- From: Susie M Stephens <STEPHENS_SUSIE_M@LILLY.COM>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:16:24 -0400
- To: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
- Cc: Li Ding <dingl@cs.rpi.edu>
Li Ding has asked me to forward this mail to you. Cheers, Susie ----------------------- (apology for cross posting) You are invited to ISWC 2008, the major international forum for the Semantic Web. The conference serves introductory tutorials, cutting-edge research presentation, exhibitions of the latest business products, and many social activities. It also offers great social networking opportunities for meeting academic leaders, industrial practitioners, researchers, developers, and students. ==Attending Conference== ISWC 2008 will be held in Karlsruhe Germany, October 26-30, 2008. http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/ Please register online by October 9 to save 100 eu and take advantage of special hotel offers which are good if made four weeks in advance. http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/registration/ ==Highlights of the Conference Program== * 11 tutorials on, e.g., Introduction to Semantic Web, Ontology, RDFa, Multimedia, Business Intelligence, Health Care, Applications, Linked Data. (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/tutorials) * 13 workshops on, e.g., e-science, semantic reasoning, software engineering, web service, knowledge extraction, scalability, and social network. (http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/workshops) * 10 keynote and invited industrial talks - Multimedia Semantic Web, Ramesh Jain (UCI) - Freebase: An Open, Writable, John Giannandre (Metaweb Technologies) - How can the Semantic Web Community be more convincing, Stefan Decker, (DERI Galway, Ireland) - Semantic Wikis: Fusing the two strands of the Semantic Web, Mark Greaves (Vulcan Inc.) - Internet of Services, York Sure (SAP Research) - Semantic Web @ BBN, Mike Dean (BBN) - Data Intelligence, Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft Research) - Semantic Web in Asia: Example Use Cases, Tony Lee (SaltLux) - Making the Web searchable, Peter Mika (Yahoo Inc), - Semantic Web from an industry perspective, Jürgen Angele (Ontoprise) * 57 paper presentations, including 14 in Semantic Web in-use track * 55 posters and 32 demonstrations, a panel on OWL2, and lightning talks * social events, social networking, reception, banquet and dancing. - see http://iswc2008.semanticweb.org/program/social-events/ - see http://iswc2008.crowdvine.com/ for meeting people * co-located events: RR'2008 and OWLED'2008 The complete conference program is available at http://tinyurl.com/iswc08-pdf.
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