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Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I'm 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we've assumed to be true about health and wellness...Tell Me More
It's Friday, everyone! And that means another Primal Blueprint Real Life Story from a Mark's Daily Apple reader. If you have your own success story and would like to share it with me and the Mark's Daily Apple community please contact me here. I'll continue to publish these each Friday as long as they keep coming in. Thank you for reading!
Dear Mark,
I can't tell you how much I feel like a Primal success story although my before and after photos wouldn't reveal a thing. You see, I haven't lost a pound, not one. And I didn't really need to, but I desperately needed a change.
A little backstory:
I am a stay at home mom. Three years ago, my husband began his graduate degree. He had also recently started a new job with no base salary. (He worked for 100% commissions.) Our two children, at the time, were ages 5 and 3. And then my brother-in-law moved in with us. My stress level went through the roof! And my health took a nosedive. Sleep was not a priority; it was usually just an afterthought. My weight, which has been the same number for the past decade, wasn't sitting in the same places. And while my husband swore he didn't notice, I did.
The worst part was the way the stress affected my overall health. I was getting chronic yeast infections. Chronic. Get one, clear it up, and repeat. The first couple times I tried treating it over the counter. Then I tried the doctor. Then I tried another doctor. It was affecting things in the bedroom too. My not feeling well made two of us unhappy.
I was also getting these weird bumps inside my nose. I thought they were pimples or something because if I washed my face or blew my nose they would hurt so much. But the doctor told me they were staff infections. How does that happen!? Maybe if you're a habitual nose-picker with dirty hands, but for the rest of the population (meaning anyone over the age of six) what could possibly cause that? I had to coat cotton swabs in Neosporin and stick them up my nose. That was fun. NOT.
And overall, I just felt blah. I didn't have any energy. I got sick or colds frequently. I felt rundown. My immunity was definitely compromised. But, I just figured it was the season of life we were in: small children, graduate school, career building, etc. I kept holding on, thinking eventually things had to get better.
About a year and a half into this awkwardness, I had my first awakening. I was referred to a new doctor who, in addition to treating my (current) yeast infection, told me he wanted me to try doing Sugar Busters. Not as a form of weight control, but to try to rid my body of additional sugar that could be feeding the yeast infections. This was something new: I had a doctor who not only treated me, but believed I could do something to help myself and encouraged me to do it. I felt empowered. I bought Sugar Busters that day and began my "new life." Only, it didn't work. I was at it for a year because I didn't want to "quit" before it could work. (Plus I was desperate; chronic yeast infections are not fun.)
I still felt like the doctor was onto something though. I felt like there must be a way to take my health into my own hands if only I could figure out how to do it. I began to read more about nutrition, more specifically, to read about challenging conventional wisdom and the Standard American Diet. I was beginning to form my own ideas about what nutrition could mean for me.
It was at this same time that my sister began going Primal with her husband. She would call me and say, "I really think this could work for you." I was skeptical to say the least. OK, I was ready to challenge the powers that be, but give up grains? ALL of them? Really? What would I eat? What would I feed my family? My sister's only question to me was, "What do have you to lose?"
I bought a copy of The Primal Blueprint and read it in a few days. It made so much sense! Just reading and following your 10 Primal Blueprint Laws is transformative! And sleep is one of them! Oh, how I missed sleep. My husband was so busy I really had to lobby for more sleep, but he quickly saw that it made quite a difference to both of us! Getting him on board the food train didn't take much convincing. Steak, bacon, eggs, avocados. I think his exact words were "H***, yeah!" He never much cared for all the "wheat poop" I used to serve him anyway. (Yes, those are his words for "whole grains.")
I'm a much better cook now! I don't think we ever realized how bland and tasteless pasta, bread, and breading can be. We buy grass fed beef and joined a CSA. My kids are trying and eating things I wouldn't have expected young children to like (such as kale and salmon). The kids devoured Shawarma Salad. I made a bone broth stew from lamb necks and my son licked the bowl! My daughter's favorite breakfast is your Sausage & Egg Breakfast Bites. I make them for her every week. And I don't feel at all guilty giving them to her like I used to over Pop-Tarts and sugared cereals.
But here's the success! I have been Primal for just over 6 months now and I haven't had a yeast infection since we started! My nose? It's just a nose, no weird bump things inside. I haven't lost a pound, but guess what? My weight is all back in the right places. You wouldn't see the difference with my clothes on, but I know it because of how my clothes fit! (My husband has lost 10 lbs. without even trying and would like to lose about 10 more. Totally doable.) My energy is up! I have learned how to listen to my body. I know what will give me energy and what will zap it! My husband loves eating a breakfast that fuels him until lunch or beyond. No more munchies in the office at 10 AM. I feel better and more in control of things now than ever before.
I love reading Mark's Daily Apple. My favorite post was the one about which 10 foods you would take on a trip to Mars. You inspired me to try salmon skin. I'd always peeled it off and thrown it away before. "Bacon of the sea." I love it! You are so helpful, and thought-provoking, and encouraging. I love the way your readers respond to one another and encourage each other. And your wife is gorgeous, by the way! (As if you didn't know.) My husband is pretty stoked that if we continue with this lifestyle I've got a good chance of looking like that in my 50's!
I'm not sure if my story is as inspirational as those who look like they have had a total body makeover, but I have transformed my body! It's just in ways you can't see. I feel like a success! I think that's what counts. Grok on!
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Absolutely insprirational! And are they the cutest couple ever, or what?? :o)
Excellent!! They look like the bright, shiny, happy people who come in picture frames.:)
Beth –
Fantastic story. I think you can see the difference in the 2nd pic. Both of you are glowing.
I think this is so great because there are plenty of unhealthy people walking around that are not necessarily overweight.
Great job, I admire how you transformed your whole family, and are all better for it.
That's awesome. "Do you mean out of a box?" Lol. Bet patient and show your love for them like I am sure you are. Your kids are lucky to have you 2 as parents!
I love the weight loss success stories but its great to read one that does not deal with weight loss. Going Primal can heal you in so many ways!
Wonderful! When my kids tell me they like "Donald's" or "Burger King," I tell them that, yes, that stuff tastes good but they don't treat their cows right so their meat is bad.
Isn't it funny that kids can totally relate to that and not, "well it's not good for us". Oh to have child like faith… 🙂
My son, who is celiac and GF but not primal, was in McDonalds while my sister was picking up food for her kids. He is 10 and says quite loudly "This place gags me". My sister was so embarassed but I was so proud!
Wow, great idea for getting candy out of kids' diets–payment for experiences they want more than eating candy. Brilliant.
There are some paleo based books coming out for kids this spring. Paleo pals is one and eat like a dinosaur is another which has kid friendly paleo recipes. These might be helpful to you. I am going to get them for my son, like you trying to get him converted to paleo as well.
Your story is very inspirational. Thanks for sharing it with everyone.
Beth, I love that you aren't taking food out a box for your kids anymore! How cool that they are noticing, even if they are not sure about it. 🙂 Carissa – thanks for the heads-up on the kid's books! I'm excited to find out more about them.
Thanks! I have them both on pre-order!
my 'kids' are 19 and 21 – they're still complaining about the no-packaged-food thing and they were raised this way! But they are also old enough now to really understand health and to try to hold onto it as they go out on their own. Good for you for starting this health behavior when your family is so young! Going to eat some creamy chicken soup made with a bone broth so thick it stood up on its own before heating…not to brag or anything… : )
yay, congrats beth!
