Posted by attilachordash on December 7, 2006
Probably you people in life sciences and biomedical fields with open eyes to current academic and advanced web developments (like BioMed Search and JovE) have happened to meet and try sometimes Google Scholar, Google’s own scholarly search engine, leaving PubMed for a moment behind. Now here is an interview with Scholar’s founding engineer, Anurag Acharya on the story, aim and progress of Scholar:
“Can you tell us something about how Google Scholar came about?
Alex Verstak and I used to work on building Google’s web index. This was very hectic work and after several years of it, the two of us took a break — a sabbatical of sorts — for a few months. Google Scholar came out of that sabbatical. I had already been working on including scholarly literature in Google’s index. For the sabbatical, we worked on improving indexing, automatically extracting metadata and ranking for scholarly literature. Our hope was to weave this information into Google web search. But “there’s many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip.” A working demo we sent out internally became popular and Google Scholar was born. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted by attilachordash on December 7, 2006
spacetime coordinates: 6.00 pm Wednesday 13th December 2006, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital Campus at London Bridge, London SE1. REGISTRATION IS FREE. Link (funny, Apple-type site)
AGENDA:
18.00 – Registration + networking over tea and coffee
18.30 – Welcome – Dr. Stephen Minger (KCL) – Co-organiser – LRMN
18.35 – “Retinal repair by transplantation of photoreceptor precursors: implications for stem cell therapy” – Prof. Robin Ali – Institute of Ophthalmology/Moorfields Eye Hospital
19.05 – “Tissue Engineering: Great Expectations” – Prof. Michael Lysaght – Brown University, RI, USA and President-Elect of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs
19.35 – “Development of human embryonic stem cell technology for human therapeutic application” – Dr. Anthony Davies, Geron Corporation, CA, USA
20.05 – Closing remarks – Chris Mason (UCL) – Co-organiser – LRMN
To reserve a place, please just email the LRMN Network Secretary, Dr. Louise Mason: louise.mason@regenmednetwork.com
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