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From the iCAPTURer to McManus-Informaticus. Benjamin Good Wilkinson Laboratory iCAPTURE Centre, UBC. A Brief History of Ben. 1998 BS, UC San Diego, Cognitive Science 1999 “Knowledge Engineer”, SAIC 2000 MSc Sussex Uni., UK, Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (clever computer programs)
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From the iCAPTURer to McManus-Informaticus Benjamin Good Wilkinson Laboratory iCAPTURE Centre, UBC
A Brief History of Ben • 1998 BS, UC San Diego, • Cognitive Science • 1999 “Knowledge Engineer”, SAIC • 2000 MSc Sussex Uni., UK, • Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems (clever computer programs) • 00-03 Bioinformatician, UCSD, CFAR • now - PhD student, Bioinformatics Training Programme
Knowledge Based Systems • Software systems that contain representations of human knowledge and can thus emulate human behaviour (to some extent).
Knowledge Based Systemsin practice • 1997 IBM computer program Deep Blue defeats world chess champion
BHAG • McManus-Informaticus • Deep Blue for Biomedical Research. • What are the Biomarkers of allograft rejection likely to be? • Hypothesis generation • Hypothesis validation
“Knowledge Representation” Is hard and takes a lot of time
First Trial at YI Forum • 2 days to build the YI Ontology • 68 volunteers • 665 terms collected • 326 “is a kind of” relations collected • 340 “same as” relations collected • Quality assessment underway • Manuscript in preparation
Thanks to Dr. McManus • For hiring Dr. Mark Wilkinson • For suggesting I go to the YI Forum • For introducing me to the term BHAG • For posing in one of my most frequently used slides • And for sending me this in an email • “… thanks especially for pushing boundaries.”