NLM
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May 24, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind” by Eric R. Kandel
Facilitators: A panel of NIH staff volunteers will review the book
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May 10, 2007 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SEMINAR: “How to Build a National Diverse-User Health Information Network Quickly and Inexpensively”
John Walsh, DQS Global, Inc.
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April 26, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything,” by Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams
Facilitators: A panel of volunteers will review the book
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April 12, 2007 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SEMINAR: “Plausible Neural Network – an intelligent self-organized neural network system”
Speaker: Yuan Yan Chen, Ph.D., PNN Technologies, USA
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March 22, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “Thought as a System,” by David Bohm
Facilitators:Jim DeLeo, Carl Leonard, Nada Vydelingum, Chuck Selden, David Stiles

March 8, 2007 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SEMINAR: “Data is Data ... Or Is It?”
Speaker: Julie Hartigan, Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Teradata Government Systems, a division of NCR
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February 22, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “Adrenaline and the Inner World,” by David Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D.
Facilitators: David Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D.
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February 8, 2007 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
BCIG SPEAKER EVENT: “A New Frontier in Computation --- Computation with Information Described In Natural Language”
Speaker: Dr. Lotfi Zadeh
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January 25, 2007 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing,” by Frank T. Vertosick, M.D.
Facilitators: Frank T. Vertosick, M.D.
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2006 Events:

November 16, 2006 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
LECTURE: “Networks in the Service of Health Care”
Speaker: Michael Ackerman, Ph.D., NLM
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November 9, 2006 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
TUTORIAL: "Global and Local Alignment of Protein Domains"
Instructor: Maricel Kann, Ph.D

November 2, 2006 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Biomedical Computing at the NIH – a wide angle view”
FACILITATOR: Jim Deleo, NIH Clinical Center

October 31, 2006 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
SPECIAL SESSION: "Multidimensional Visualization and Some Applications” (Subtitle: “How to become a Multidimensional Detective”)
SPEAKER: Alfred Inselberg, Ph.D., School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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October 26 5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “When Humans Forgot How to Think: Emergence of Machina Sapiens,” by Kazem Sadegh-zadeh, M.D.
Facilitators: Kazem Sadegh-zadeh, M.D., author (from Germany via webcast) and G. William Moore, M.D., Ph.D.. translator of “When Mankind Forgot How to Think” (German to English)

October 19 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SPEAKER EVENT: "Techniques and Applications in Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management. Some case studies"
Speaker: Bob J.A. Schijvenaars, Ph.D., Collexis
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October 12 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
TUTORIAL: “Quantitative in Situ Proteomic Tissue Analysis”
Instructor: Marissa Dolled-Filehart, Ph.D., HistoRx
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October 5 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
BRAINSTORMING: "Scientific Integrative Medicine: From Systems Biology to Disease Pathophysiology"
Facilitator: David Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D., NINDS

September 28 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.
BOOK CLUB: “Imitation of Life: How Biology Is Inspiring Computing,” by Nancy Forbes Facilitator: Nancy Forbes, author of “Imitation of Life”
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September 21 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
SPEAKER EVENT: ""Computer Models of Stress, Allostatic Load, and Chronic Degenerative Diseases."
Speaker: David Goldstein, M.D., Ph.D, NINDS
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September 14 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
TUTORIAL: “Effect of Background Correction, Normalisation and Summary Comparisons on the Identification of Differently Expressed Transcripts in Microarray Analysis”
Instructor: Monika Ray, Washington University
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September 7 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: "Synthetic Gene Design: good practice, poor theory"
Facilitators: Steve Freeland, Ph.D., UMBC

June 29 5:10 – 7:30 p.m. SOCIAL: Dinner at Delhi Dhaba and Movie - An Inconvenient Truth

June 22 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. BOOK CLUB: “Collapse: How Society’s Choose to Fail or Succeed,” by Jared Diamond
Presenters: BCIG Volunteers coordinated by Kim Thompson, Washington Metro Area Transit Authority

June 15 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. SPEAKER EVENT: "Sciware - A Solution for Providing Scientific Software to NIH researchers.”
Speaker: Jim Sullivan, NIH-CIT
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June 8 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. TUTORIAL: “Bridging the Gap between Biology and Computation: Microarray Analysis from Multiple Sources and Different Platform Generations”
Instructor: Louise Showe, Ph.D., Wistar Institute
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June 1 3:00 - 4:30 pm BRAINSTORMING: “NIH/FAES Biomedical Computing Courses”
Facilitators: Constance Noguchi, Ph.D., FAES Dean, and Krishna Balakrishnan, Ph.D., FAES Exec. Dir..