Fantastic! As much as I love the weight loss success stories, it's nice to read one of someone benefiting in other ways. Keep it up!
OK, that's supposed to say "journey", not "journal"… I need to switch out of blogger mode… lol
"They think thin = healthy, no matter what might be going on inside"
I totally agree with you Amy. My ex-boyfriend was normal weight but had *so* many other health problems like migraines, acid reflux, fatigue, etc. He just could not grasp the fact that his SAD way of eating could be the cause of all the problems. When I would suggest a change in diet he would just be like "but I don't need to loose weight". So Frustrating!
Great story Beth! You are an inspiration!
I am often glad that I had a weight problem (quickly disappearing) because of the amazing health benefits that came with this way to lose weight. I had infections and skin problems that are just GONE. Not to mention mental acuity and good mood! Now I am working on my skinny and rather stubborn boyfriend. Basically, all he eats is grains. And what do you know–high BP and cholesterol.
Beth, you and your husband are an adorable couple! You both radiate health in that second picture. Keep up the good work!
It totally counts and is very inspirational. Congratulations 🙂
Beth this was inspiring for me to read as I'm sort of in the same boat. I don't really have weight to lose but I'm looking for those changes you can't always see. I've only been primal for 13 days now and I already have stopped having these headaches i used to always get, my mood has improved, and it's amazing how much more energy I have. I can't wait to see how things are when I get to 6 months. Thanks again for sharing your story!
I wish you a lot of luck! I also did not have any weight to lose when I first went Primal on April 5, 2010. After just a few days I felt like I was on top of the world!
If this is not inspirational I don't know what is 🙂
Wonderful story that going Primal can solve a lot of different issues apart from weight. Congratulations
Congratulations Beth!!!
Awesome, happy people! Fitness is life changing!
Great job, keep up the good work!
Great to hear! I had to give up sugar entirely both times I was breastfeeding my kids as I gave them thrush. It was so stressful at the time as I was newly post-partum and trying to rid myself and my kids of thrush.
Now I am trying to kick the sugar so that I can feel more alert and vital. It only takes a couple of days off of the sugar and I feel the difference.
Thanks for sharing! 🙂
This post really made me smile 🙂 Although where are the hyper-links to the things she mentioned? 10 things to take to Mars? Sausage Egg Breakfast Bites? I guess I'm gonna have search for them myself 😉
This is a very inspirational story! Thank you so much for sharing! So many seemingly normal-looking people have too much sugar in their bodies and it's causing problems in many different ways!
Wonderful! Sometimes the best changes aren't as outwardly visible…
I really needed to read this today. I am staying home sick from work cause I feel crappy. And I know the crappy feeling is from eating all the wrong things. I made bacon and eggs after reading your inspirational posting and used almond milk in second cup of tea instead of milk. Thanks again for sharing.
Beth — great story, and yes, verrry success-ful/filled! I think it's wonderful when people connect to the real core of primal living–that wellspring of healthy and positive energy. Love the sparkle in your eyes in your "after" picture. I'm pretty sure you'll keep it long after and into always!
Awesome story!!! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Wow, congradulations to both of you!
You did an excellent job researching nutrition and we need more folks like you to seek wisdom against CW!
Truly inspirational for I was in the same boat as you, well minus the yeast infections lol.
I grew up in a time without internet and I seriously felt that there was something wrong with me. Did everybody feel as miserable as I am? Other adults seemed to smile and be happy…I didn't understand it…
So greatful to the new generation of people and the internet. Continue the great work.
Yep, I was just away at a work conference, where the food available was not Primal in the slightest, and the stress and temptation got to me. I ate terribly. Combine that with the stress of my wedding and spending holidays abroad (and the totally non-Primal eating that entailed) and guess what? Got my first yeast infection in 6 months. And I used to be one of those people that got one every two weeks – Yuck. Must get rid of sugar and starch!!
Wow! Great job, Beth!
Awesome story, Beth–totally inspirational! The two of you look so radiant now! Thanks for sharing your success. I can attest to the benefits of completely eliminating sugar–I set up a 30-day challenge for myself this January to eliminate all sugar from my diet (less daunting than a New Year's resolution), and I feel amazing. Funny how what we've come to think of as a "normal" part of our diets is actually so harmful.
Great story! Over-all health and well-being is more important that weight loss alone, so your story is very inspirational! Grok on!
Totally inspiring. Seeing bodies change is always cool, but knowing that serious underlying health issues, which affect your relationships and daily life, are being resolved– is awesome! Really happy for you!
Awesome! You and your husband (and your kids) are creating a legacy that will benefit many generations to come.
One thing I love the most about Friday success stories here on MDA is that provide me with "mental armor" for the weekend. Meaning, Friday and Saturday nights are usually party/go out nights and it is really easy to consume bad things and not get enough quality sleep.
The weekly Friday MDS story gives me stronger constitution to do what is right for my body. (Especially during football season).
Dr. Ron Paul cured my political apathy, MDA has cured by health woes.
heh, typing is way off today. I hate typos!
"Dr. Ron Paul cured my political apathy, MDA has cured by health woes."
Woooo Hoooo AGREE 100%
Ditto 🙂
A method I like to offer is provide a choice with outcomes that you are okay with. That way the kid makes a choice and you are happy.
Right, like "nuts, jerky or fruit."
Maybe I didn't phrase that part properly. By taking the choice out of it, I meant that the only options left would be good ones. Kids, like adults, will eat for good reasons and bad ones. If you're asking me for a snack because you're bored or just want some sugar, "Sorry, honey."
Thank you for the tips! Some of this goes along with how I've dealt with food in general at home (especially the part where they have to try, but they don't have to like it). I guess the key is to lose the non-primal options. To do this, though, I'll have to get my husband on board, otherwise he'll be "allowed" to eat bread while the kids aren't. Fortunately, my kids are nuts about eggs, so I know that if all other options fail, I can always entice them with a soft boiled egg!
So true! I know I used to think skinny = healthy.
When I went to that doctor who put me on Sugar Busters, he asked me to tell him about my health. I gave him a brief history and said, "Other than the yeast infections, I think I'm pretty healthy."
His response: "In less than five minutes, you told me that you are getting over a cold, you've had the swine flu and you get chronic yeast infections. You may be thin, but you are definitely not healthy!"
I was shocked. (But he was right.)
Great story Beth. Even if it isn't "obvious" like the huge physical changes, it's still inspiring to hear about the subtle (or not so subtle) other changes that the Primal lifestyle can evoke.
I understand about the kids too. We have two daughters who are not fans of the "Caveman Diet." We don't force them to eat our food and haven't stopped buying them junk like good parents would. We give them the option and try to set as good an example as we can.
Best of luck on your continued success.
