The Canary Foundation Early Detection Symposium (May 20 - 22, 2008, at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California) serves as a forum for members of the extended Canary Foundation Network to meet and share their successes, challenges, and visions for the field of early cancer detection. Their goal is to work together to generate and optimize strategies for the discovery, validation, and dissemination of early detection tests. CommerceNet Chairman Marty Tenebaum will attend this event that includes academic researchers, clinicians, and commercial and foundation partners.

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With investors and business leaders facing so many questions in today's difficult economic environment, the Milken Institute Global Conference (April 28 - 30) in Los Angeles was the place to be. CommerceNet Chairman Marty Tenebaum attended this important event that brought together some of the most extraordinary people in the world to discuss, debate, and deliberate today's most pressing social, political, and economic challenges.

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Creativity manifests in several ways during scientific inquiry, and computational tools can both improve our understanding of its characteristics and increase its prevalence within the scientific routine. This symposium brought together researchers from the cognitive, computational, and mathematical sciences to address questions at the intersection of creativity and scientific reasoning. CommerceNet fellow Jeff Shrager hosted a commentary at this event, held at Stanford University's Cordura Hall, on March 29 - 30, 2008.

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CommerceNet fellow Jeff Shrager presented a paper ("Answering Science Questions: Deduction with Answer Extraction and Procedural Attachment") at the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia, March 26 - 28, as part of the "Semantic Scientific Knowledge Integration" symposium. Afterwards, he ran a discussion panel in the symposium on "Symbiotic Relationships between Semantic Web and Knowledge Engineering."

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CommerceNet Chairman Marty Tenebaum participated in the 2008 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics in San Francisco, California, March 10 - 12, where the latest progress on using informatics approaches to improve translational biomedical research was presented.

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CommerceNet fellow Lisa Dusseault attended the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) 71st annual meeting in Philadelphia, March 9 - 14. Dusseault is responsible for the Applications area, along with Chris Newman. IETF meetings, held three time a year, are week-long "gatherings of the tribes," the primary goal of which is to reinvigorate the working groups. These meetings are of little interest to sales and marketing folks?but are of high interest to engineers and developers.

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At the end of Health 2.0 in September 2007, CommerceNet's Marty Tenebaum proposed the creation of an industry initiative to accelerate the Health 2.0 vision. This initiative would do for Health 2.0 what CommerceNet did for e-commerce, educating and catalyzing the market through visionary integration projects that demonstrate the potential for Health 2.0 to improve people's lives. This first organizational meeting at the Health 2.0 Spring Fling in San Diego ("Connecting Consumers & Providers," March 3 - 4) forges a direction for the Health 2.0 Accelerator, exploring potential projects and organizational structures.

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