May 25, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
BOOK CLUB: “Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origins,” by Robert Hazen
Facilitator: Author Robert Hazen, Ph.D., George Mason University
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May 18, 3:00 – 4:30 pm
SPEAKER EVENT: "Synthetic Gene Design: Motivation, Challenges and Progress"
Speaker: Stephen J. Freeland, Ph.D., University of Maryland, Baltimore County

May 11, 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
TUTORIAL: “Appropriate Use of Statistics for Big-Data Projects”
Instructor: Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D., NCCAM
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May 4, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: "What Can We Do with an Artificial Neocortex at the NIH?"
(a more focused continuation of the April 2006 BCIG “On Intelligence” Book Club Meeting dialogue)
Facilitators: Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp. and Jim DeLeo, NIH Clinical Center

April 27 5:30 – 7:30 pm
BOOK CLUB: “On Intelligence,” by Jeff Hawkins
Facilitators: BCIG volunteers will review the book and Jeff Hawkins may be with us via webcast

April 20 3:00 – 4:30 pm
SPEAKER EVENT: "Cyberinfrastructure for Biodefense: Bioinformatics Resources & Networks for Development of Countermeasures".
Speaker: Dr Oswald Crasta, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute
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April 13
No BCIG tutorial in recognition of the First Day of Passover

April 6 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: “NIH’s Podcasting Needs - Addressed”
Facilitator: Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp.

March 30 5:30 – 7:30 pm
SOCIAL: “Office Space” (a very funny movie with strong language) and (free) pizza, soft drinks, and water
Hosts: Carl Leonard and Jim DeLeo

March 23 5:30 – 7:30 pm
BOOK CLUB: “Blink” by Malcom Gladwell
Facilitators: (BCIG member volunteers)

March 16 3:00 – 4:30 pm
SPEAKER EVENT: “PharmGKB: is sharing pharmacogenomics information worthwhile?”
Speaker: Russ B. Altman, MD, PhD, Stanford University
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March 9 3:00 – 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: “An Introduction to Principal Component Analysis”
Instructor: Alan E. Berger, Naval Surface Warfare Center
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March 2 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: “NIH’s Podcasting Needs”
Facilitator: Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp.

February 23      5:30 – 7:30 pm
BOOK CLUB: “The Singularity Is Near,” Ray Kurzweil (author)
Facilitators: (Nine of BCIG’s most intelligent and best-looking members).

February 16      3:00 – 4:30 pm
SPEAKER EVENT: "Some Examples of Computational Biology and Biostatistics in Cancer Research"
Speaker: Mark Reimers, Senior Research Fellow, NCI
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February 9        3:00 – 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: “Introduction to Evolutionary Learning”
Instructor: Ben Goertzel, Ph.D., Novamente LLC
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February 2       3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: ”Is It Time to End the BCIG?”
Facilitator: Carl Leonard, Lired Corp.

January 26, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Book Club: "The Google Story" facilitated by author David Vise
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2005 Events:

November 17th, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
SEMINAR: Systematic Acceleration of Radical Discovery and Innovation in Science and Technology
Dr. Ronald Kostoff, Office of Naval Research
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November 10, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: "Use of Bayesian Networks to Classify Complex Pathology"
INSTRUCTOR: John Eberhardt, DecisionQ Corporation
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November 3rd, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Hot Computer Science Topics Relevant to the NIH"
FACILITATORS: Regular BCIG participants Phil Kalina, Jim DeLeo, and others

October 27th, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
BCIG Book Club - "Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams," Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister

