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The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group
(BCIG)

• Mission
• To promote appropriate
• computing methodology
• in all aspects of
• biomedical research and patient care
• in support of
• the NIH mission.
• www.nih-bcig.org

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Biomedical Research
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The NIH Biomedical Computing Interest Group
(BCIG)

• We R a
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• dedicated to
• joyful participatory learning
• www.nih-bcig.org

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BCIG SPEAKERS 2007
Augie Turano Judy Dayhoff
Pattern Profile Classification in Multivariate
Data Diagnosis and Bioinformatics Applications

Clinical Data Mining Exploring Medical Data
for Trends, Patterns and Classification
September 13 October 11
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BCIG BOOK CLUB 2007
September 27 October 25
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BCIG BOOK CLUB
NIH has a great book club open to anyone
interested. It features science, computer and
people books and it is sponsored by the NIH
Biomedical Computing Interest Group (BCIG) . At
the meetings books are summarized and discussed,
sometimes with authors in attendance. The BCIG
Book Club meets at 530 p.m. most fourth
Thursdays of the month in the NIH Clinical Center
(old) Medical Board Room (Room 2C116). The next
two books to be reviewed are
Author J. Storrs Hall will be at the meeting to
review and discuss his book.
For more information www.nih-bcig.org 301-496-019
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September 27, 2007 October 25, 2007
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BCIG LECTURES 2008(Tentative Your input is
welcomed!)
FEB 21 Predictive Learning, Induction and
Philosophy of Science
Vladimir Cherkassky MAR 13 Application of
Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning
to Pharmacokinetic and
Pharmacodynamic Modeling and Drug
Administration Adam E.
Gaweda APR 10 Microsofts New Data Mining
Software Gurujeet
Khalsa MAY 8 Bullst in Engineering New
Heuristics for Corporate Excellence
Dev Raheja JUN 12 Analysis,
Development, and Integration of Predictive and
Anticipatory Cognitive
Systems Martin Volker
Butz SEP 11 Biomedical Data Mining
Don Wunschs Ph.D. student NOV 13
Neural Networks Paul Werbos
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BCIG BOOK CLUB 2008(Tentative Your input is
welcomed!)

• JAN 24 The Emotion Machine Commonsense
  Thinking, Artificial Intelligence and the future
• of the human mind
• by Marvin Minsky (author has
  accepted invitation date not firm)
• FEB 28 Confabulation Theory
• by Robert Hecht-Nielson
  (author has accepted invitation date not firm)
• MAR 27 The First Word The Search for the
  Origins of Language
• by Christine Kenneally (author
  has accepted invitation data not firm)
• APR 24 On Dialogue
• by David Bohm
• MAY 22 I am a Strange Loop
• by Douglas Hofstadter (author
  will be invited)
• JUN 26 The Invented Reality
• by Paul Watzlawick

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BCIG BOOK CLUB 2008Other books being
considered(Your comments and suggestions are
very much appreciated.)

• COMPUTER
• Six Degrees
• Data Mining
• Chances Are
• Competing on Analytics
• How We Became Posthuman
• SCIENCE
• Critical Mass
• The Female Brain
• The Stuff of Thought
• Fooled by Randomness
• PEOPLE
• Bad Samaritans
• Awake at Work
• The Difference
• Destiny Unveiled
• The World Without Us

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