Amazing story Beth! It does feel amazing to not catch every little bug that floats around! And I'm with you on bland grains. I don't even see that stuff as food any more – I mean, if you think about it, pasta is processed, nutrient-less flour shaped into tastless stuff you just use as a vehicle for sauce. Do your body (and mouth!) a favour and put that sauce on a steak! 🙂
Boy, I can just TELL y'all are not what Monel Chemical Lab in Philly calls a supertaster… Pasta has the most amazingly heavenly deep rich taste — but apparently only to (some?) supertasters. Yes, of course, with lots of butter and lots of freshly grated locatelli (sheep's milk romano) — but putting those on any other 'carrier' is so not the same! That's always my problem — veggies taste too strong (yuck!), too objectionable and pasta (and bread), too wonderful. (But yes, almost without exception, I skip the pasta and bread. {sigh})
Hi – does the coconut oil heal the nose bump? I can't believe that others get these – anytime I've mentioned it to a Dr. they look at me like I'm crazy. I still get them but I'm still 70/30 or maybe even 60/40. I'm going to pay a lot more attention now that I have read this – I never made the connection. Now if I could just stop my head from itching…. 🙂
What a great story! I also found my way to the Primal lifestyle by way of chronic yeast infections, although mine were topical. I found out about the Candida diet to as a way to stop feeding the infection (it's fairly similar to Primal)and then read about Primal and decided it was a better fit for me. Haven't had a single yeast infection since I changed my diet in September!
Thanks for sharing! It's so awesome to hear how eating right csn make such a positive difference. Food is medicine. And I'm really more inspired with stories like this, about 'normal sized' people – I've never been overweight, so the others aren't as relatable.
Way to go, Beth! Chronic health issues can be stubborn and frustrating just like chronic over weight issues.
Great transformation. I love your story thanks for sharing. It is amazing how this can change your life. Much health to your and your family
As usual with these stories, the best part is the contrast between the "Before" and "After" pics…absolutely astounding! You guys look like you feelgreat, nice job!
Congrats to you Beth! I also have never had a weight problem but had tons of health problems for my whole life that literally disappeared once I gave up grains, sugar, and dairy. Focusing on sleep was a huge issue for me (I still have to work on it from time to time) but wow, what a difference. Thank you for sharing your story, I'm sure there are more people out there like you and me who look okay but are not okay who will be inspired by your success!
Hey Beth
It was great to read your story. It was actually a nice change from all the weight loss successes. Though they are wonderful it is good to hear about how primal affects other health issues. Thanks!
I love this. Thanks so much for sharing your story!!
Congratulations!! In fact, I was waiting for this kind of success story. I doesn't have to always rely around fat loss!
Cheers from Quebec!
Fantastic story! My weightloss has stalled, and I think it's because I still have underlying things to heal: but I feel great ! The SAD (whether it's Aussie or American) is a depressive diet. Sugar and the junk food are downers of that I am sure. My sister in law has gone onto a primal stlye diet and her eczema which she has had from BIRTH, has gone. just like that. Cheers
Wow, as you can see from the comments, your story is really inspiring to those of us without weight to lose but have other health issues. Thanks for sharing!
I have a question about fruit for you – did you have to cut it out to get rid of the yeast infections and can you eat it (in moderation) now? I'm currently trying to rid myself of chronic yeast infections and have completely cut out fruit, but I really hope I'll be able to add it back in at some point as it's about my favorite thing to eat (for dessert!).
Im particularly happy to hear its helped your yeast problems. I went on a anti yeast diet which introduced me to the idea of meals without grains. Feel fantastic for it, and now making my way (along with hubby -yay!) into primal. I am happy to hear that this will also help get rid of any remaining yeast problem without being on SUCH a restrictive diet 🙂 its hard work. Primal however is YUM!!! 🙂 thanks for sharing.
Great Story. Congrats!


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It was the recreation room, that room which Bat had so bitterly come to hate.
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This particular Thursday I had even found some one to talk to in the recreation room when I sneaked up at three o'clock.
After a couple of days, some one mentioned the recreation room.
Several chambermaids were waiting around the recreation room the few moments before the meeting.
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Remember that this video is proof of what really went on. This means there never were significant aftershocks, never was a natural tsunami, and if they lied about that, what else? This video is pivotal and vital to exposing the truth. Sure there was a quake, but at this newsroom it was not much over a six if it even was a six. I chose this video because the news room is within eyeshot of station MYG012, which was used by the USGS to make these graphs which represent an 8.8 AT THAT STATION, as was stated in this (English) newscast and was probably used as a guide to fudge the lie due to the closeness of the newsroom to the seismic station. Here is the full chart put out by the USGS Of course, they offer no reading from MYG011, which was closest to the 9.0 "epicenter" by a long shot, because it only got a 5.63's worth of shaking. I will do that work for them. That map is below.
I challenge ANYONE to send me pictures of this quake showing me devastation in an area not hit by the tsunami.
All we have, all the pictures are tsunami damage. Let's see pictures of quake damage. The Kobe quake was a 6.9/7.2 depending on source. That makes this quake, at a 9.0 100X as powerful. Sendai was near the epicenter, where station MYG012 was and would have been devastated if it really happened as stated by the USGS. Look at the earthquake photos of damage from the Kobe quake, and try to find ONE THING SIMILAR in SENDAI. Just try. They do not exist. Outside of the tsunami, the quake which supposedly hit Sendai with many times the power of the one in Kobe, did not destroy a single building there. Sendai was only 48 miles from the epicenter of this "9.0" which would have devastated everything in an area 1,000 miles across if it was real. All of Japan would be toast. Try to find a photo of seismic damage in Sendai. I challenge you. Try to find it in any of the coastal cities, as little as 25 miles from the "epicenter". I looked for 5 hours, and except for some tanks that fell at a brewery not a single one exists. No pictures of collapsed skyscrapers or high rises equals NO 9.0. You will not find a single skyscraper photo where the windows got broken either. You will find no downed power poles, no flipped over cars, no uprooted trees, no derailed trains (except for one the tsunami hit), and the road damage is typical of even a 5.0. You will not find pictures of a single damaged multi story building or even a structurally damaged wood framed house outside the tsunami zone. In Sendai the quake messed up grocery stores and kitchens and that really is about it.
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Teen apologizes for attack caught on tape
Our subject video details an incident in which a 13 year old boy is sucker punched by a 14 year old much bigger boy. The entire event is captured to cam and published on YouTube. The 15 year old get's picked up and charged by the police. He later is interviewed by TV Reporters and is very apologetic for his attack upon the other youth. But! The key to this story is in one of the first things he says,
"When you are doing it you don't even think of it you just think of being cool . . ."
When did we raise our children to be sheep? Hey, if Billy jumps off a bridge, do you do it too? The "cool" kid is not a follower. The "cool" kid doesn't do anything to be cool. He leads and does what he feels like doing because he wants to, not to impress anybody. There is not a single person out there that is "cool" for beating on someone else. It is your immature mind that leads you to believe that just because you are afraid of anyone's disfavor you have to say such an act is cool. If it is not cool if it is done to you, it certainly is not cool when you do it to someone else. GTFU! ( Grow the f^&% up! ) Use your mind. Quit trying to be cool, you will likely not succeed. Cool is derived from not being an offense to humanity. Beating up on somebody makes you an anal orifice, unless you are defending someone from someone that has already earned that position.
Coming to the defense of another is cool. It is also demonstrative of having "heart" and the "guts" to stand for something rather than being a poser trying to achieve cool. As a youngster, you are constantly trying to be old enough to be considered an adult. I know many people of adult age, that are not adults. Being adult means you are smart enough to know the difference between right and wrong. Being an adult means when Billy is picking a bridge to jump from, you aren't planning on how to be cool like Billy. Billy is dead stupid! How the hell is dead, cool? Cool is being able to go to a party and not get so drunk that you puke all over yourself driving home drunk, because everyone else was getting stupid drunk.
