Saturday, November 17, 2007

Trip To Taiwan

( Figure Caption: Map of Taiwan. Source: www.orientaltravel.com/taiwan_map.jpg )


Tomorrow (November 18, 2007) I will be in Taipei, Taiwan for the following meetings and conferences:

1) International Medical Informatics Symposium in Taiwan 2007 (MIST 2007)
2) ONCO-MEDIA Meeting
3) 5th ICT Asia Regional Seminar


I am a guest speaker at MIST 2007 which will be held from November 18 to 19, 2007 at the Taipei Medical University Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. The tentative schedule is posted in the following website: http://bisp.tmu.edu.tw/mist2007/schedule_e.htm

Dr. Hung-Wen Chiu, Secretary-General of the Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics also invited me and other speakers to attend the conference banquet at 85F Observatory Restaurant of the Taipei 101 - the tallest building in the world tomorrow (11/18/07) evening.

The 5th ICT Asia Regional Seminar is a French Government funded project. It will be held on November 19-21, 2007 at the Academia Sinica. The seminar will bring active researchers to present the latest accomplishments, innovations and potential furture initiatives in the following toipics: (1) Grid and high performance computation, (2) Semantic web and new generation Internet digital content, (3) Network infrastructure, (4) ICT for health, and (4) Robotics and cognitive sciences.

While in Taipei, I am also scheduled to visit our research partners in the Academia Sinica Grid Computing Center.

This will be my third time to visit Taipei, Taiwan. My first two visits to Taiwan occurred in 1994 and 1995, respectively, during the organizational meeting and first conference of High-Performance Computing Asia (HPC-ASIA).

Raffy
11/17/07

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