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

[Rachel Kalweit]

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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