All keynote talks are held
"Can A Semantic Web for Life Sciences Improve Drug
Discovery?"
Dr. Eric K. Neumann
Global Head of Knowledge
Management
Aventis Pharmaceuticals
Session Chair: Mike Stonebraker,
MIT
Dr. Neumann recently assumed the position of Global Head of Knowledge Management at Aventis Pharmaceuticals. the U.S. pharmaceuticals business of Aventis, a world leader in pharmaceuticals and human vaccines. Prior to that he was Vice President, Strategic Informatics and Head of Knowledge Research at Beyond Genomics, a privately owned life sciences research company founded in the fall of 2000 and committed to realizing the full potential of a Systems Biology approach to drug discovery.
Dr. Neumann has nearly fifteen years of experience in life science informatics. He joined Beyond Genomics from 3rd Millennium, Inc. where he was Vice President of Life Science Informatics. He is founder and organizer of the international BioPathways Consortium and is an advisory member of Sun's Life Sciences Open-Platform Initiative (I3C). Over the past ten years Dr. Neumann pioneered the development of new models for use in proteomics, gene profiling and pathway informatics, as well as ontologies that link major aspects of life sciences' data. Dr. Neumann has extensive experience developing and implementing integrated bioinformatics solutions with top pharmaceutical companies. Prior to 3rd Millennium, Inc., Dr. Neumann worked for NetGenics and Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, Inc (now Verizon).
Dr. Neumann received his
PhD from the Department of Developmental Genetics and Neuroscience at Case
Western Reserve University.
Wednesday, March 31
"Driving Forces in Database Technology"
Steven Hagan
Engineering Vice President, Server
Technologies
Oracle Corporation
Session Chair: Gail Mitchell, BBN Technologies
Steven Hagan is the Engineering Vice President in Server Technologies, based at Oracle’s New England Development Center in Nashua, New Hampshire. He has been at Oracle for 9 years, and reports to Chuck Rozwat, Executive Vice President of Server Technologies. Steve is in charge of several portions of the Oracle 9i database server development, including disaster recovery, utilities, migration, multimedia, and extensible databases, as well as portions of the iAS mid-tier application server. He has over 200 people in his organization.
Steve is a 30+ year veteran of the software
industry. Before joining Oracle, Steve spent seven years at Digital Equipment
Corporation as the senior engineering manager for database technologies. Prior
to that he spent 8 years in the design and development of databases for
engineering applications. He received his Masters of Computer Science from
University of Southern California.
Thursday, April 1
"Enabling Communities of Knowledge Workers"
David H. Lehman
Senior Vice President for Information and Technology
The MITRE Corporation
Session Chair: Betty
Salzberg, Northeastern University
David Lehman is senior vice president for information and technology for The MITRE Corporation. In this position, he is responsible for the formulation and management of the corporation’s technology program and the corporate information infrastructure and its continuous enhancement through technology. Mr. Lehman develops the corporate strategic technology investment plan and works across the corporation to ensure collaboration in executing the program and in disseminating and applying the results. He is also responsible for how MITRE uses its information technologies throughout its customer programs, and is charged with maintaining and promoting the information technology reputation of the corporation.
Mr. Lehman served as vice president and chief technology officer from 1997 to 2001, when his position was expanded to include the chief information officer function. He has 30 years of experience in the intelligence community, the U.S. imagery system, and information management systems. Previously, Mr. Lehman was technical director of MITRE’s Intelligence and Special Projects Division. supplying systems engineering, systems acquisition, and expertise in enabling technologies to a wide variety of MITRE’s command, control, and intelligence customers. Earlier, Mr. Lehman was department head of the Imagery System Department, responsible for MITRE’s work in imagery intelligence, including image processing research, systems engineering support to the National Exploitation Laboratory, and systems acquisition and project management support to the Joint Service Image Processing System.
Mr. Lehman received a bachelor’s degree in geology from Williams College in 1974. He joined MITRE in 1974 as an associate member of the technical staff working as a programmer on intelligence applications.
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