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Blog from November, 2012
SYNOPSIS: Imagine an app store for scientists, engineers, and educators filled with simulation and modeling tools — not simple Java applets, but real research codes that tackle difficult problems and may require substantial computing power drawn from the Cloud. Imagine a new way of publishing scientific work that involves not just articles about those tools, but the tools themselves, online and accessible to the world through an ordinary Web browser. Imagine an array of databases at your fingertips, with information that is easy to search, sort, and filter.
That dream has become a reality for a wide variety of topics, including nanotechnology, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, earthquake engineering, volcanic activity, and environmental modeling. Each of these fields have used an open source software package called the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration to create an online collaboratory — a "hub" for their community. Each hub contains an electronic library of simulation tools, along with data sets, seminars, tutorials, and teaching materials contributed by the community. The past year has seen 40 such hubs in operation, serving more than 800,000 visitors from 172 countries. This seminar will demonstrate examples of hubs and how they’re being used to support both education and research. Session details ...
BIO: Michael McLennan is a senior research scientist at Purdue University’s Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, where he is director of the HUBzero Platform for Scientific Collaboration.
McLennan received a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1990, supported as an SRC Graduate Fellow, for his dissertation on dissipative quantum mechanical electron transport in semiconductor heterostructure devices. He spent 14 years working in industry at Bell Labs and Cadence Design Systems, developing software for computer-aided design of integrated circuits. He created “[incr Tcl],” an object-oriented extension of the Tcl scripting language, which has been used by thousands of developers worldwide on projects ranging from the TiVo digital video recorder to the Mars Pathfinder.
SUMMARY:
Topic: HUBzero: A Web-based Platform for Research, Education, and Scientific Collaboration
Speaker: Michael McLennan, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel 
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
Synopsis:
The development of evidence-based clinical guidelines is a rigorous process involving collaborative screening, identification, and systematic review of relevant literature, and the synthesis of evidence in support of guideline recommendations. In cooperation with NHLBI, SAIC has developed an infrastructure that combines Web 2.0 collaboration technologies with advanced knowledge mining facilities to standardize the workflow of several clinical guidelines development efforts in support of cardiovascular risk reduction. This presentation will provide an overview of the application of collaboration and knowledge-mining technologies in clinical guidelines development enabling the translation of evidence-based research supporting cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention, detection, and treatment into clinical practice, as well as to provide foundation for the future integrated approach to CVD guidelines. Session details ...
Bios:
Janusz Wnek, Ph.D. has more than 20 years of experience in developing and applying machine learning methods to document processing, data mining, and information retrieval and classification. He has developed and patented several methods and systems for automating enterprise search and knowledge management and has expertise in machine vision, machine translation, bioinformatics, and scientific programming. Dr. Wnek led the implementation of state-of-the art solutions supporting evidence-based guideline development at NHLBI, including the development and execution of literature search strategies. His leadership resulted in the deployment of the guideline infrastructure, including a Web 2.0 collaborative workspace that emulates the guideline development workflow; a central repository of annotated medical literature; a multimodal, sophisticated literature search and data mining engine; and several custom modules for conducting systematic reviews, evidence aggregation, and analysis. Dr. Wnek has a Ph.D. in Information Technology and Engineering from George Mason University, an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland.
Sharon Gaheen, an SAIC-Frederick Technical Program Manager, provided management support for the NHLBI clinical guidelines effort. Ms. Gaheen has provided management support on a variety of health informatics projects supporting nanotechnology, translational research, genomics/proteomics, biomedical imaging, clinical protocol analysis, and clinical guidelines development. She has an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).
SUMMARY:
Topic: Collaboration Environment Supporting the Translation of Evidence-Based Research into Clinical Practice through Guidelines Development
Speaker: Janusz Wnek, Ph.D. and Sharon Gaheen
Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
Presentation: A screencast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI Events YouTube Channel
About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page.
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this program should contact the Office of Space and Facilities Management (OSFM) at 240-276-5900 or the Federal TTY Relay number 1-800-877-8339.
