From DHall1 at BioLabinc.com Wed Oct 1 13:06:06 2003 From: DHall1 at BioLabinc.com (Hall, Deanna) Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 13:06:06 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] RE: [Sigsti-l] Bioinformatics Program Survey Message-ID: <56BAC024F33ED611A53E0002A51348443F3E92@BLUE> A suggestion to SIG/STI. How about a list of cheminformatics programs also? Deanna Morrow Hall Knowledge Center Manager BioLab, Inc. P.O. Box 300002 Lawrenceville GA 30049 678-502-4097 dhall1 at biolabinc.com -----Original Message----- From: Brad Hemminger [mailto:bmh at tardis.ils.unc.edu] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:13 AM To: sigmed-l at asis.org; sigsti-l at asis.org Subject: [Sigsti-l] Bioinformatics Program Survey [This message is being distributed to multiple lists. I apologize if you're seeing this multiple times.] We have compiled a list of bioinformatics undergraduate and graduate degree or certificate granting academic programs in the US. This is the 2nd revision (July 2003). We welcome feedback on this survey, and would especially appreciate any corrections or additions, as this material will be part of a journal publication in the near future. The survey is available at http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/bioinfo/Bioinformatics_Programs_Brief_7-13-03.htm More complete details are available at http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/bioinfo/Bioinformatics_Programs_Complete_7-13-03.xls Sincerely, Brad Hemminger Bradley Hemminger Ph.D. Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science Department of Radiology 206A Manning Hall School of Medicine University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7510 (919) 966-2998 (919) 966-2998 (919) 962-8071 (fax) (919) 843-8740 (fax) bmh at ils.unc.edu bmh at ils.unc.edu Joint Appointment in the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences http://genomics.unc.edu Bioinformatics at School of Information and Library Science http://ils.unc.edu/bioinfo Digital Libraries at UNC-CH http://ils.unc.edu/cradle _______________________________________________ Sigsti-l mailing list Sigsti-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigsti-l From wiggins at indiana.edu Thu Oct 2 09:52:07 2003 From: wiggins at indiana.edu (Wiggins, Gary D.) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2003 08:52:07 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] RE: [Sigsti-l] Bioinformatics Program Survey Message-ID: <0C23E119E9C61242B261288F96DB773F0114473C@iu-mssg-mbx08.exchange.iu.edu> I've made a start at a chemical informatics directory by providing some links to programs in this area at: http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/informatics/cinformacad.html Gary Wiggins Director, Program in Chemical Informatics Interim Director, Program in Bioinformatics Adjunct Professor of Informatics School of Informatics 901 East Tenth Street Bloomington, Indiana 47408-3912 Phone: 812-856-1086 Fax: 812-856-4764 -----Original Message----- From: Hall, Deanna [mailto:DHall1 at BioLabinc.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 12:06 PM To: 'Brad Hemminger'; 'sigmed-l at asis.org'; 'sigsti-l at asis.org' Subject: RE: [Sigsti-l] Bioinformatics Program Survey A suggestion to SIG/STI. How about a list of cheminformatics programs also? Deanna Morrow Hall Knowledge Center Manager BioLab, Inc. P.O. Box 300002 Lawrenceville GA 30049 678-502-4097 dhall1 at biolabinc.com -----Original Message----- From: Brad Hemminger [mailto:bmh at tardis.ils.unc.edu] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 10:13 AM To: sigmed-l at asis.org; sigsti-l at asis.org Subject: [Sigsti-l] Bioinformatics Program Survey [This message is being distributed to multiple lists. I apologize if you're seeing this multiple times.] We have compiled a list of bioinformatics undergraduate and graduate degree or certificate granting academic programs in the US. This is the 2nd revision (July 2003). We welcome feedback on this survey, and would especially appreciate any corrections or additions, as this material will be part of a journal publication in the near future. The survey is available at http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/bioinfo/Bioinformatics_Programs_Brief_7-13-03.htm More complete details are available at http://ils.unc.edu/bmh/bioinfo/Bioinformatics_Programs_Complete_7-13-03. xls Sincerely, Brad Hemminger Bradley Hemminger Ph.D. Assistant Professor Adjunct Assistant Professor School of Information and Library Science Department of Radiology 206A Manning Hall School of Medicine University of North Carolina University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3360 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7510 (919) 966-2998 (919) 966-2998 (919) 962-8071 (fax) (919) 843-8740 (fax) bmh at ils.unc.edu bmh at ils.unc.edu Joint Appointment in