October 20th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG SPEAKER EVENT: "Accuracy and Interpretability using Support Vector Machines"
Ravi Mallela, Ph.D, Founder, Equbits
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October 19th, 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
NIH Research Festival Symposia Session II
Multidisciplinary Biomedical Data Mining
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October 6th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BRAINSTORMING: "Hot Computer Science Topics Relevant to the NIH"
Facilitator: Jim DeLeo, NIH CC, et al

September 29th, 5:30 - 7:30
Social:  Movie ("Fast, Cheap & out of Control") & (free) Pizza

September 22nd, 5:30 - 7:30
Book Club: "Life Evolving" by de Dove

September 15th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Science and the Semantic Web
Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
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September  8th 3:00 - 4:30
Tutorial: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms with Industrial Applications
J. David Schaffer
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September  1st 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Online Collaboration Tools for Biomedical Data Mining"

July 28th, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
BCIG BOOK CLUB MEETING: Free Software for Busy People," author and facilitator Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D.

July 21st  3:00 - 4:30 pm
Labmatrix: Integrating clinical and laboratory data for translational research studies
Ethel Rubin, Ph.D. BioFortis, Inc.
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July 14th, 2005 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG TUTORIAL: "Information Extraction"
INSTRUCTOR: Victor J. Pollara, Ph.D., Mitretek Systems
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July 7th, 2005
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "BCIG's Successes with Multidisciplinary Biomedical Data Mining"
FACILITATORS: Jim DeLeo

June 30th, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
SOCIAL: Movies and Dinner

June 23rd, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m
Bookclub: "Micromotives and Macrobehavior," by Thomas C. Schelling
Facilitators: Kim Thompson, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and Lynne Oetjen-Gerdes, Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner

June 16th,  3:00 - 4:30 pm
Medical Error Reduction through Patient Biometric Identification
Michael L. Matyas, Chief Technical Officer, Management Systems Designers, Inc
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June 9th 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial: "Interdisciplinary Data and Knowledge Integration"
Dr. Olga Brazhnik, CIT
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June 2nd 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Brainstorming: "Data Mining as an NIH Resource - Part 2"
Coordinator: Carl Leonard
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

May 26 5:30 - 7:30 pm.
Book Club: "Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins," by Steve Olson Facilitator: Steve Olson (author) - Add to Outlook

May 19th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Seminar: The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS): From terminology integration to information integration
Olivier Bodenreider, NLM

May 12th, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: "Using the Gene Ontology and Machine Learning Tools to Guide Microarray Data Analysis"
INSTRUCTOR: Ben Goertzel, Ph.D., Biomind LLC

May 5th, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Let's Create a Biomedical Text Data Mining Team as an NIH Resource"
FACILITATOR: David Mayer, Altum, Inc.

April 28th 5:30 - 7:30
Book Club: "Leonardo's Laptop, " Ben Shneiderman
Facilitator: Ben Shneiderman
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

April 21st 3:00 - 4:30 pm
"Innovation Networks, Cross-Functional Teams and the NIH Roadmap"
Speaker: J.P. Auffrett, Ph.D., George Mason University

April 14th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: "Neo-ROC Intelligence in Biomedical Decision Making "
Instructor: Jim DeLeo, NIH Clinical Center

April 7, 2005 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Brainstorming: "Data Mining as an NIH Resource"
Coordinator: Carl Leonard
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

March 31, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.
Social: Dinner at Maggiano's in Chevy Chase
Organizer: Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp
Location: Maggiano's Restaurant, Chevy Chase D.C., phone; 202-966-5500
Reservation under "Jim DeLeo"

March 24, 2005 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership," John C. Maxwell
Facilitators: Kim Thompson, METRO and Lynne Oetjen-Gerdes, Office of the
Armed Forces Medical Examiner
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

March 18, 2005 from 9:30 - 11:30 am
BCIG CO-SPONSORED EVENT (with CIT): Genomatix Microarray Analysis Tutorial: Basic Data, New Approach, and a Complete Application Example
INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Thomas Werner, Genomatix Software GmbH, Munich, Germany
LOCATION: NIH Clinical Center, Lipsett Amphitheater

