You are cordially invited to the next IIC Colloquium Dec. 2.
*****************
Harvard Catalyst Profiles: Network Analysis and Data Visualization
December 2, 2009, 4:00 pm
Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge
Griffin Weber
Chief Technology Officer, Harvard Medical School
Abstract
Profiles is a research networking and expertise discovery website
developed for Harvard Catalyst (the Harvard Clinical and Translational
Science Center). It contains profiles for 22,000 Harvard Medical
School and Harvard School of Public Health faculty, with plans to
extend to other Harvard schools. In addition to presenting
investigators’ names, titles, degrees, awards, narratives and
publications, Profiles uses automated data mining techniques based on
natural language processing and artificial intelligence to connect
researchers into networks based on characteristics such as being co-
authors on articles, having similar interests, or having offices that
are physically close. Computational analysis and visualization of
these networks reveals how people collaborate in various disciplines,
identifies foci where new ideas are emerging, and discovers
connections between different academic fields. These tools can suggest
novel approaches and recommend the best faculty for solving
challenging research problems.
Bio
Griffin Weber is the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard Medical
School (HMS); Director of the Biomedical Research Informatics Core
(BRIC) at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC); and an
Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in the Division of
Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology, Department of Medicine,
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Weber did his undergraduate work at Harvard, where he concentrated in
biomedical sciences and engineering in the Division of Engineering and
Applied Sciences. Shortly after arriving at Harvard, he began working
as an informatics consultant for several hospitals and medical
research centers; and, in 1997, he created one of the world's first
hospital-wide web-based electronic medical record systems. Other
projects ranged from developing software to analyze DNA microarray
databases to modeling the growth of breast cancer tumors to inventing
algorithms to predict life expectancy.
He entered Harvard Medical School in 2000 as an M.D./Ph.D. student in
the Health Sciences and Technology program. In his first year as a
medical student, he recognized the need for a web-based curriculum and
invented the MyCourses internet web portal, which today is used by
over 500 courses at HMS to publish events, announcements, lecture
videos, exams, handouts, interactive simulations and other content
online. He then joined forces with the HMS Information Technology
department and over the next seven years expanded MyCourses and
designed a second web portal, eCommons, to serve the content
management needs of the administration and researchers of Harvard
Medical School. Together, the two portals are used by 20,000 faculty,
staff and students over 30,000 times a day. During this time, Weber
earned a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on biomedical
informatics and Artificial Intelligence, received a certificate from
the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics Training Program at MIT,
and completed his medical school coursework at HMS.
In January, 2007, Weber came to work for HMS full time as its chief
technology officer. As CTO, he oversees research and development of
new IT initiatives, evaluates emerging technologies, implements
enterprise-wide solutions, and initiates collaborative projects with
the IT departments of Harvard- affiliated hospitals and institutions.
---------------
Refreshments will be served at 3:45 pm.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming events:
Monday, Nov. 30, 12:30 pm, Maxwell Dworkin 319: SciGPU seminar with
Peter Lu, Harvard Department of Physics
Thursday, Dec. 4, 4:00 pm, Maxwell Dworkin G125: Computer Science
Colloquium with Matt Welsh (Harvard SEAS): "How to Program a
Macroscope."
For more information about IIC colloquia and other events :
http://iic.harvard.edu/events/upcoming
_______________________________________________
iic-colloquium mailing list
iic-colloquium(a)seas.harvard.edu
https://lists.deas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iic-colloquium