the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences http://genomics.unc.edu Bioinformatics at School of Information and Library Science http://ils.unc.edu/bioinfo Digital Libraries at UNC-CH http://ils.unc.edu/cradle _______________________________________________ Sigsti-l mailing list Sigsti-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigsti-l _______________________________________________ Sigsti-l mailing list Sigsti-l at asis.org http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigsti-l From joleethompson at earthlink.net Tue Oct 7 08:55:48 2003 From: joleethompson at earthlink.net (JOLINDA THOMPSON) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 08:55:48 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] Reminder: ISI/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award Message-ID: <008a01c38cd2$550ea5f0$6401a8c0@P3LAPTOP> Frank Bradway Rogers Award - Nominations due by November 1! MLA recognizes that there are many innovators in our profession, inventing new information services and using technology in creative ways. Maybe you are one of them? Or maybe you work with or know someone who is? We encourage you to take a moment to think about what your colleagues are contributing and nominate their innovations for the ISI/Frank Bradway Rogers Information Advancement Award. The award is presented annually by the Medical Library Association and sponsored by the Institute for Scientific Information. It recognizes an outstanding MLA member OR members contributions for/to: 1) the application of technology to the delivery of health science information, 2) the science of information, or 3) the facilitation of the delivery of health science information. Award winners will be given a prize of $500 and will be formally recognized at the Annual Meeting of the Medical Library Association, May 21-26, 2004 in Washington, DC. For more information on the award and past winners go to: http://mlanet.org/awards/honors/rogers.html For a copy of the nomination form, eligibility information, and instructions click here: http://mlanet.org/pdf/awards/rogers_nom_200304.pdf All nominations are due by November 1, 2003. Please forward this message to colleagues who might be interested. JoLinda Thompson Systems Librarian Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library George Washington University Medical Center -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sigir2004announce at retrieve.shef.ac.uk Tue Oct 14 05:55:01 2003 From: sigir2004announce at retrieve.shef.ac.uk (SIGIR 2004 Announcement) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:55:01 +0100 Subject: [Sigmed-l] CFP: SIGIR 2004 Mentoring Program Message-ID: Apologies for any cross postings CFP: SIGIR 2004 Mentoring Program SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval. The SIGIR Mentoring Program If you would like help with your SIGIR 2004 submission, you may ask for a mentor. A mentor is a person who will help you with your submission to the SIGIR audience through one-on-one advising, usually via e-mail. A mentor can also familiarize you with the standards and deadlines of SIGIR submissions. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions. Mentors may be available for both full papers and posters. To request a mentor, please send email to mentoring_sigir at acm.org. Please include a description of your work (an abstract is a minimum requirement), an indication of whether you are presently planning a full paper or a poster, and any specific questions or areas in which you would like help. If you wish to ask for a mentor, we strongly encourage you to contact us before the November 14, 2003 deadline. A mentor's feedback will be most useful to you if it is early enough to influence the way you focus your work, not just the way you write it up for the conference. Reasonable expectations for a mentor might include giving advice as to the most appropriate forum for you work, suggesting improvements to your submission, suggesting how to deal with language problems or referring you to relevant research of which you might not have been aware. Typically, a mentor might spend 3-7 hours on a submission. We carefully match mentors to mentees, and wish to support you in getting your work focused into a high quality submission with a good chance of being accepted and published. Mentoring Program Chair: Doug Oard The 27th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference will be held at The University of Sheffield, UK, from July 25 to July 29, 2004. SIGIR 2004 Website: http://sigir.org/sigir2004/ From rhill at asis.org Tue Oct 14 09:00:50 2003 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:00:50 -0400 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST Website Redesign Survey Message-ID: <4114-22003102141305098@dickxp> Dear ASIST members: A team of ASIST members and volunteers is helping assess the Society's website for a redesign. You are invited to assist us by taking 15 minutes to complete an online survey: http://tinyurl.com/qsg5 The survey will ask about your content preferences and experiences with the current site. I hope you will take the time to participate. Your opinions are important in helping us develop a website that addresses the needs of its users and supports the ASIST Mission. Feel free to share the survey URL with non members who might be interested in participating. Please remember to take the survey only once. Thank you very much. Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From rhill at asis.org Mon Oct 27 09:40:13 2003 From: rhill at asis.org (Richard Hill) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:40:13 -0500 Subject: [Sigmed-l] ASIST Website Redesign Survey Message-ID: <4114-2200310127144013741@dickxp> Dear ASIST member (and all others on the list): If you've already answered the ASIST web redesign survey -- Thank You. If you have not answered the survey -- there is still time! We hope that you will share your opinions with us -- it will only take about 15 minutes of your time. This is an important project for the Society and we want to hear from everyone. The survey is available at http://tinyurl.com/qsg5 (in case it gets garbled, that url is tinyurl.com slash Q S G 5) Please remember to take the survey only once. Thank you very much. Dick Hill Executive Director American Society for Information Science and Technology 1320 Fenwick Lane, Suite 510 Silver Spring, MD 20910 FAX: (301) 495-0810 (301) 495-0900 From sigir2004announce at retrieve.shef.ac.uk Thu Oct 30 08:38:26 2003 From: sigir2004announce at retrieve.shef.ac.uk (SIGIR 2004 Annoucement) Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 13:38:26 +0000 Subject: [Sigmed-l] SIGIR 2004: Final Call For Paper Message-ID: <3FA11452.4060303@retrieve.shef.ac.uk> Apologies for any cross postings. -------------------------------------------------- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -------------------------------------------------- SIGIR 2004 Twenty-Seventh Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval http://sigir.org/sigir2004/ July 25 - 29, 2004 Sheffield, UK Organized by The University of Sheffield and ACM -------------------------------------------------- DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: January 26, 2004 -------------------------------------------------- SIGIR is the major international forum for the presentation of new research results and for the demonstration of new systems and techniques in the broad field of information retrieval (IR). The Conference and Program Chairs invite all those working in areas related to IR to submit original research contributions, posters, and proposals for tutorials, workshops, and demonstrations of systems. -------------------------------------------------- AREAS and AREA COORDINATORS -------------------------------------------------- SIGIR 2004 welcomes contributions related to any aspect of IR, but the major areas of interest are listed below. For each general area, two to four area coordinators will guide the reviewing process. Formal Models, Language Models, Fusion/Combination -Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow -John Lafferty, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Text Representation and Indexing, XML and Metadata -Airi Salminen, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland -Norbert Fuhr, University of Duisburg, Germany Performance, Compression, Scalability, Architectures, Mobile Applications -Chris Buckley, SabIR research, USA -Justin Zobel, RMIT University, Australia Web IR, Intranet/Enterprise Search, Citation and Link Analysis, Digital Libraries, Distributed IR -Andrei Broder, IBM Research, USA -David Hawking, CSIRO, Australia Cross-language Retrieval, Multilingual Retrieval, Machine Translation for IR -Ari Pirkola, University of Tampere, Finland -Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts, USA Video and Image Access, Audio and Speech Retrieval, Music Retrieval -Hong-Jiang Zhang, Microsoft Research, China -R. Manmatha, University of Massachusetts, USA Machine Learning for IR, Text Data Mining, Clustering, Text Categorization -Fabrizio Sebastiani, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy -Wai Lam, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong -David Hull, Clairvoyance, USA -Yoram Singer, The Hebrew University, Israel Topic Detection and Tracking, Content-Based Filtering, Collaborative Filtering, Agents -Stephen Robertson, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK -John Riedl, University of Minnesota, USA Summarization, Question Answering, Natural Language Processing for IR, Information Extraction, Lexical Acquisition -Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden -Charlie Clarke, University of Waterloo, Canada Interfaces, Visualization, Interactive IR, User