What's Next for Academic Publishing?

Academic publishing is electronic publishing

Derk Haank began by saying that he wanted to keep his presentation simple and would make only a few statements. The first of these was to say that, although it might be stating the obvious, academic publishing is electronic publishing. It has been remarkable how quickly things have progressed since the invention of the Web, and an EC study recently recognised that the revolution in electronic p...

What academic publishing can do for science?

Privacy - Preserving Data Mining at 10: Whats Next?

It has been 10 years since the first papers entitled “Privacy–Preserving Data Mining” appeared. The past decade has witnessed a flood of papers with new techniques to protect and mine data, but little real– world impact. Is privacy dead? Or are there still challenges that must be addressed? This talk will begin with a brief retrospective on advances in privacy–preserving data mining. We will th...

Great Impressions in Academic Publishing

By wide margins, the House cast preliminary votes on Mar 2, 1995 for a bill that would prohibit federal agencies fi-om protecting wetlands or endangered species unless landowners are compensated for any resulting decline in their property's value. The bill, which is strongly opposed by the Clinton administration, would make it easier for landowners to file claims against the government when the...

Next-generation academic medicine.

Today I would like to speak to you about the remarkable successes of academic medical centers to date, the significant problems that we are now facing, and the need for us to evolve into the next generation of academic medical centers. Academic medical centers have been remarkably successful in fulfilling our three missions of clinical care, research, and education. We graduate 17,000 physician...