Congratulations on the establishment of NCOR, Mark & Barry! We
shall be looking forward to research leadership in your new Center. (01)
Best wishes. =ppy (02)
P.S. For those who have been tracking our weekly conference call
discussions, we are having Professor Barry Smith (on the
suggestion and invitation by Professor Bill McCarthy) as our
invited speaker for October. His talked is scheduled for
Thursday, Oct. 13, 2005. Stay tuned for more details! =ppy
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Mark Musen wrote Tue, 2 Aug 2005 21:39:38 -0700:
> Friends,
>
> With support from the State University of New York at Buffalo, Barry
> Smith and I are in the process of forming the National Center for
> Ontological Research, an organization to promote fundamental research
> and education in the development and application of ontologies (see
> http://ncor.us).
>
> NCOR's mission is focused on:
>
> 1. Providing information about and contributing to the coordination of
> ontological research in the United States, including facilitating
> partnerships of various sorts among NCOR's different partners and
> catalyzing major cross-disciplinary research projects.
>
> 2. Fostering high-level ontological research via the development and
> application of methodologies for the evaluation of ontologies and
> ontology-based tools.
>
>
> Barry and I would like to invite you to attend the official
> inauguration of NCOR, which will take place in Buffalo on October 27,
> 2005.
>
> A preliminary program of the inaugural meeting is provided below. A
> series of private meetings will also be organized, designed to
> facilitate networking among the various government, academic and
> industrial bodies who have expressed an interest in the work of NCOR.
>
> Further details, including details of subsidized hotel rates in
> Buffalo, will follow in due course. Those of you who wish to be
> involved in NCOR planning should feel free to contact Barry Smith or
> myself.
>
> With all good wishes,
> Mark Musen (Stanford)
> Barry Smith (Buffalo)
> NCOR Directors
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> NCOR Inaugural Event
>
> Center for the Arts
> University at Buffalo
> October 27, 2005, 2pm-5pm (followed by reception and dinner)
>
> Preliminary Program
>
> Introduction and Welcome:
> Barry Smith, Director NCOR-Buffalo
>
> John Walker,
> Chief of Knowledge Systems,
> Advanced Analysis Lab,
> National Security Agency
> "Ontology and National Security"
>
> Mark Musen
> Director NCOR-Stanford
> Stanford Medical Informatics
> "Ontology and Biomedicine"
>
> Werner Ceusters
> Director, European Centre for Ontological Research, Saarbrücken, Germany
> "Ontology: The Need for International Coordination"
>
>
>
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