[Bosc-announce] Announcing the BOSC 2014 Keynote speakers

[Peter Cock]

Thanks to those who participated in the BOSC 2014 Keynote Competition! [1] Our
winner is Manuel Corpas, who correctly surmised, "it would make sense to have
@pebourne as keynote, now that he is Director of Data Science at #NIH." [2]
(In fact, we had already confirmed Philip Bourne as our second keynote speaker
*before* his new job at NIH was announced.) Congratulations, Manuel, on
winning free admission to BOSC 2014!

Dr. Bourne's keynote talk will be entitled "Biomedical Research as an Open
Digital Enterprise":

    The biomedical research lifecycle is fast becoming completely digital and
    increasingly open to the point that publishing could simply become
    changing the access control on given research objects comprising ideas,
    hypotheses, data, software, results, conclusions, reviews, grants and so
    on. This offers immense opportunities for software developers to enable
    the enterprise. I will describe a vision for the digital enterprise and
    what the NIH and others are doing to support the notion with the intent
    to accelerate scientific discovery.


Our other keynote speaker at BOSC 2014, as already announced, will be Titus
Brown, whose topic is "A History of Bioinformatics (in the Year 2039)".

Thank you,

Peter Cock & Nomi Harris, BOSC 2014 co-chairs.

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http://news.open-bio.org/news/2013/12/bosc-2014-keynote-speakers/

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[1] http://news.open-bio.org/news/2013/12/bosc-2014-keynote-competition/
and http://lists.open-bio.org/pipermail/bosc-announce/2013-December/000035.html

[2] https://twitter.com/manuelcorpas/status/412520369044463616