data as of 05 November 2002

PROGRAMME

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Jacques Michel
European Patent Office, The Hague, The Netherlands
Riding the Technology Tiger: a Personal Reflection

Session One: Chemoinformatics

Johann Gasteiger
University of Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany
Thirty Years of Managing Software Development in Chemoinformatics

Yaron Rapaport and Kirk Brattkus
ChemIndustry.com, California, USA
The Chemists Query: A Session-level Analysis of Search
Tony Trippe
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, USA
Patinformatics: A New Discipline Comes of Age

Liliane Meyers
European Patent Office, Vienna, Austria
User Expectations in Patent Information: A Supplier's Viewpoint 

Session Two: The New Old World of Scientific & Technical Publishing

Lorrin Garson
ACS Publications, District of Columbia, USA
The All-inclusive, Totally Functional, Super-connected Scientific Information Machine

Brian Gore
Patcom, London, UK
Raw Data and "Value-Added Information": Are they Converging at Last?

Bartow Culp
Purdue University, Indiana, USA
The Handbook: Glorious Past, Parlous Present, no Future?

Day One Endnote

Derk Haank
Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Is Electronic Publishing an Issue of New Technology, or a New Business Model? The Managerial Challenge

Session Three: Comparisons: Contents and Platforms

Diane Q Webb and John A Willmore
BizInt Solutions, California, USA
Surfing the Pipeline: Comparing the Coverage and Content of Drugs-in-Development Databases

Alexander Mullen, Hans-Georg Rohbeck and Martin Blunck
Bayer Research Centre, Wuppertal, Germany
Expectations and Reality: Information Sources on Pharmaceutical Development Products for Competitor Intelligence

Randall Marcinko
Nstein Technologies, Laval, Canada
Computer-Aided Indexing and STM e-Publishers: Does it make a Difference?

Martin S White
Intranet Focus, UK
Digital Content Management: A Review of the Current Legal and Regulatory Environment

Session Four: The Patent and Intelligence Environment

Alfred Elmaleh
Institut Français du Pétrole, Rueil-Malmaison, France
The Challenges Faced by Corporate Professionals in Controlling and Mastering Information Overflow: The Need for Dynamic and Interactive Solutions in an Intellectual Property Environment

Heinz-Gerd Kneip
BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
New Intelligent Information Tools Promise Much: How Successful are they when Applied to Scientific Information?

Lucy Akers
Akers & Co, Hertfordshire, UK  
The Future of Patent Information? A User with a View

Peter Steele
Current Patents, London, England
Facts and Speculation: Degrees of Uncertainty in Adding Value to Patent Data

Session Five: Corporate Trends in the Knowledge Management Environment

Barbara Peterson
3M, Minnesota, USA
New Strategies for Delivering Library and Information Services -- 3M's Approach for the 21st Century

Nicholas Kennedy
Henkel, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Henkel InfoFinder -- An Autonomy Application from the Henkel InfoCenter

Session Six: Networked Communities in SciTech

Wendy Warr
Wendy Warr & Associates, Cheshire, UK
From Virtual Communities to Portals in the Post-Dotcom Era

Peter Murray-Rust
Cambridge University, UK
Molecular Information on Demand: Semantic Web and Peer2Peer Strategies

Carmen Nitsche
MDL, California, USA
The Electronic Migration: End-user Chemists' Expectations Revisited

Matthew Cockerill
BioMed Central Ltd, UK
Uncovering Hidden Jewels: How Faculty of 1000 helps Scientists find the Best Research