A number of leading
international data experts will give plenary talks at CODATA 2000:
Peter Cochrane,
Chief Technologist, British Telecom (UK)
"Why Old Science Won't
Work in the New Century"
Dr. Bohlen,
Fachinformationszentrum Chemie Gmbh (Germany)
"Scientific Databases
and Education: A Revolution About to Happen"
Jacques-Emile
Dubois, Past President, CODATA (France)
"50 Years of Expanding
Knowledge: Complexity Control and New Frontiers"
John Enderby,
Physical Secretary, Royal Society (UK)
"The Role of Data and
Information in a Sustainable Society"
Oleg Favorsky,
Member of Presidium, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia)
"The Impact of Aviation
on the Atmosphere and Global Climate: The Role of Data and Modeling"
Usama Fayyad,
Chief Executive Officer, digiMine (US)
"Data Mining and Data
Warehousing of the Future: The Brave New World of Data Assets"
Quansheng
Ge, Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences (China)
"Reconstruction of Climate
in China from Historical Documents"
Shuichi
Iwata, Director, RACE Institute, University of Tokyo (Japan)
"Databases and Design:
Discovering New Ideas in Old Facts"
Philip Loftus,
Vice President and Director, Glaxo Wellcome R&D (US)
"The Role of Data and
Information in Modern Industrial Research"
Dave Snowden,
Knowledge Management, IBM (UK)
"The New Knowledge Paradigm:
How Information is Changing Communication"
Mitchell
Sogin, Director, Center for Comparative Molecular Biology
and Evolution, Woods Hole (US)
"The Universal Tree of
Life and the Origin of Eukaryotes: Will Genomics Get to Its
Roots?"
