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The Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008 included Publishing and Research Tools for Academics that allows for archival annotation and structuring of Microsoft software produced documents, as well as supporting PubMed Central format . Additional sessions of interest: The Cyberspace Connection – Impact on Individuals, Society, and Research New Developments in Scholarly Communication Reflections on Directions in Artificial Intelligence What Will Be the Impact of Cloud Services on Science? Spotlights on Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Research AI, Sensing, and Optimized Information Gathering: Trends and Directions Ontological Myths: Reducing the Confusion Social Networking and Semantics Toward Situated Interaction Statistical Machine Translation Research at Microsoft Research Interactive Machine Learning: Challenges, Methods, and Applications Information Extraction from Documents and Queries Contexts in Computer Science Education The Future of Research Clouds REAssess: Resou...

It is encouraging to see a session at the upcoming Genome Canada conference ( Genome Canada Third International Conference, 2020 Vision: The Impact of Science on Society, Vancouver, October 22 - 24, 2008) entitled " Commercialization, Data Release, and Open Access: Incompatible Objectives? ". Other sessions at the conference: Human Genetic Variation Science should be on Tap not on Top: the Role of Government Science Advisers A New Paradigm for Drug Discovery (Round table discussion) Green Genomics Genomics of Childhood Diseases Stem Cells The session: " Science should be on Tap not on Top: the Role of Government Science Advisers " is to be chaired by Arthur Carty , the former president of the National Research Council (NRC) , and the former science advisor to the Canadian prime minister. I was unaware that Dr. Carty had recently been named the first executive director of the Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology ( web site?? ), as indicated in this news releas...

The proceedings for digital library conferences are a little hard to find. They are distributed across the ACM Digital Library, the IEEE Xplore, Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and other less accessible sites. It is definitely not convenient having to look all over for these resources. I've decided to collect what I could find here in this blog entry. If there are any missing (I am sure there are) please let me know and I will add them. NB : I've focused on the proceedings, and only listed the conference web sites when I couldn't find the proceedings. 2009 JCDL2009 2008 ICADL 2008 - International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries 2 - 5 December 2008, Bali, Indonesia ECDL 2008 . Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Proceedings . Zzzoot post . JCDL 2008 International Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint confer...