[Colloq] Distinguished Speaker Series, Mark Musen, Stanford Univ. March 1, 3pm

Rachel Kalweit rachelb at ccs.neu.edu
Wed Feb 21 13:33:53 EST 2007


College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium
Distinguished Speaker Series Presents:
Mark Musen
Stanford University

Thursday, March 1, 2007
3:00pm
20 West Village F

Title:
"Don't know much about philosophy: Confusion about ontologies and the 
development of information systems"

Bio:
Mark Musen (MD, PhD) is Professor of Medicine (Medical Informatics) and 
Computer Science (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is head 
of the Stanford Medical Informatics laboratory. He holds an MD from 
Brown University and a PhD from Stanford.

Dr. Musen conducts research related to intelligent systems, the Semantic 
Web, reusable ontologies and knowledge representations, and biomedical 
decision support. His long-standing work on a system known as Protégé 
has led to an open-source technology now used by thousands of developers 
around the world to build intelligent computer systems and new computer 
applications for e-science and the Semantic Web. He is known for his 
research of the application of intelligent computer systems to assist 
health-care workers in guideline-directed therapy and in management of 
clinical trials. He is principal investigator of the National Center for 
Biomedical Ontology, one of the seven National Centers for Biomedical 
Computing supported by the NIH Roadmap.

In 1989 Dr. Musen received the Young Investigator Award for Research in 
Medical Knowledge Systems from the American Association of Medical 
Systems and Informatics. He received a Young Investigator Award from the 
National Science Foundation in 1992. He has served on the Biomedical 
Library Review Committee of the National Library of Medicine and as an 
advisor to many academic and industrial groups concerned with the 
development of advanced information technology. Dr. Musen sits on the 
editorial boards of several journals related to biomedical informatics 
and computer science. He is co-editor of the Handbook of Medical 
Informatics (Springer-Verlag, 1997) and co-editor-in-chief of the 
journal Applied Ontology.

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