Report on the Information Retrieval Festival (IRFest2017)

The Information Retrieval Festival took place in April 2017 in Glasgow. The focus of the workshop was to bring together IR researchers from the various Scottish universities and beyond in order to facilitate more awareness, increased interaction and reflection on the status of the field and its future. The program included an industry session, research talks, demos and posters as well as two keynotes. The first keynote was delivered by Prof. Jaana Kekalenien, who provided a historical, critical reflection of realism in Interactive Information Retrieval Experimentation, while the second keynote was delivered by Prof. Maarten de Rijke, who argued for more Artificial Intelligence usage in IR solutions and deployments. The workshop was followed by a "Tour de Scotland" where delegates were taken from Glasgow to Aberdeen for the European Conference in Information Retrieval (ECIR 2017

Interview with PGF Conference Keynote Speaker Anne Potjans (HU Berlin)

Anne Potjans from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin talks about her experience as the Keynote Speaker at the 2023 PGF Conference “Spaces of Affect in the Americas.

Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2002 (ISMB02)

This report profiles the keynote talks given at ISMB02 in Edmonton, Canada, by Michael Ashburner, Barry Honig, Isidore Rigoutsos, Ford Doolittle, Stephen Altschul, Terry Gaasterland, John Reinitz, and the Overton Prize winner, David Baker

11th Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2003 (ISMB 2003)

This report profiles the keynote talks given at ISMB03 in Brisbane, Australia by Ron Shamir, David Haussler, John Mattick, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Sydney Brenner, the Overton Prize winner, Jim Kent, and the ISCB Senior Accomplishment Awardee, David Sankov

The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2019: bioinformatics methods and applications for human diseases

Between June 9–11, 2019, the International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2019) was held in Columbus, Ohio, USA. The conference included 12 scientific sessions, five tutorials or workshops, one poster session, four keynote talks and four eminent scholar talks that covered a wide range of topics in bioinformatics, medical informatics, systems biology and intelligent computing. Here, we describe 13 high quality research articles selected for publishing in BMC Bioinformatics

Keynote speaker talks mortality in Harry Potter

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Keynote speaker talks mortality in Harry Potter

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Bivens Treasures APEC Conference Participation

Bivens joined other students selected from Harvard University, Brown University, Cornell University and Furman University to learn more about the 21-member countries’ economies and trade talks. The conference featured keynote addresses by President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and other world leaders

The Message Is from God

(Excerpt) I never settled on an opening line for this presentation, so I\u27ll simply tell you that it\u27s a humbling thing to stand here today charged with giving the keynote address for a gathering of the Institute for Liturgical Studies. I have attended this conference for many years-not for as long as many of you, but in twenty-six years at Valparaiso University I recall only one institute I missed completely. That means I\u27ve heard at least a hundred institute talks from this podium, and the excellence of the speakers here has consistently enriched and encouraged, sometimes entertained, and often awed me. Thus, it\u27s an honor, a weighty matter, to be here

Medical School watercooler Newsletter - September 27, 2009

This is the September 27, 2009 edition of the Frederick P. Whiddon College of Medicine\u27s Newsletter - Watercooler Contents Include Health and Services and COM Employees Recognized for Service Press Register Talks With USA Gastroenterologist Online Lecture - Med School Cafe - From Pigs To People USA Professor Keynote Speaker at International Forensic Conferenc