Wednesday, April 26, 2006

8:30 am - 9:30 am

Level: Intermediate

The presentation explores how the infrastructure of Business Intelligence can be applied to large-scale scientific endeavors to produce 'smart' science. The information analysis of comtempory business and science are similar, unlike prior decades. Can this similarity be exploited to support Science Intelligence?

Dr. Richard Hackathorn is president and founder of Bolder Technology, Inc., a twelve-year old consultancy in Boulder, Colorado. Richard has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry and is a well-known technology innovator and international educator, conducting professional seminars in 18 countries. He also teaches at the University of Colorado, Boulder, in the Systems department of the Leeds School of Business. He has written three textbooks entitled Enterprise Database Connectivity, Using the Data Warehouse (with W.H. Inmon), and Web Farming for the Data Warehouse. He earned his B.S. degree from the California Institute of Technology and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Irvine. To contact, send email to richardh@bolder.com.