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Technical
Program
Tuesday
Keynote Speaker:
Computational
Functional Genomic
By
Alvis Brazma
European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK
Tuesday March 12, 2002
8:30 - 10:00AM
ABSTRACT
The last 5 - 10 years have brought spectacular achievements
in genome sequencing ? genomes of 5 higher organisms and over
60 microbes have been sequenced and the draft human genome has
been published. However genome sequencing simply means the transferring
of digital information from one carrier ? DNA, to another ?
the electronic computer. Even if we assume that all the genes
in the genome have been correctly identified, this will still
only be a parts list of an organism. It took science more than
a thousand years to progress from quite a detailed knowledge
of human anatomy in ancient Greece to some understanding of
physiology. We hope that achieving understanding of how genomes
function will be much faster. This is the new research field
known as functional genomics.
New high throughput technologies, most notably DNA microarrays
are already producing terabites of relevant functional genomics
information. Analysing and interpreting this data with the
goal of obtaining new knowledge about life is the task of
computational approaches. Functional genomics is giving computer
scientists new challenges and new opportunities, some of which
we will discuss in this talk.
Wednesday
Keynote Speaker:
How
applied technology allows decrease energy consumption through
TOU (Time of Use) management: a practical case
By
Diego Pavia
SchlumbergerSema Spain
General
Manager
Wednesday
March 13, 2002
8:30AM - 10:00AM
ABSTRACT
In the energy sector the absence of investment for the last
5 years in new generation capacity as well as in transportation
or distribution, together with an steady yearly increase of
7-8% in consumption is bringing some countries to black out
situations where power supply is cut randomly in some time
windows in the day. The solutions for that western world problem
are infra-structural (new power plants or transmission lines)
or conjunctural. In the conjunctural ones, with very early
impact on the crises situation is the consumption adaptions
by Time Of Use (TOU) consumption management. Shifting the
load from peak to off-peak in real time demands intensive
high technological systems, starting in intelligent meters,
residential gateways, blended telecom infrastructures and
massif data
treatment and control. We will present a real problem, how
applied computing has enabled to solve
it, and the return of experience after implementing the technological
solution, all with direct impact on consumers pockets, environment
and quality of life.
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