Current 2012-2013 GBC/ACM IEEE Computer Society Joint Seminar Announcements

The slides from Georges Grinstein's talk on data visualization are now available online at Weaving a Visualization The First International Mammalian Synthetic Biology Workshop will take place at MIT, May 11-12, 2013. Registraion is free to students and $100 for non-students, but you must fill out an application. More information is available at http://mammalian-synbio.org/.

The New England Database Summit took place at MIT's Stata Center on Friday, February 3, 2012. This was a full day event and attendance was free (including food), check out the program on on their website the NEDBDay12 webpage and start planning for next year. You can see the program and abstracts from previous years at the NEDBDay09 webpage , the NEDBDay10 webpage , and the NEDBDay11 webpage.

Past Talks

The recording of our May talk by Bang Wong on "Communicating Science Visually " is now available for viewing online at Bang Wong webcast .

The slides from George Church's talk on "Challenges & opportunities in applying computational & synthetic biology to preventing disease & creating new materials" are available here in PowerPoint format. A short article describing some of the main points from the presentation was published in Seed 20:84-86. Church GM (2009) Safeguarding Biology. and is also available in pdf form.

The slides from Rohit Bhardwaj's talk on "Give REST and SPARQL to Semantic Web future of service oriented architectures " are available here in PowerPoint format and here as a downloadable zip file.

The slides from Donald Eastlake's talk on "RBridges/TRILL" are available here in PowerPoint format.

The slides from Ken Baclawski's talk on "Semantic Web Ontologies" are available here in PowerPoint format.

An overview of the 2008 Boston Usenix conference is online at Usenix Overview.htm.


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For more information contact Peter Mager (p.mager at computer.org)