March 10, 2005 from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial: "User Interfaces for Bio-Informatics Visualization"
Instructor: Ben Shneiderman, Ph.D., University of Maryland
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

February 24th 5:30 - 7:30 pm
BCIG BOOK CLUB: "The Triple Helix," by Richard Lewontin
Discussion facilitated by Joyce Johnson, M.D., Tim Fowler, & Mohamed Al-Ubaydli, M.D.
LOCATION: NIH Clinical Center (Building 10), Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

February 23rd 9:30 - 11:30 am
BCIG CO-SPONSORED EVENT (with CIT): "Mac OS X v10.4 'Tiger' - What's New"
NIH Natcher Conference Center (Building 45), Balcony B

February 17th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG SPEAKER EVENT: "The Starlight Information Visualization System"
Brian Kritzstein, Battelle
LOCATION: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

February 10th 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Tutorial - Querying Integrated Clinical and Molecular Genetic Datasets
Dr. Ethel Rubin, Biofortis
LOCATION: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

February 3rd, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Improving the Application of Data Mining Methodologies to Biomedical Research: A Case Study"
Mike Iadarola, Ph.D., NIDCR, NIH
LOCATION: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

January 27 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "Extreme Programming," by Kent Beck
Facilitator: Carl Leonard, LIRED Corp and Igmar Bitter, NIH Clinical Center
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

2004 Events:

December 9 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial: “Medical Applications of Fuzzy Logic”
Monika Ray, Washington University
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

December 9 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Speaker: "Computing with Words and Perceptions – A New Direction”
Prof. Lotfi Zadeh, U.C., Berkeley
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

December 8 7:30 pm - Dinner at Guapo's

December 7 7 pm - What the Bleep Do We Know

December 2 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. (NOTE TIME CHANGE AND ROOM CHANGE)
Brainstorming: “What Do You Want from Your Clinical Data Warehouse? Help Create the Next Generation CRIS Data Warehouse,”
Vinod Muralidhar, CSC
Location: C.I.T., Building 12B, Second Floor Conference Room
 

November 25 (Thanksgiving Holiday)

November 18 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. (NOTE TIME CHANGE)
Speaker Event: "Biomedical Database Knowledge Discovery Leveraging Ontology Assisted Language Processing"
Jim Flanagan, Language and Computing

November 4, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
BCIG Brainstorming: "Discovering New Biomedical Knowledge with Text Data Mining"
Ken Fang and David Mayer, Altum, Inc.
Location:Building 40, Room 1201/1203 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE)

November 11 (Veterans Day Holiday)

October 28 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "Guns, Germs, and Steel," by Jared Diamond
Facilitator: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D.
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

October 21 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Speaker Event: "Medical Diagnosis by Odor, Utilizing 'Artificial Nose' Sensor Arrays and Artificial Neural Networks"
Speaker: Zvi Boger, President, Optimal Neural Informatics LLC, Rockville, MD.
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

October 14, 2004 3:00 - 4:30 pm
BCIG TUTORIAL: "HL7 Version 3: Driving Interoperability & Transforming Healthcare Information Management"
INSTRUCTOR: Charles Mead, MD, MSc, Director, Healthcare Information Architecture, Oracle Healthcare
DATE & TIME: October 14, 2004, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
LOCATION: Bldg. 40 Room 1201/1203 (NOTE ROOM CHANGE!!!)

October 7, 2004 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Are You Interested in Helping to Form a New BCIG Technology Transfer Multidisciplinary Research Team (TTMRT)?"
FACILITATOR: Ron Peterson, Three Arrows Company

September 30 - 7:00 to ? p.m.
BCIG Dinner Party at Maggiano's in Chevy Chase D.C.
Coordinator: Susan B. Harris, CC
(Please contact Susan, sharrisb@mail.cc.nih.gov, if you are interested in attending this dinner party.)

