[ESIP-all] FW: Invitation to National Academy of Sciences' public symposium, March 10

[Graves, Sara]

Please distribute as should be of interest to wide community.

 

Dear colleague:

 

You are cordially invited to attend a public symposium on The Future of
Scientific Knowledge Discovery in 

Open Networked Environments. The event is being organized by the
National Research Council's Board on 

Research Data and Information, and will be held on March 10 in
Washington, DC at 575 7th Street NW. A 

formal invitation with the summary description of the symposium, the
exact location, and RSVP instructions 

may be found below. 

 

Please feel free to forward this invitation to others who you think may
be interested. Registrations will be 

honored on a first-come-first-served basis. More complete information
about the event and about the Board 

on Research Data and Information is available at:
http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi.

 

Best wishes,

 

Paul F. Uhlir

Director, Board on Research Data and Information

puhlir at nas.edu

 

 

The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked
Environments: 
A National Symposium and Workshop

 

 

INVITATION


The Future of Scientific Knowledge Discovery in Open Networked
Environments
A NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM
Organized by the 
Board on Research Data and Information

National Research Council
(http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi)  
Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

Venable, 8 West Conference Center

Capitol Room, 575 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC

 

Digital technologies and networks have enhanced access to and use of
scientific data, information, and literature significantly, and also
have great promise for accelerating the discovery and the communication
of knowledge both within the scientific community and in the broader
society. This is particularly the case for scientific data and
information that are openly available online. Scientific knowledge
discovery in open networked environments, referred to in this project as
computer-mediated or computational scientific knowledge discovery, may
be defined as a research process that is enabled by different digital
computing technologies such as data mining, information retrieval and
extraction, artificial intelligence, distributed grid computing, and
many other automated methods. Together, these technological capabilities
are supporting the emergence of computer-mediated knowledge discovery as
a new paradigm in the conduct of research. 

The event brings together key stakeholders in this area for intensive
and structured discussions in order to obtain a better understanding of
the state-of-the-art and future trends in the study of computational
scientific knowledge discovery in the open online environment and to
develop a range of options for future work in this area.

 

The symposium is open to the public, but advance registration is
requested (contact: Cheryl Levey, clevey at nas.edu <mailto:clevey at nas.edu>
or call 202-334-1531). The project is funded by the National Science
Foundation under grant 1042078.

 

 

Venable, 8 West Conference Center

Capitol Room, 575 7th Street NW, Washington, DC

 

Thursday, March 10, 2011, 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.


The symposium is free and open to the public, but advance registration 

is requested due to space limitations. 

RSVP to Cheryl Levey at clevey at nas.edu <mailto:clevey at nas.edu> .
For additional information about the program, please visit 

http://www.nationalacademies.org/brdi 
or contact Paul Uhlir, the Board Director, at puhlir at nas.edu
<mailto:puhlir at nas.edu>  or 202-334-1531. 

 

 

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Sara J. Graves, Ph.D. 

Director, Information Technology and Systems Center 

University Professor of Computer Science 

The University of Alabama in Huntsville 

S339 Technology Hall, Huntsville, Alabama  35899 

Tel #: 256-824-6064, Fax #: 256-824-5149 

sgraves at itsc.uah.edu, http://www.itsc.uah.edu <http://www.itsc.uah.edu/>


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