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Keynote Presentations
Carole Goble,
University of Manchester
Professor, School of Computer Science
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Bio
Carole Goble is a Professor in the School of Computer Science. She co-leads the Information Management Group there, and is the founding chair of the pan-university
Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute-UK. She has a leading role in the Semantic Web, e-Science and the Semantic Grid, applying technical advances in knowledge technologies and workflow systems to solve information management problems for Life Scientists and other scientific disciplines. She is the director of the UK e-Science ^my Grid project which produced the popular Taverna workflow environment for Life Scientists. She recently launched the myExperiment initiative - a social networking site and publishing gateway for workflow developers and users. She is the co-chair of the Open Grid Forum Semantic Grid Research Group, and the Technical Director of the EU OntoGrid project, which has developed S-OGSA, the first reference architecture for the Semantic Grid.
Tony Hey,
Microsoft
Corporate Vice President for
Technical Computing
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Bio
As corporate vice president for technical computing, Tony Hey coordinates efforts across Microsoft Corp. to collaborate with the global scientific community. He is a top researcher in the field of parallel computing, and his experience in applying computing technologies to scientific research helps Microsoft work with researchers worldwide in various fields of science and engineering.
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