March 15
Spotlights
1. Keynote & Panel: How to run a successful Open Source project
2. Whitebox topics: Programmer tech talks on interesting emerging technologies
3. Slam Poetry: New community projects with an emphasis on the cool core technology
4. DIY Tutorials: DIY Machine learning by example
Schedule
Community Progress and Roadmap Strawman
Andrew McMurry (CBMI, CHIP, I2B2)
Keynote: "How to Run a Successful Open Source Project"
Dries Buytaert (Founder, Drupal)
Whitebox Topic 1: Hadoop In Action
Justin Quan (CHIP, CarraNet)
Coffee Break
Slam Poetry: New Projects, Grand Opportunities
"Hello World" starts at home. Discover what is going on in your backyard and get involved the open source way.
This year's slam highlights new Grand Opportunity Awards and cool new technology.
Eagle-I: High Performance Query and Inference of Schema-less RDF Databases
Ricardo De Lima (CBMI, Eagle-I)
CarraNet: Dynamic Construction of Multiple Trust Overlay Networks
David Ortiz (CHIP, CarraNet)
GARLIC: Genomic Analysis Results Library Integration Cell
Brian Wilson (I2B2)
Lunch Break
DIY Learning: Mining Medical Free Text in Java
Learn the state of the art in mining doctor notes and research publications.
Talk will focus on the pros and cons of using regular expressions, word counts, and part of speech parsing trees.
Examples will be given in Java so you can DIY.
Guergana Savova (CHIP Faculty)
Whitebox Topic 2: "Write Once Parallelize Anywhere"
Luke Hutchison (TED Fellow and MIT PhD student)
Coffee Break
Panel: Open Source Partnerships
How can we further strength our partnerships with Open Source companies?
Eclipse Foundation
Mike Milinkovich, Executive Director
Recombinant Data Corp
Peter Emerson, CEO
OpenClinica
Ben Baumann, Co-Founder