National Center for
Ontological Research
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NCOR Inaugural
Event
The Center for the
Arts
University at Buffalo
· North Campus
(Reception
& Dinner Immediately Following)
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Bruce A.
Holm
Executive
Director, NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life
Sciences
Senior
Vice Provost, University at Buffalo
Introduction
Barry
Smith
Director,
NCOR-Buffalo
Department
of Philosophy
National
Center for Ontological Research
John B. Simpson
President, University at
Buffalo
Welcoming
Remarks
John Walker
U.S. National Security
Agency
Ontology
and National Security
Brand Niemann
U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency
Towards
e-Government:
The
Federal Enterprise Architecture Reference Ontology
Mark Musen
Director,
NCOR-Stanford
Stanford Medical Informatics
The
Werner Ceusters
European Centre for Ontological
Research
Ontology:
The Need for International Coordination
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Dean Allemang, Chief Technology Consultant, TopQuadrant Inc., Boston, MA
William Andersen, Chief Scientist, Ontology Works Inc., Odenton, MD
Mary T. Armijo, Sierra Nevada Corporation, San Antonio, TX
Christopher Baker, Fungal Web, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Carol A. Bean, National Center for Reseach Resources, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD
Richard Beatch, Allstate Insurance Co.
James R. Beebe, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Michael P. Belanger, SemanTx Life Sciences, Inc., Waltham, MA
Ling Bian, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
Thomas Bittner, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Olivier Bodenreider, National Library of Medicine: Medical Ontology Research, Bethesda, MD
Jack Bowie, Apelon Inc., Ridgefield, CT
Paul Broome, DUAL Knowledge Systems / Medical Decision Logic, Inc., Towson, MD
Gary Byrd, Health Sciences Library, University at Buffalo
Jeffrey M. Camelio, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Patrick Cassidy, The MITRE Corp., Eatontown, NJ
Werner Ceusters, European Centre for Ontological Research, Saarbrücken, Germany
Sam Chance, US Navy
Daniel Cook, Structural Informatics Group, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Mills Davis, Managing Director, TopQuadrant Inc., Project 10X, Beaver Falls, PA
Patricia Diaz, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Randall Dipert , Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Maureen Donnelly, Department of Philosophy and Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics, University at Buffalo
Kenneth Ehrenberg, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
John Eisner, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo
Peter L. Elkin, Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN
Laura Franklin , Department of Philosophy, Columbia University
Louis Goldberg, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo
Susan Golden Nervana, Inc., Bellevue, WA
Jorge J.E. Gracia, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Michael Gruninger, University of Toronto
Volker Haarslev, Fungal Web, Montreal, Canada
Frank Hartel, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
Nathan Heberlig, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Boris Hennig, Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
David Hershenov, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Henry Hexmoor, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
Amanda Hicks, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
David Hill, Senior Scientific Curator, Mouse Genome Informatics, The Jackson Laboratory, Bar Harbor, ME
Clarence Huf, Ontology Group, Sierra Nevada Corp. Intelligence Program, San Antonio, TX
Todd Hughes, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories, Cherry Hill, NJ
Jorge V. José, Vice President for Research, University at Buffalo
John Kearns, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Michael A. Kirby, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Ryan Kohl, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo and Ontology Works Inc., Odenton, MD
Carolyn W. Korsmeyer, Department of Philosophy, University
at Buffalo
Jon Kreiss, Kreiss Consulting
Anand Kumar, Institute for
Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Saarbrücken, Germany
Marnie LaVigne, NYS Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life Sciences
Kathy Lesh, The KEVRIC Company, Inc.,Hyattsville, MD
Suzanna E. Lewis, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA
Eric Little, Center for Cognitive Science, D’Youville College, Buffalo
James Llinas, Center for Multisource Information Fusion, University at Buffalo
Jennifer J. Long, School of Dental Medicine, University at Buffalo
William Mandrick, SUNY College at Brockport
Inderjeet Mani, The MITRE Corp., Bedford, MA
David Mark, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at Buffalo
Robin A. McEntire, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA
Michael McGlone,Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
J. L. V. Mejino, Structural Informatics Group, Department of Biological Structure, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Chris Menzel, Boeing Corporation and Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
Zachary Miller, Population Action International, Washington, DC
Daniel Novotny, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Leo Obrst, Center for Innovative Computing and Informatics, The MITRE Corp., McLean, VA
Deborah Osborne, Buffalo Police Department
Andrea Ott, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Paul S. Penner, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Eric Peterson, McDonald Bradley Inc.
H. Raghav Rao, Management Science and Systems, School of Management; Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo
William J. Rapaport, Computer Science and Engineering and Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Steven Ray, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
James J. Rice, Muskegon Surgical Associates, P.L.C., Muskegon, MI
Galina Rogova, Encompass Consulting, Rochester, NY
Conor Shankey, Visual Knowledge, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Stuart C. Shapiro, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Buffalo
Kenneth Shockley, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Dagobert Soergel, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland College Park, MD
Seth Spielman, Department of Geography, University at Buffalo
Alyssa Sundy, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
Peter Trabold, School of Management, University at Buffalo
Simon Twigger, Rat Genome Database, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
Lowell Vizenor, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD
Alisa Wandzilak, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Robert Warren , School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo
Tony Weida, Apelon Inc., Ridgefield, CT
Kristan J. Wheaton, Department of Intelligence Studies, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
Jennifer Williams, Ontology Works Inc., Odenton, MD
Neil Williams, Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo
Peter Winkelstein, Clinical & Scientific Informatics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Justin T. Yates, Industrial Engineering Graduate Student, University at Buffalo
Peter Yim, CIM Engineering Inc. / Ontolog Forum, San Mateo, CA
Sumi Yoshikawa, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Center, RIKEN Yokahama Institute, Yokahama City, Japan
W. Jim Zheng, Biomedical Ontology Research Group, Charleston, SC
C. Richard Zobel, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University at Buffalo
Sponsored
by:
New
York State Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics & Life
Sciences
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of Arts and Sciences ·
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