Models, User Studies -Pia Borlund, Royal School of Librarianship and Information Science, Denmark -Nick Belkin, Rutgers University, USA Specialized Applications of IR, including Genomic IR, IR in Software Engineering, and IR for Chemical Structures -Bill Hersh, Oregon Health & Science University, USA -Hugh E. Williams, RMIT University, Australia Evaluation, Building Test Collections, Experimental Design and Metrics -Donna Harman, NIST, USA -Noriko Kando, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Coordinators-at-Large -John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK -Gary Marchionini, University of North Carolina, USA -Alistair Moffat, University of Melbourne, Australia -------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES -------------------------------------------------- November 14, 2003 - Mentoring program January 26, 2004 - Paper submissions due. February 27, 2004 - Tutorials, workshops, demonstrations, posters, and doctoral consortium due. April 12, 2004 - Notification of acceptance for all submissions. May 21, 2004 - Camera-ready copy due. July 25, 2004 - Conference opens. -------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION GUIDELINES -------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit research papers, not exceeding 5000 words, representing original, previously unpublished work, on or before January 26, 2004. Papers must be submitted electronically, via the submission web page. For paper submission guidelines, see author instructions on the Conference web site. Submission Guidlines: http://sigir.org/sigir2004/submit.htm -------------------------------------------------- INDIVIDUAL CFP -------------------------------------------------- For requirements and details on submission of -Posters -Doctoral Consortium -Demonstrations of systems and on proposals for -Tutorials (either a full day or half day) -Workshops see the Conference web site. SIGIR 2004 CFPs: http://sigir.org/sigir2004/cfp.htm -------------------------------------------------- SHEFFIELD -------------------------------------------------- Once devoted to being a world-leading steel town, Sheffield's largest money-making industries are now its Universities. The fifth largest city in the UK, Sheffield is one of the country's greenest: filled with parks and trees. The University of Sheffield is located in one of the pleasantest parts: the west end. Here, restaurants, cafes, and bars - all within walking distance of the conference location - offer evening activities for all. Sheffield is an excellent starting point to explore the North of England. To the west, only 5 miles from the city centre, is the Peak District National Park. Here, internationally renowned stately homes, such as Chatsworth, Lyme Park, and Haddon Hall, combine with famous rock climbing crags and great opportunities to walk to produce one of the worlds most visited national parks. To the north east, the city of York offers to the visitor its Minster (the largest Gothic Cathedral in Northern Europe), the Jorvik Viking centre, and the National Railway Museum, the largest such museum in the world. The other great cities of the North, Manchester, Leeds, and Liverpool can all be visited as a day trip from Sheffield. London to the south is only 2.5 hours on the train. Travel to Sheffield: http://sigir.org/sigir2004/travel.htm -------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE COMMITTEE -------------------------------------------------- Programme Committee -Kalervo Jarvelin, University of Tampere, Finland -James Allan, University of Massachusetts, USA -Peter Bruza, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia Posters Chair -Gareth Jones, Dublin City University, Ireland Best Papers Chair -John Tait, University of Sunderland, UK Mentoring Chair -Doug Oard, University of Maryland, USA Doctoral Consortium -David Harper, Robert Gordon University, UK Tutorials Chair -Fabio Crestani, University of Strathclyde, UK Workshops Chair -Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Demos Chair -Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, UK Allocation of EU Student Travel Grants -Stefan Rueger, Imperial College London, UK Local Organisers General Chair -Mark Sanderson, University of Sheffield, UK Treasurer -Micheline Beaulieu, University of Sheffield, UK -Kathryn Cobley (Conference accountant), University of Sheffield, UK Local Arrangements -Peter Willett, University of Sheffield, UK Registration chair -Daniela Petrelli, University of Sheffield, UK Publicity & Website -Hideo Joho, University of Sheffield, UK -Steve Levin, University of Sheffield, UK Organiser of PC meeting in London -Mounia Lalmas, Queen Mary, University of London, UK -------------------------------------------------- MORE INFORMATION -------------------------------------------------- For further details, see the Conference web site. http://sigir.org/sigir2004/.