Wei Wang Associate Professor University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Public engagement Two issues Communication Computation

A patient may search for diseases with similar symptoms choices of treatment expected prognoses … But may not replace the role of doctor WebMD patient doctor Knowledge & Experience

A non-scientist’s view of scientific data may be very different Often carry a partial view Scientist General public

Communication between scientist and general public How to better collect/interpret/use scientific data Infrastructure to facilitate such communication Scientist General public

Data acquisition outpaces data analysis Computation becomes a growing bottleneck Need better infrastructure and tools Can we engage the public? DiscoveryDiscovery Data Computation

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Microsoft Research Faculty Summit 2008