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Venue: 399 Joshi Research Center
Title: Linked Data for Enterprise Information Integration
Abstract: Data integration in large enterprises is a crucial but at the same time costly, long lasting and challenging problem. While business-critical information is often already gathered in integrated information systems such as ERP, CRM and SCM systems, the integration of these systems itself as well as the integration with the abundance of other information sources is still a major challenge. Large companies often have hundreds or even thousands of different information systems and databases. We argue that classic SOA architectures are well-suited for transaction processing, but more efficient technologies are available and can be deployed for integrating data. A promising approach is the use of the linked data paradigm for integrating enterprise data. Similarly, as the data web emerged complementing the document web, data intranets can complement the intranets and SOA landscapes currently found in large enterprises. We explore the challenges large enterprises are still facing with regard to data integration. These include in particular the establishing, management and interlinking of enterprise taxonomies, domain databases, collaboration portals, wikis and other enterprise information sources. We survey Linked Data approaches for their solution and present some examples of successful applications of the Linked Data principles in that context.
Biography: Prof. Sören Auer holds the chair for Enterprise Information Systems at University of Bonn and leads a research group at Fraunhofer Institute for Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). Sören has made substantial contributions to social and semantic web technologies, knowledge engineering, usability, as well as databases and information systems. Sören is author of over 80 peer-reviewed scientific publications. Sören is leading the European Union's FP7-ICT flagship project LOD2 comprising 15 partners from 11 countries. He is co-founder of several high-impact research and community projects such as DBpedia, SlideWiki.org, LinkedGeoData and OntoWiki. Organiser and co-programme chair of renowned scientific conferences, area editor of the Semantic Web Journal, serves as an expert for industry, EC, W3C and advisory board member of the Open Knowledge Foundation.
- Dr. Ullas Nambiar, Lead Scientist, EMC India Center of Excellence
When: April 3, 2014
Venue: 399 Joshi Research Center
Title: Scalable Querying of Semantic Web Data Models: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract: The Center for Transformational Innovations (CeTI) at EMC India COE has been chartered with looking at some of fundamental problems afflicting masses in emerging economies. Healthcare and education has come up as the two fundamental pillars on which we can deliver a wholesome human-like life to all citizens. The health of populations is a distinct key issue in public policy discourse in every mature society often determining the deployment of huge society. The first criteria for a just healthcare system is- universal access to an adequate level, and access without excessive burden. In most emerging economies meeting this first criteria itself has been and continuous to be a challenge. In this talk I will highlight the problems in existing Healthcare Systems, present the potential of bringing IT enabled solutions, share the data management, analytics and privacy issues that will arise and conclude with how we at CeTI are engaged in this space.
Biography: Ullas Nambiar is the Lead Scientist at the CTO Office of EMC India COE. He co-leads a team developing solutions for emerging regions. Ullas received his PhD in Computer Science from Arizona State University in 2005 and a BE in Computer Science with Distinction from M.S. University, Vadodara,India. His experience includes stints at IBM Research, UC San Diego, UC Davis, NEC CCRL, and L&T InfoTech.
His primary focus is in solving problems related to efficient Data Management & Analytics brought forth by the proliferation of Mobile Devices, Social Media and Internet of Things. He has authored 50+ papers in top conferences & journals, has several patents granted by USPTO and organized 9 international workshops. Ullas is an ACM Senior Member and Distinguished Speaker.
- Luc Andre
When: October 30, 2013
Venue: 399 Joshi Research Center
Title: Massive Scale Collaborative Editing
Abstract: Since the Web 2.0 era, the Internet is a huge content editing place in which users contribute to the content they browse. Users do not just edit the content but they collaborate on this content. Such shared content can be edited by thousands of people. However, current consistency maintenance algorithms seem not to be adapted to massive collaborative updating. Shared data is usually fragmented into smaller atomic elements that can only be added or removed. Coarse-grained data leads to the possibility of conflicting updates while fine-grained data requires more metadata. In this discussion we offer a solution for handling an adaptable granularity for shared data that overcomes the limitations of fixed-grained data approaches. Our approach defines data at a coarse granularity when it is created and refines its granularity only for facing possible conflicting updates on this data.
Biography: Luc Andre is a 3rd year PH.D Student in Computer Science at Université de Lorraine, in France, and works at the Loria Lab which also partners with INRIA Research Center. His research focuses on algorithms for collaborative editing in the distributed environment.
- Dr. Chris Welty, IBM Research
When: March 29, 2013
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry)
Title: Scalable Querying of Semantic Web Data Models: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract: Watson is a computer system capable of answering rich natural language questions and estimating its confidence in those answers at a level rivaling the best humans at the task. On Feb 14-16, 2011, in an historic event, Watson triumphed over the best Jeopardy! players of all time. In this talk I will discuss how Watson works at a high level with examples from the show, and concentrate on the use of semantic technology in Watson.
Biography: Chris Welty is a Research Scientist at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York. Previously, he taught Computer Science at Vassar College, taught at and received his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and accumulated over 14 years of teaching experience before moving to industrial research. Chris' principal area of research is Knowledge Representation, specifically ontologies and the semantic web, and he spends most of his time applying this technology to Natural Language Question Answering as a member of the DeepQA/Watson team and, in the past, Software Engineering. Dr. Welty was a co-chair of the W3C Rules Interchange Format Working Group (RIF), serves on the steering committee of the Formal Ontology in Information Systems Conferences, is past president of KR.ORG, on the editorial boards of AI Magazine, The Journal of Applied Ontology, and The Journal of Web Semantics, and was an editor in the W3C Web Ontology Working Group. While on sabbatical in 2000, he co-developed the OntoClean methodology with Nicola Guarino. Chris Welty's work on ontologies and ontology methodology has appeared in CACM, and numerous other publications.
- Dr. Kemafor Anyanwu, Semantic Computing Research Lab, North Carolina State University
When: March 29, 2013
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry)
Title: Scalable Querying of Semantic Web Data Models: Challenges and Opportunities
Abstract: Recent advancements in Semantic Web publishing technologies are ushering in the era of "big Semantic Web data". We now have a rapidly growing number of publicly available Semantic Web datasets spanning a variety of domains. Attempting to harness the collective knowledge represented in combinations of these datasets, quickly gives rise to a "big and heterogeneous data" problem. Although, there are numerous research activities now focused on "big data", many of them focus on data that is fairly homogeneous and either completely structured or completely unstructured. However, Semantic Web data models impose very few constraints on structure compared to relational models, leading to graph-like or semi(structured) nature. Further, Semantic Web data collections often contain data expressed using multiple vocabularies or schemas requiring processing that involves reasoning about equivalences that are not explicitly stated. These requirements lead to workloads that do not match assumptions made by traditional relational query optimization techniques. Unfortunately, many existing Semantic Web data query processing techniques still rely on relational-like query optimization techniques and, the impact of this mismatch is much more palpable at large scales. The use of cloud computing platforms to support elastic scaling requirements adds yet another dimension of challenges because several key assumptions underlying traditional query optimization techniques do not transfer to popular platforms like Google's MapReduce. In this talk, I will present an overview of the efforts being undertaken by the Semantic Computing Research Lab at North Carolina State University to address some of these challenges and highlight some open research opportunities.
