BCIG SPEAKER EVENT:
“How NA-MIC built an online scientific community, to develop advanced software
for Biomedical Research”
Clinical
Center (Building 10) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116)
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ABSTRACT: This talk describes some recent scientific highlights from
the National Alliance for Medical Imaging Computing and uses these results as a
context to describe the organization of the Center and the software process and
infrastructure that form its foundation. These highlights include
neuroscientific findings that rely on a variety of imaging modalities and the
application of leading-edge technologies implemented in an open-source software
framework. This talk describes the organization of NA-MIC with respect to its
multiple goals of algorithm development, software engineering, driving
biological problems, and technology dissemination. These goals are advanced
through a set of processes for communication across a national cadre of
participants and via a distributed, open, software development process that
encourages community contributions and naturally scales to provide a national
infrastructure.
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4:00 - 6:00 pm October 16, 2008
Ross T. Whitaker Ph.D.
Ross Whitaker received his
B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton
University, Summa Cum Laude, in 1986.
From 1986 to 1988 he worked
for the Boston Consulting Group, entering the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1989. At UNC he received the Alumni Scholarship Award, and
completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1994. From 1994-1996 he worked at
the European Computer-Industry Research Centre in Munich Germany as a research
scientist in the User Interaction and Visualization Group. From 1996-2000 he
was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the
University of Tennessee. Since then he has been at the University of Utah where
he is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and a faculty member of
the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute. He teaches image processing,
computer vision, and scientific visualization. His research interests include
computer vision, image processing, medical image analysis, surface modeling and
visualization.
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~whitaker/cv_feb_08.pdf
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