Upcoming Events

May 16th, 2012, Repeat: ERIS HPC Seminar:  Parallel Computing with Examples

• We are pleased to announce a repeat of ERIS HPC Seminar: Parallel Computing with Examples. This seminar is scheduled for Wednesday May 16th at 13pm.

May 31st, 2012 Tech Lunch

• Cesar Mendoza, Associate Director of IS Support Services and his team will discuss IS Support Services' current initiatives and challenges and will field your questions.

• Mike Carter, Team Lead for Partners Collaborative Media Services will discuss Collaborative Media Services and its offerings, particularly video conferencing.  He will also take your questions.

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				May Research Tech Lunch

2011- 2012 Academic year Historical Events

All presentation materials (ppt, pdf, flash) can be found on the presentation page.  All prior events can be found within their respective tabs.

April 26th, 2012 Tech Lunch

• Jim Jeffers, Intel Corporation will present on the Intel roadmap, gpu computing, compilers/parallel computing/multi-threading and Intel alternatives to Nvidia and Cuda/OpenCL.

• Paul Raines, I.S. Manager of the MGH Martinos Center will present on the Center's I.S. infrastructure, current initiatives and challenges.

March 29th, 2012 Tech Lunch

• Griffin Weber, Chief Technology Officer, Assistant Professor of Medicine
  Harvard Medical School: "Harvard Catalyst Profiles is a social networking website for scientists, which was created in 2008 to help investigators find new collaborators. Since then, the website has been used for numerous applications, such as matching students with mentors, forming review committees in novel ways, understanding Harvard's research portfolio, and studying diversity in the workforce. This talk will describe current features in Profiles, extracting data from the website, and new functionality under development."

• Jennings Aske, PHS Chief Information Security Officer will give security updates, discuss initiatives and take your questions.

February 23rd, 2012 Tech Lunch

• Oliver Hofmann, Associate Director Bioinformatics Core - Harvard School of Public Health discussed the Core, its infrastructure and current projects.

• Gary Smith, Sr. Administrative Director - MGH Research and Alexandra Gallant, Web Coordinator - Biomedical Research Institute, BWH discussed the institutional Research Intranets, recent design changes and sought input.  

January 26th, 2012 Tech Lunch

• Brendan O'Neill, Corporate Manager of Partners TSO Services and Mindy Hynes, Senior Project Specialist will present on the Partners Exchange Email Archiving Project.

• Diane Keogh, Corporate Director of Partners Research Computing - will discuss the recent Partners IS re-organization, the Research IT Steering Committee's combined training initiative and Enterprise Clinical, the project to replace clinical systems across Partners with one common system. 

December 1st 2011 Tech Lunch

• Martin Leach, Chief Information Officer, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard will give a general overview of IT and IT strategy at The Broad Institute and will field your questions.

• Raúl San José Estépar, Ph.D, Assistant Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and a Research Associate at Brigham and Women's Hospital will present the efforts carried out at the Applied Chest Imaging Laboratory (ACIL) and the Laboratory of Mathematics in Imaging (LMI) for the development of new image-based biomarkers for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). He will review the main image processing approaches, machine learning techniques and the computational infrastructure that are allowing them to process 40,000 CT scans corresponding to 10,000 subjects as part of the COPDGene study for the discovery of the genetic determinants for COPD susceptibility that may provide insight into clinically relevant COPD subtypes

October 27th 2011 Tech Lunch

• Keith Morrison, DFCI Research Computing Programmer will give a high-level overview of Ruby and Rails, and talk about some of the benefits and drawbacks to using them for web application development.  He will also talk about DFCI's development methodology (including test-driven development and behavior-driven development) and their toolkit and will discuss some of the problems they've solved withthese technologies.

• John Schwartz, Partners I.T. Audit Manager and Marcia Wong, Partners Senior I.T. Internal Auditor will discuss compliance. PHS Internal Audit Services (IAS) is an independent group within Partners that functionally reports to the PHS CEO and PHS Board of Directors Audit and Compliance Committee.  PHS IAS performs IS/T risk assessments by looking at the IS environment and taking into account the impact and likelihood an adverse event could occur.  We recently completed a General Computers Control (GCC) review of the Partners Research Computing IS environment and have identified some risks and best practices that could be implemented to enhance the group's overall IS security posture and help mitigate some IS related risks.

September 29th 2011 Tech Lunch 

• Jennings Aske, PHS Chief Information Security Officer gave updates on encryption, the Adaptive Authentication Project, and presented the Partners Portable Device Security Handbook for feedback.

• Mindy Hynes, Senior Project Specialist, Rob Woltag, Team Lead for TSO Projects and Brian Nelson, Server Engineer discussed the Partners Windows 2008 AD upgrade project.