Biography: Kemafor Anyanwu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and director of the Semantic Computing Research Lab at North Carolina State University. She received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Georgia in 2007. Her research interests include Semantic Web data management, data analytics and mining, and their applications. The two themes of her research activities revolve around developing optimization techniques for large scale Semantic Web data processing and developing query primitives and languages for supporting more sophisticated querying on the Semantic Web. She has served on program committees of different tracks of conferences (ISWC, ICDE, and ICSC) and was on the organizational committee for WWW2010 held in Raleigh. She reviews for journals such as TKDE, IJSWIS and has been a guest editor for IJSWIS. Her work with her student received the best paper award in JIST 2012. Her work is funded by grants from the NSF and industry awards like the IBM Faculty awards.
- Dr. Jennifer Kaminski, Center for Cognition Science & Department of Psychology, Ohio State University
When: September 21, 2012
Venue: Joshi Atrium
Title: The trouble with first impressions: How contextualized instantiations hinder transfer of mathematical knowledge
Abstract: It has been suggested by philosophers and cognitive scientists that mathematical cognition is embodied in the sense that it is grounded in human perception and action. Embodied accounts of cognition often posit that cognition is situated in real-world experiences, and these accounts are frequently extended to advocate that mathematics teaching should also be grounded in human experience. According to such as a position, presenting mathematical concepts through real-world contexts can tap a learner's prior knowledge and facilitate learning. However, a primary goal of learning mathematics is the ability to apply this knowledge to novel situations. Therefore effective teaching should promote not only initial learning but also subsequent transfer of mathematical knowledge. Real-world instantiations of mathematics are typically perceptually and conceptually rich, conveying considerably more extraneous information than their more symbolic counterparts. This extraneous information may remain associated with the learner's interpretation of the mathematical structure consequently constraining the applicability of the mathematical knowledge. In this talk, I will present evidence that acquiring mathematical concepts through contextualized, real-world instantiations can hinder subsequent transfer of knowledge in comparison to acquiring mathematics through more symbolic instantiations. These findings have important implications for the teaching of mathematics because they suggest that while some contextualized instantiations of mathematics may be intuitively appealing and offer a leg-up in the learning process, they may hinder subsequent transfer. Symbolic representations of mathematics may sometimes be more difficult to initially learn, but once acquired they are powerful in the sense that they enable the learner to recognize mathematical structures in real-world situations.
Biography: Jennifer Kaminski holds bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and a doctorate in mathematics education with a focus on psychology and cognitive science. She has worked in the field of actuarial consulting and also taught undergraduate mathematics. Currently, she is a research scientist at the Ohio State University Center for Cognitive Science and Department of Psychology. The primary focus of her research has been the acquisition and application of mathematical structures.
- Dr. Robert Goldstone, Department of Pyschological and Brain Science, Indiana University
When: September 21, 2012
Venue: Joshi Atrium
Title: Mathematical Reasoning as a Literally Physical Symbol System
Abstract: Much of the power of mathematics comes from its generality and ability to unify prime face dissimilar domains. By one account, analytic thought in math and science requires developing deep construals of phenomena that run counter to untutored perceptions. This approach draws an opposition between superficial perception and principled understanding. In this talk, I advocate the converse strategy of grounding mathematical reasoning in perception and action. I will describe empirical evidence for perceptual changes that accompany learning in mathematics. In arithmetic and algebraic reasoning, we find that proficiency involves executing spatially explicit transformations to notational elements. People learn to attend mathematical operations in the order in which they should be executed, and the extent to which students employ their perceptual attention in this manner is positively correlated with their mathematical experience. People produce mathematical notations that they are good at reading. Perceptual and attentional processes are tailored to fit mathematical requirements. Thus, for reasoning in mathematics, relatively sophisticated performance can be achieved not only by ignoring perceptual features in favor of deep conceptual features, but also by adapting perceptual processing so as to conform with and support formally sanctioned responses. These "Rigged Up Perceptual Systems" (RUPS) offer a promising strategy for achieving educational reform. Based on the theoretical foundation of RUPS, we have designed and implemented a virtual, interactive sandbox for students to explore algebra. At the end of this talk, I will describe experiments that explore the use of this system by 11-19 year old students.
Biography: Robert Goldstone is a Chancellor's Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences. He won the 1996 Chase Memorial Award for Outstanding Young Researcher in Cognitive Science, the 2000 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of Cognition and Human Learning, and a 2004 Troland research award from the National Academy of Sciences. He served as editor of Cognitive Science from 2001-2005, and Director of the Indiana University Cognitive Science Program from 2005-2011. His primary research interest is in building computational models of human learning, and he has conducted research on similarity, perceptual learning, concept learning, and collective behavior.
- Dr. E. Michael Maximilien, IBM Research
When: July 26, 2012
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry)
Title: The IBM PaaS: from inception in research project Altocumulus to customers as IBM Pure Application Systems
Abstract: In this talk I will describe the evolution of the IBM Platform-as-a-Service or IBM PureApplication System, a member of the IBM PureSystems [1] family of PaaS and private IaaS cloud products and services [2]. Our journey will take us from a little known cloud research project (IBM Altocumulus [3][4]) to its current manifestation as IBM PureApplication System and the many forms it took in between. I will try to draw some lessons learned in the three year journey, highlighting how IBM Research does "research" (from my opinion) as well as what works well in this type of industry research setting and what does not.
Biography: Dr. E. Michael Maximilien (also know as Max) is a Research Scientist at IBM Research. Max's primary research interests lie in distributed systems and software engineering for the web; in particular, web APIs and services, mashups, cloud computing, social software, and Agile methods and practices. His most recent research project heavily influenced IBM Workload Deployer and now IBM PureSystems family of IaaS and PaaS. Max is an active participant and contributor to communities related to Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and Agile methods and practices, inside and outside of IBM.
- Dr. Alexandre Passant, DERI, NUI Galway
When: February 8-12, 2011
Venue: 365 Joshi Research Center
Title: Semantic microblogging and citizen sensing and Lightweight ontologies for citizen sensing / integrating Social networks and sensor networks
Biography: Founder / CEO / Chief-Hacker at seevl.net, a music-tech start-up, building new tools and solutions in the music discovery space. seevl is spin-out of DERI, where I was previously a Research Fellow / Unit Leader, and I'm still part-time Associate Researcher - and Adjunct Lecturer at NUI Galway. I'm also active in several W3C groups, I regularly speak and publish in international conferences, and I am a Scientific Advisor for Mesagraph, a start-up that derives meaningful insights from Twitter streams.
I love to build, learn and share. I'm trying to make the Web a better place, and – most important – I'm having fun doing it.
- Dr. Dan Gruhl, IBM Research-Almaden
When: April 12, 2010
Venue: 365 Joshi Research Center
Title: Semantic Super Computing
Abstract: Several years ago we started exploring what you could do with text if there was no limit on the size of the corpus or the amount of computation you could use on it. The result was a number of applications that help find interesting insights into the information hidden in these corpora - everything from what TV show 20-something women prefer to what the color of the web is.
Biography: Daniel Gruhl IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Rd., San Jose, CA 95120. Dr. Gruhl is a Research Staff Member in the Computer Science Department at the Almaden Research Center. He received his B.S('94), M.Eng.('95) and PhD('00) degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He subsequently joined IBM at the Almaden Research Center where he has worked on large scale text analytics systems. He has received Outstanding Technology Awards for both the WebFountain system and the UIMA standard for text analytics. He is an author or coauthor of at least a dozen patents and two dozen papers. Dr. Gruhl is a member of the IEEE and ACM.