September 16 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Speaker: "The Economics of Gene Expression: Alternative Regulation of mRNA Stability and mRNA Transcription"
Chris Cheadle, Ph.D., George Washington University
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

September 23 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
BCIG Biomedical Data Mining Multidisciplinary Research Team Meeting (closed session)
Jim DeLeo, CC (organizer)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

September 23 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "Engineering of Mind," author James Albus
James Albus (speaker and facilitator)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

September 16 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
BCIG Microarray Multidisciplinary Research Team
Katherine Peterson, Ph.D., NEI, and Chris Cheadle, Ph.D., NCI (organizers)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

September 9 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
TUTORIAL: "Data Mining with SQL Server 2005 (Yukon)"
Gurujeet Khalsa

September 9 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
System Learning Organization Team (SLOT) Meeting
Chris Cheadle, Ph.D. (organizer)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

September 2 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
BCIG BRAINSTORMING SESSION: "Getting Your Data Out of CRIS"
FACILITATOR: Stephen Rosenfeld, M.D., MBA, NIH Clinical Center

July 29, 2004 7:00 to ??? p.m.
Dinner Party: Maggiano's (Chevy Chase, D.C.)
Coordinator: Susan B. Harris, CC (Please contact Susan, sharrisb@mail.cc.nih.gov, if you are interested in attending the dinner party.)

July 22, 2004 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Research Team (MRT) Event: BCIG Biomedical Data Mining MRT Meeting (by invitation only)
Organizer: Jim DeLeo, CC
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) CRIS Practice Lab (off the Center Lobby, across from the Red Cross Information Desk, next to guard stand)

July 22, 2004 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "How to Lie with Statistics," by Darrell Huff
Coordinator: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D. (session facilitator)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

July 15, 2004 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Featured Presentation: "Multi-Agent Artificial Intelligent Systems"
Speaker: Sean Luke, Ph.D., George Mason University
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

July 15, 2004 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Research Team (MRT) Event: BCIG Microarray Multidisciplinary Research Team (by invitation only)
Organizers: Katherine Peterson, Ph.D., NEI and Chris Cheadle, Ph.D., NCI
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) CRIS Practice Lab (off the Center Lobby, across from the Red Cross Information Desk, next to guard stand)

July 8, 2004 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial: "Sample Size Planning for Experiments with High Dimensional Data"
Instructor: Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D., NCI
Location: Building 40, Room 1201/1203. (Note: This is not our usual meeting room. We needed a bigger room; this tutorial should be very popular.)

July 8, 2004 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Multidisciplinary Research Team (MRT) Event: Systems Learning Organization Team (SLOT) - "More of 'The Fifth Discipline'"
Facilitator: Chris Cheadle, Ph.D., NCI
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

July 1 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Brainstorming: "Finding What You Want When You Don't Want to Learn How to Find It - Searching Clinical Medical Records Painlessly"
Facilitator: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D., NLM
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 24 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "Consilience," by Edward O. Wilson
Coordinator: Dara Cannon and Gary Berg-Cross
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 24 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
BCIG Extreme Data Mining Team Meeting (closed session)
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) CRIS Training Lab (off the Center Lobby, across from the Red Cross Information Desk)

June 10 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Tutorial: "Hidden Markov Models with Bioinformatics Applications,"
Instructor: Nanwei Cao, Ph.D., NIAAA
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 17 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Featured Presentation:"What's the Question: "Statistical Design and Methods for Proteomics, Microarrays, and Other High Dimensional Data,"
Speaker: Laura Lee Johnson, Ph.D., NCI
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 10 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Event: "BCIG Learning Organization Team (LOT) Inaugural Meeting,"
Instructor: Chris Cheadle, Ph.D., NCI
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 10 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Tutorial: "Hidden Markov Models with Bioinformatics Applications"
Dr. Nanwei Cao
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

June 3 - 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
Brainstorming: "Forming a Pilot Group to Gain Experience with 'Fifth Discipline' Concepts"
Facilitator: Chris Cheadle, Ph.D.
Location: Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)

May 27, 2004 - 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Book Club: "The Fifth Discipline," by Peter M. Senge
John Knight (facilitator)

May 21, 2004
(in collaboration with the NIH Systems Biology SIG)
"The Digital Human," Henry Kelly, Ph.D., Federation of American Scientists

May 20, 2004 - 4:00 - 5:30 pm
Speaker: "Oracle's Discovery Platform for Life Sciences."
Vijay Pillai, Director, Life Sciences, Oracle Corp.

