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'''Integrating Information'''
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Please navigate to [http://smi.stanford.edu/projects/cbio/ncor-internal-wiki/index.php/IGERT here].
 
 
Alternative titles:
 
 
 
Situational Awareness (unsuitable because of strong military associations)
 
 
 
Scenes, Situations and Environments: New Challenges for Information Integration
 
 
 
Towards the Integrated Information Science of the Future
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement will standardly require the integration of information deriving from archeologists, biologists, geologists, GIS technicians, and atmospheric scientists. Such cross-domain and cross-modality information integration is nowadays required as a matter of course in a variety of domains, from public health screening to aeronautical guidance, from oil exploration to meteorological sensor systems, from air traffic adverse event analysis to tracking of biological agents, and from enterprise information systems to intelligence analysis. Yet the methods for such information integration are still to a surprising degree ad hoc and fall short of forming a coherent curriculum which can be transmitted and tested and refined in application to a variety of different sorts of problems.
 
 
 
We propose an IGERT 1. to train a future generation of information scientists in the theories and methods of information integration, 2. to train scientists in the use of such theories and methods in a variety of application domains.
 
 
 
The tools we have in mind will include standard database and image analysis tools, the spatial reasoning tools of Geographic Information Science, together with the theories of ontology -- creating and disseminating common controlled vocabularies. We will foster projects to apply and extend these tools to address new challenges of cross-disciplinary communication in a variety of domains at a variety of scales, including environmental hazards (?), intelligence analysis, biodefense, epidemiology and public health .... .
 
 
 
We envision the following
 
 
 
'''Six Axes'''
 
 
 
1. Ontologies (Barry Smith)
 
 
 
2. Databases (Aidong Zhang)
 
 
 
3. Referent Tracking (Werner Ceusters)
 
 
 
4. Image / Map Analysis (Thomas Bittner? Murali Ramanathan?)
 
 
 
5. Realtime Sensor Data (Rajan Batta)
 
 
 
6. Natural Language Understanding (Rohini Srihari ?)
 
 
 
'''Faculty interested thus far:'''
 
 
 
Batta
 
Berman
 
Bittner
 
Ceusters
 
Donnelly
 
Goldberg
 
Halfon
 
Holm
 
Lasker(?)
 
Koepsell
 
Little
 
Mark
 
Perrelli
 
Ramanathan
 
Renschler
 
Smith
 
Yeh
 
Zhang
 
Zubrow
 
 
 
to approach
 
Rohini Srihari
 
Ling Bian
 
Further CMIF people
 

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