- Dr. Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine
When: November 4th, 2011
Venue: 145 Russ Engineering
Title: Social Life Networks
Abstract: We are living in an age of social media that provides numerous channels for digital expression and sharing almost instantaneously in any part of the world. By bringing different media as well as modes of distribution—focused, narrowcast, and broadcast—social networks (SN) have revolutionized communication among people. I believe that by using the enormous reach of mobile phones equipped with myriad sensors,the next generation of social networks can be designed not only to connect people with other people, but also to connect people with essential life resources. I call these networks Social Life Networks (SLN) and believe that this is the right time to focus efforts to discover and develop technology and infrastructure to design and build these networks. I will discuss my approach to building SLNs and will identify challenges that must be addressed to make SLNs practical. I will also discuss their implications for masses in emerging countries, the Middle of the Pyramid, and the technology development in making that practical.
Biography: Dr. Ramesh Jain joined the University of California, Irvine as the first Bren Professor in the Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences in 2005. Dr. Jain has been an active researcher in multimedia information systems, image databases, machine vision, and intelligent systems. While he was a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and the University of California, San Diego, he founded and directed artificial intelligence and visual computing labs. He has co-founded three companies and his current research is in experiential computing and its applications.
- Dr. Ying Ding and colleagues, Indiana University
When: November 6, 2009
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
Title: chem2bio2rdf: Semantic Systems Chemical Biology
Abstract: In this talk, we describe the use Semantic Web technologies including RDF and OWL for the integration of chemical, biological and genomic information within the context of Systems Chemical Biology. We describe how two existing resources, Bio2RDF and Linking Open Drug Data (LODD) can be integrated with chemistry-oriented networks to create large-scale systems chemical biology networks that allow links between compounds, protein targets, genes and diseases to be established. In this work, we describe the generation of this Chem2Bio2RDF network and how it can be analyzed in a variety of ways including the use of Semantic Lenses.
Title: Social tagging networks: Cohesiveness and Dynamics
Abstract: In this talk, we describe the use Semantic Web technologies including RDF and OWL for the integration of chemical, biological and genomic information within the context of Systems Chemical Biology. We describe how two existing resources, Bio2RDF and Linking Open Drug Data (LODD) can be integrated with chemistry-oriented networks to create large-scale systems chemical biology networks that allow links between compounds, protein targets, genes and diseases to be established. In this work, we describe the generation of this Chem2Bio2RDF network and how it can be analyzed in a variety of ways including the use of Semantic Lenses.
Title: Social tagging networks: Cohesiveness and Dynamics
Abstract: This talk proposes an approach to studying the structure and dynamics of large cohesive groups of tags in online social networks. Given a tag co-occurrence graph defined over a particular time span, the cohesive subgroups of tags are modeled using the graph theoretic concept of a k-plex, which was originally introduced in the social network analysis literature. This model can be thought of as a relaxed, more practical version of the popular clique model that is obtained by allowing a predetermined (and typically small) number k of non-neighbors for each vertex within the group. Intuitively, a maximum k-plex in the graph should be related to one of the most popular topics discussed in the network, and the size of a maximum k-plex can serve as a reasonable global measure of cohesiveness of the network. Moreover, study of the structure and dynamics of changes in the maximum k-plex of the tag co-occurrence graph of the same social network over time can be used to deduce some interesting information about the underlying social network. We illustrate the proposed method on a large set of dynamic data extracted from Delicious social bookmarking community.
Title: Weighted PageRank for heterogeneous scholarly networks
Abstract: Large scale weighted PageRank can be calculated for heterogeneous citation network, author-citation networks and journal citation networks. Weights are considered as citation time, self-citation, journal impact factors. Weighted PR ranks have been compared with normal citation rank. This method can be easily extended to other heterogeneous networks. Potential interesting issues are dangling nodes, heuristic parameter settings.
Biography: Dr. Ying Ding is an Assistant Professor in School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University. Before she worked as a senior researcher at the University of Innsbruck, Austria and as a researcher at the Division of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She completed her Ph.D. in School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She has been involved in various European-Union funded projects: research-oriented EU projects (EASAIER, OntoKnowledge, IBROW, SWWS, COG, Htechsight, Esperanto, SEKT, DIP, Triple Space Computing), thematic network (Ontoweb, KnowledgeWeb), and Accompanied Measurements (Multiple). She is very active in many consultancy projects between University and companies. She has published more than 70 papers in journals, conferences and workshops. She is Program Committee Member for more than 80 international conferences and workshops. She is co-author of the book "Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce" published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. She is also co-author of book chapters in the book "Spinning the Semantic Web" published by MIT Press and "Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-driven Knowledge Management" published by Wiley. Her current interest areas include Webometrics, Semantic Web, citation analysis, information retrieval, knowledge management and application of Web Technology.
- Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham & Dr. Latifur Khan, University of Texas at Dallas
When: November 13, 2009
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
AbstractOntology alignment determines the semantic heterogeneity between two or more domain specifications by considering their associated concepts. Our approach considers name, structural and content matching techniques for aligning ontologies. Together with UMN, we justify the conceptual validity of our ontology alignment technique with a series of experimental results that demonstrate the efficacy and utility of our algorithms on a wide-variety of authentic GIS data including multi-jurisdictions.
The second part of the presentation deals with scalable storage and retrieval of large RDF graph. Currently available semantic web frameworks do not work well for this retrieval task. In this talk, we describe a framework that we built using Hadoop to store and retrieve large number of RDF triples. We describe a scheme to store RDF data in Hadoop Distributed File System. We also describe our algorithms to generate the best possible query plan to answer a SPARQL (SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language) query based on a cost model. We use Hadoop's MapReduce framework to actually answer the queries. Our results show that we can store large RDF graphs in Hadoop clusters built with cheap commodity class hardware. We conclude that our framework is scalable and efficient and can handle large amounts of RDF data.
Acknowledgements: Our research on semantic web is supported by the National Science Foundation, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency.
Biographies: Bhavani Thuraisingham is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) since October 2004. Dr. Thuraisingham teaches courses in Data Security and Semantic Web, and her research is sponsored by NSF, AFOSR, IARPA, NGA, NASA and Raytheon among others. Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham worked for the MITRE Corporation for 16 years which included an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation as Program Director for Data and Applications Security. At MITRE she was a Department Head in Data and Information Management, and established research programs with AFRL, CECOM, SPAWAR, NSA and CIA. Prior to joining MITRE in January 1983, she worked in the Commercial Industry for six years first at the Control Data Corporation and later at Honeywell Inc. She has also worked as adjunct professor of computer science first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University. She has been an instructor at AFCEA since 1998. Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.
Professor Thuraisingham is an elected Fellow of three professional organizations: the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers), the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and the BCS (British Computer Society) for her work in data security. She received the IEEE Computer Society's prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for Outstanding and Innovative contributions secure data management. Dr. Thuraisingham received her education in the United Kingdom at the University of Bristol and the University of Wales. She was quoted by Silicon India Magazine as one of the top seven technology innovators of South Asian Origin in the USA in 2002.
Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in Arlington VA, from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF, she established the Data and Applications Security Program, co-founded the Cyber Trust theme and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She worked at MITRE in Bedford, MA between January 1989 and September 2001 first in the Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management in the Intelligence and Air Force centers. She has served as an expert consultant in information security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham's industry experience includes six years of research and development at Control Data Corp. and Honeywell Inc. in Minneapolis, MN. While she was in Industry and MITRE, she was an adjunct professor of computer science and member of the graduate faculty first at the University of Minnesota and later at Boston University between 1984 and 2001. She also worked as visiting professor soon after her PhD first at the New Mexico Institute of Technology and later at the University of Minnesota between 1980 and 1983.
Dr. Thuraisingham's work in Information Security and Data Mining has resulted in over 90 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers, over 70 keynote addresses, and three US patents. She is the ahor of nine books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism and another on Database and Applications Security and is completing her tenth book on SEcure Service Oriented Information Systems. Dr. Thuraisingham has been invited to speak on data mining for security applications at the United Nations and at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and has also participated in panels at the National Academy of Sciences and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. She is the President of Bhavani Security Consulting, and supports the Department of Treasury on Software Research Credit. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of leading research and industry journals including several IEEE and ACM Transactions and served as the Editor in Chief of Computer Standards and Interfaces Journal. She is also an Instructor at AFCEA (Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association) Professional Development Center since 1998 and has served on panel for the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board and the National Academy of Sciences.
During her nearly five years at UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham has established and lead a strong research program in Intelligence and Security Informatics which now includes 4 core professors, and the team has generated over $9m in research funding from agencies such as NSF, AFOSR, IARPA, NGA, NASA and ONR as well as corporations such as Raytheon Inc. The research projects include an NSF Career Grant, an AFOSR Young Investigator Program Award and a DoD MURI Award. Her current focus includes two activities: i) studying how terrorists and hackers function so that effective and improved solutions can be provided and ii) transferring the technologies developed at the university to commercial development efforts.
Dr. Thuraisingham promotes Math and Science to high school students as well as to women and underrepresented minorities and has given featured addresses at conferences sponsored by WITI and SWE. Articles on her efforts as well as her vision have appeared in multiple magazines including the Dallas Morning News, The D Magazine, The MITRE Matters and the DFW Metropolis Technology Magazine. She has also appeared in DFW Television speaking on cyber security related topics.
Dr. Thuraisingham promotes Math and Science to high school students as well as to women and underrepresented minorities and has given featured addresses at conferences sponsored by WITI and SWE. Articles on her efforts as well as her vision have appeared in multiple magazines including the Dallas Morning News, The D Magazine, The MITRE Matters and the DFW Metropolis Technology Magazine. She has also appeared in DFW Television speaking on cyber security related topics.
Latifur Khan is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas and joined the university in 2000 after completing his PhD at the University of Southern California on Ontology Management under Prof. Dennis McLeod. His research interests are in Data Mining for Cyber Security, Semantic Web and Geospatial information management and research is funded by NSF, AFOSR, IARPA, NGA, NASA, Raytheon, Nokia and Cisco. He has published papers in VLDB Journal and several IEEE Transactions as well as in conferences such as ICDM, ACM Multimedia and ECML/PKDD. He is the co-author of the book Design and Implementation of Data Mining Tools for CRC Press. He is a senior member of IEEE.
- Dr. Pankaj Mehra, Chief Scientist at HP Labs Russia, Technical Lead at taxonom.com
When: October 21, 2009
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
Title: Beyond Search: 5 Steps to Insight
Abstract: Evidence points to the reason why blind application of Web search to enterprises produces undesirable outcomes. First, enterprises are lagging the Web in achieving richly connected information. Second, the level of specificity of meaning and the depth of modeling expected by enterprise users are both higher than by consumers. In this talk, I will show the first houses we have built on the semantic foundations for enterprise search we laid in our previous work.
The talk will begin with an analysis of how people, processes and infrastructure are currently deployed in information-rich businesses in order to make sense of tens of petabytes of open and proprietary information. I will discuss why existing architectures "especially, their implied cost and delay structures" do not scale to the demands and opportunities thrown open by new economic and business models around information. I will then argue that in order to architect for exabytes and beyond, businesses need to make a switch to architecting their information services around an economy of plenty (away from architecting around the economy of dearth that gave us search).
In the process, we will turn on its head the very problem that motivates search technology, for instance, asking and answering the fundamental question: Is it not already too late if you have to look for something? I will present architectures for delivery and sense-making. At the heart of these systems lies an engine that shortens the path from "Got it.Got it!" to insight. We will show how to couple this engine with context-mapping technologies in order to move beyond searching for documents to having the right insights delivered into the right heads at the right time. The talk concludes with blueprints from information-heavy industries, such as financial and legal services, which I expect will become widely adopted in the near future.
Biography: Pankaj Mehra is an HP Distinguished Technologist, Chief Scientist and founder of HP Labs Russia, and technical leader of HP's Taxonom.com ontology generation service. He was core architect of HP's NonStovanced Architecture, lead architect of HP's Integrated Archive Platform, and chairman of InfiniBand Trade Association's Management Working Group. He holds an Industry Visitor position at Stanford University.
- Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University
When: September 9, 2009
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
Title: Toward Visual Knowledge Discovery and Analytics
Abstract: Knowledge discovery and data mining is a process whose goal is to extract interpretable and actionable information from complex (potentially large) data. Visualization can play an important role in this exploratory process. Indeed, a number of important scientific discoveries have ultimately relied on visual confirmation from Galileo seeing the moons of Jupiter to Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer seeing atoms on a surface. Visualization can also play an important role in understanding the nature of a problem domain and subsequently the patterns governing the underlying solution space. In this talk I will talk about our vision on the roles visualization can play in the knowledge discovery process. Specifically we will examine the use of visualization:
- As a mechanism to facilitate exploration of complex datasets.
- As a means to validate and confirm results obtained from the discovery process.
- As an approach to understand and lend transparency to the discovery process.
In each case I will attempt to illustrate the roles in the context of specific end applications drawn from the domains of physics of materials, bioinformatics, social network analysis and clinical diagnosis of eye disease. No prior knowledge of data mining, knowledge discovery, visualization or any of these application domains will be assumed.
Biography: Dr. Srinivasan Parthasarathy (PhD, University of Rochester), is currently an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Ohio State University (OSU). His research interests are broadly in the areas of Data Mining, Databases, Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing. He is a recipient of an NSF CAREER award in 2003, a DOE Early Career Award in 2004, an Ameritech Faculty fellowship in 2001 and an IBM Faculty Award in 2007. His papers have received five best paper awards from leading conferences in the field, including ones at SIAM international conference on data mining (SDM), IEEE international conference on data mining (ICDM), the Very Large Databases Conference (VLDB) and most recently at ACM Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD). He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE and has served on the program committees of leading conferences in the fields of data mining, databases, and high performance computing. He currently serves on the editorial boards of several journals including the Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Journal (DMKDJ), the IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPDJ), and the IEEE Intelligent Systems (IEEE-IS) journal. He served as one of the program chairs of SIAM Data Mining in 2007 and is currently serving as one of the general chairs for the 2009-2010 editions.
- Dr. Olivier Bodenreider, MD, National Institutes of Health
When: May 27, 2009
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
Title: Ontologies and Data Integration in Biomedicine Seminar
Abstract: Review examples of successful biomedical data integration projects in which ontologies play an important role, including the integration of genomic data based on Gene Ontology annotations, the cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project, and semantic mashups created by the Semantic Web for Health Care and Life Sciences community. Challenges to data integration in biomedicine will also be discussed.