May 13, 2004 - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Tutorial: "The Challenges of Multidisciplinary Supercomputing"
Brett Berlin, George Mason University

April 22, 2004 - 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Book Club: "Minds, Brains and Science," John R. Searle

April 15, 2004 - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
What Can Artificial Intelligence Technology Do For Biomedical Informatics?, Ben Goertzel

April 8, 2004 - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Tutorial: "Heads Up Analysis versus High Dimensionality Problems," Robert H. McCafferty

April 1, 2004 - 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Brainstorming: "The New Umbrella Group for Technical Special Interest Groups," Facilitator: Mohammad Al-Ubaydli, M.D., NLM.

March 25th, 2004 - 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Book Club: "Complexity," Mitchell Waldrop

March 18th, 2004 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Speaker: "Supporting Clinical Research from the Point-of-Care to the Data Warehouse: Challenges in Design and Execution at the NIH Clinical Center," Stephen Rosenfeld, M.D., M.B.A. NIH Clinical Center

March 11th, 2004 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Tutorial: "Create Palm & PocketPC Programs with no Programming: An Overview of Satellite Forms," David Whiteis, BRTRC, Fairfax, VA

March 4th, 2004 - 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Brainstorming: "What Is Intelligent Computing and How Can We Use It to Get New Knowledge from Clinical Research Data?" Ken Fang, Altum, Reston VA

February 26th, 2004 - 6 pm - 8 pm
Book Club: "Human Error" by James Reason

February 19th, 2004: 3 pm - 4:30 pm
"The Origins of the Advanced Technology Special Interest Group" - Dr. Steven Hausman, Ph.D.

February 12th: 3 - 4:30 pm
Tutorial:  "A Light Introduction on How to Use Artificial Neural Networks in Clinical Medicine Applications" - Jim DeLeo, NIH Clinical Center

February 5th: 3 - 4:30 pm
Coffee and Brainstorming Session on: “Moving Clinical Data Storage beyond Excel: Design Issues & Challenges" - Dr. Stephan Bour, NIAID

January 22nd, 2004: 6 pm - 8 pm
Book Club Meeting: "How Real Is Real," by Paul Watzlawick

January 15th, 2004: 3 pm - 4:30 pm
"Sharing, analyzing, and managing large volumes of Affymetrix GeneChip microarray data." - Ulrich Tillmann, PhD and Eva Mitter

2003 Events

January 16, 2003 - 3 pm
Clinical Informatics, Steve Rosenfeld

February 6, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session
"What Can Intelligent Computing Do for Clinical Medicine?"
"Technology Transfer and Intelligent Computing"

February 13, 2003 - 3 pm
Technology and Medical Records, Jerry King, RHIA, CRM, CMSC

February 20, 2003 - 3 pm
Interactive Pattern Discovery from Multimedia Data, Tin Kam Ho, PhD

March 6, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session
"Clinical Data Warehousing" & "Clinical Data Mining"

March 13, 2003 - 3 pm
Drowning in Data, Thirsting for Knowledge: Intelligent Computing Solutions in Medicine and Health Care Applications, Zvi Boger

March 20, 2003 - 3 pm
US Veterans Affairs' VistA Open Source Clinical Information System: Wealth for the Taking!, Walter Biggs

April 3, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session

April 10, 2003 - 3 pm
Introduction to Neural Networks (1) Fundamentals and the Backpropagation Model, Toshinori Munakata

April 17, 2003 - 3 pm
Ontologies and Machine Intelligence: Past, Present, Future, Larry Reeker

May 1, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session
Topic to be determined
Note room change: Medical Board Room (Room 2C-116)

May 8, 2003 - 3 pm
Data Mining Tutorial, Dr. Venkat Chalasani

May 15, 2003 - 3 pm
The role of RNA in regulating gene expression by the formation of connectron structures, Richard J. Feldman

June 5, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session
"Forming and Funding New Companies Based on Biomedical Computing Assets"? Ron Peterson, author of "When Venture Capitalists Say 'No'- Creative Financing Strategies & Resources."

