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Bill Vass, President and COO of Sun Federal, discusses the use of Sun’s Open Source software stack in the CONNECT system, part of the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN). Connect is the information highway for health data exchange in the US; and similar to the UK’s NHS Data SPINE, which uses many of the same technologies from Sun.
Daily Archives: January 26, 2009
2009 Turing Lecture “Information Engineering and its Future” This Week
One of the highlights of the UK technology calendar, the jointly hosted BCS and IET Turing Lecture, takes place over the coming week. Sir Michael Brady FRS FEng, BP Professor of Information Engineering, Keeble College, University of Oxford, will be presenting his lecture “Information Engineering and it’s future”. Summarising his knowledge in the areas of mobile robotics, computer vision, signal processing, medical image analysis and artificial intelligence, Professor Sir Brady will then examine what information engineering really means and the possibilities for the future of the field.
More on the lecture here: https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=nav.5826
And for specific locations and dates:
- London – Tuesday the 27th of January 2009
https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23103 - Cardiff – Thursday the 29th of January 2009
https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23104 - Manchester – Tuesday the 3rd of February 2009
https://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.23105
A summary of last year’s lecture “Target Earth” by Dr James Martin, along with links to video and audio recordings for all of the Turing lectures since 2004 can be found here: https://horkan.com/2008/05/27/james-martin-turing-lecture-2008
I’m hoping to get along to tomorrows lecture at the IET Head Office, at Savoy Place, so expect a write up to follow.