Biography: Dr. Bodenreider is a Research Scientist at the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications, US National Library of Medicine, NIH. His research interests include terminology, knowledge representation and ontology in the biomedical domain, both from a theoretical perspective and in their application to natural language understanding, reasoning, information visualization and integration. Dr. Bodenreider is a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics. He received a M.D. degree from the University of Strasbourg, France in 1990 and a Ph.D. in Medical Informatics from the University of Nancy, France in 1993. Before joining NLM in 1996, he was an assistant professor for Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Nancy, France, Medical School.
- Dr. Thomas C. Rindflesch, National Institutes of Health
When: October 8, 2010
Venue: 292 Joshi (Brandeberry Conference Room)
Title: Extracting Semantic Predications from Biomedical Text
Abstract: SemRep is a symbolic natural language processing system that identifies semantic predications in biomedical text. For example, "Acetylcholine STIMULATES Nitric Oxide" is extracted from the sentence "In humans, ACh evoked a dose-dependent increase of NO levels in exhaled air." The system is linguistically based and depends on domain knowledge in the Unified Medical Language System. Underspecified interpretation for a range of syntactic structures is provided, rather than detailed representation for a limited number of phenomena. Thirty core predications in clinical medicine, genetic etiology of disease, pharmacogenomics, and molecular biology are retrieved. Several evaluations report precision around 75% and recall near 65% (both lower for molecular biology). SemRep predications have been exploited for text mining applications in genetic etiology of disease, automatic summarization, literature-based discovery, and enhanced information retrieval.
Biography: Dr. Rindflesch has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Minnesota and currently leads the Semantic Knowledge Representation project, which conducts research in natural language processing methodology and develops innovative applications for advanced access to information in MEDLINE citations.
- Dr. Alfredo Cuzzocrea, PhD Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking
When: October 13, 2011, 11:00AM - 12:00PM
Venue: Joshi Atrium
Title: Knowledge Discovery From Sensors and Stream
Biography: Alfredo Cuzzocrea is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council, Italy, and an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems of the University of Calabria, Italy. His research interests include multidimensional data modeling and querying, data stream modeling and querying, data warehousing and OLAP, OLAM, XML data management, Web information systems modeling and engineering, knowledge representation and management models and techniques, Grid and P2P computing. He is author or co-author of more than 150 papers. He also serves as PC Chair in several international conferences and as Guest Editor in international journals like JCSS, DKE, IS, KAIS, IJBIDM, IJDMMM and JDIM.


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Epidemiologic Notes and Reports Bacteremia Associated with Reuse Of Disposable Hollow-Fiber Hemodialyzers
Since May 6, 1986, CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have received reports from four free-standing hemodialysis clinics of clusters of patients with gram-negative bacteremia. These patients were undergoing maintenance hemodialysis at clinics in which disposable hollow-fiber hemodialyzers were reused on the same patient after disinfection with a recently introduced chemical germicide, RenNew-D (manufactured by Alcide Corporation, Norwalk, Connecticut, and solely distributed by Cobe Laboratories, Inc., Lakewood, Colorado).
CDC and FDA have participated in investigations of these clusters at two of the four clinics. A total of nine patients at these two clinics met a case definition of intradialytic sepsis based on the following criteria: (1) absence of signs or symptoms of infection at the initiation of the dialysis session; (2) presence of one or more of the following signs or symptoms during the dialysis session: shaking chills, fever, hypotension, nausea, vomiting; and (3) growth of gram-negative microorganisms from blood cultures obtained during or following the dialysis session. Review of microbiologic records in these centers showed no clusters of gram-negative bacteremia during the preceding 6 months. All the patients were treated with parenteral antimicrobials and recovered without apparent sequelae. Microorganisms isolated from the blood cultures included Pseudomonas aeruginosa (five patients), P. maltophilia (three), Acinetobacter calcoaceticus (var. lwoffi) (three), P. putida (one), and Alcaligenes denitrificans (one). Three patients had two or more microorganisms isolated from their blood. These two hemodialysis clinics had been using RenNew-D for reprocessing of hemodialyzers for 6 weeks and 4 months, respectively, before the first documented case of bacteremia.
Microbiologic investigation of hemodialyzers at one of the four clinics showed bacterial contamination of the blood compartment in 10 of 20 hemodialyzers after reprocessing with RenNew-D during the week of June 9. For the 17 hemodialyzers for which the number of reuses was documented, the number of previous uses ranged from one to 50. Changes in the mixing and handling of RenNew-D were subsequently made by the staff at the hemodialysis clinic after consultation with representatives of the manufacturer and distributor of the product. Following these changes, cultures were performed of: (1) RenNew-D drained from stored reprocessed hemodialyzers; (2) saline that had been used to rinse the blood circuits, including the interiors of reprocessed hemodialyzers and other components of the blood circuits, before dialysis; and (3) blood obtained from the blood circuit during the patients' dialyses. Gram-negative microorganisms were identified in none of 137 samples of RenNew-D, in seven (6%) of 108 samples of the predialysis saline rinse, and in blood cultures from 11 (11%) of 102 patients.
It has not been determined why hemodialyzers showed evidence of contamination after reprocessing with RenNew-D. The manufacturer has initiated a voluntary recall of all lots of the product. Studies are in progress to evaluate the source and possible causes of these clusters. Reported by GT Flynn, Community Dialysis Svcs, Inglewood, SH Waterman, MD, Los Angeles County Health Dept, SB Werner, MD, California Dept of Health Svcs; TF Parker, MD, Dallas Kidney Disease Center, G Green, MD, CE Haley, MD, Dallas County Health Dept, CE Alexander, MD, State Epidemiologist, Texas Dept of Health; Center for Devices and Radiologic Health, US Food and Drug Administration; Hospital Infections Program, Center for Infectious Diseases, CDC.
Editorial Note
Editorial Note: The practice of disinfecting and reusing hemodialyzers labeled "for single use only" has been adopted by more than 50% of hemodialysis centers responding to surveys of dialysis-associated diseases (1). Bacterial contamination resulting in patient infections has previously been documented in hemodialyzers that were reprocessed with benzalkonium chloride (2,3) and 2% formaldehyde (4).
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According to David J. Adams:
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Friday, 8 November, 2002, 10:32 GMT
Dhaka politician 'confused' in jail
Saber Hossain Chowdhury is one of the most high profile of about 5,000 people who have been arrested by troops since they were asked by the government to help restore law and order.
Saber Hossain Chowdhury's supporters say it is ludicrous that he should have been arrested as part of the government's campaign to eradicate violent crime.
They say he is a political rather than a criminal prisoner and the government is using the army to silence its political opponents.
Mr Chowdhury's brother, Sadeq, is the first family member to have been allowed to visit him in prison since his arrest over two weeks ago.
He told the BBC: "He's under a lot of stress. He appeared quite pale and seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
"Also the fact that he hasn't had access to lawyers, as yet, to visit him to discuss with him the various charges."
The human rights group, Amnesty International, has expressed serious concerns about Mr Chowdhury's arrest, along with other members of the opposition.
They are also worried about the number of people who have died in military custody since the army deployment, known as Operation Clean Heart, began.
Concerns about the army's new role have also been expressed by the American State Department.
But the government says that troops have significantly lowered violent crime and made Bangladesh a safer place.
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