June 12, 2003 - 3 pm
Effective Use of Grids and Clusters to Solve Computationally Intensive Biological Problems, Andrew Sherman, Ph.D.

June 19, 2003 - 3 pm
Survey of Multimodal Biometric Research and Technology, Michael Matyas

July 3, 2003 - 3 pm
No Coffee/Brainstorming Session this Month

July 10, 2003 - 3 pm
Intelligent Systems for e-Learning, Laveen N. Kanal, Ph.D

July 17, 2003 - 3 pm
Medics are from Mars, Vendors are from Venus - or, How to Get the Best Handheld Computer System for Your Team, Mohammad Al-Ubaydi, M.D.

August 2003 - No program for the summer

September 4, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee/Brainstorming Session

September 11, 2003 - 3 pm
A Primer on Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services, John Walsh

September 18, 2003 - 3 pm
Anatomical Pathology Ontologies and Data Mining, G. William Moore, M.D., Ph.D.

October 23 Book Club
Book Club Meeting on: "Linked - The New Science of Networks," - Albert-Laszio Barabasi

October 2, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee and Brainstorming Session on: “Turning Scientists and Technologists into Managers,” Andres Fortino, Ph.D.

October 9, 2003 - 3 pm
Tutorial on: "Data Warehousing,” Gary Berg-Cross, Ph.D, and Jerry King

October 16, 2003 - 3 pm
Speaker: “Computational Ontologies at NCI,” Frank Hartel, Ph.D.

October 23 Book Club
“When Teams Work Best” Frank LaFasto & Carl Larson

November 6, 2003 - 3 pm
Coffee and Brainstorming has been cancelled for the month

November 13, 2003 - 3 pm
Tutorial: “Data Pipelining and Discovery Informatics,” Ton VanDaelen, Ph.D.

November 20, 2003 - 3 pm
Speaker: “Ultimate Research – a System and Web Application to Streamline the Clinical Research Process,” Ricardo Pietrobon, M.D.

November 27 Book Club
Off for Thanksgiving

December 11, 2003 - 3 pm
Embedded Computing for Biomedical Tasks

2002 Events

Title/Speaker	Date/Time	Location
Practical and Intelligent Data Mining on the PC Platform Augie Turano, Ph.D. augiet@microsoft.com	Jan 17, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Universal Distribution Associated with Stochastic Processes of Gene Expression in Eukaryotic Cells Vladimir Kuznetsov, Ph.D. vkunetso@helix.nih.gov	Feb 21, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Clusters the Grid and Biocomputing: Grid Computing in a Biomedical Context Ian Greenshields, Ph.D. ian@brc.uconn.edu	Mar 21, 2002 3:00 pm	Note Room Change! Clinical Center, Clinical Pathology Conference Room (Room 2C310)
Drug Discovery through Information Extraction Technology Tom Haser thomas.g.haser@lmco.com Lois Childs lois.childs@lmco.com	Apr 18, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Ontologies in Practice Michael Gruninger gruning@cme.nist.gov	May 16, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Medical Uses of Receiver Operating Characteristic Methods Alan Remaley, M.D., Ph.D. aremaley@nih.gov	Jun 20, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Modern Robotics: Resistance is Futile Carl Leonard carlgleonard@netscape.net	Jul 18, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Anatomic Pathology Ontologies and Data Mining G. Willian Moore, M.D., Ph.D. gwmoore@erols.com	Aug 15, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Information Assimilation and Indexed Knowledge Gary-Berg Cross, Ph.D. bergcrog@nih.gov	Sep 19, 2002  3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Statistical Approaches to Data Mining with DNA Chip Technology Peter Munson, Ph.D. pmunson@nih.gov	Oct 17, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
Systems of Neural Networks for Solving Medical Problems Judith E. Dayhoff, Ph,D. dayhoff@pressroom.com	Nov 21, 2002 3:00 pm	Clinical Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room
The Importance of Thinking Declaratively Jonathan Hodgson, Ph.D. jhodgson@sju.edu	Dec 19, 2002 3:00 pm	The Bunim Room - 9th floor conference room (9S235)

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