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Monday February 3, 2014

8:30-9:00 Registration and continental breakfast (Severn room)

9:00-9:15 Welcome and opening remarks (Severn room)

Karl Steiner (UMBC VP for research)

9:15-9:45 Beyond Watson: questions, challenges and agenda (Severn room)

Anupam Joshi (UMBC), Claudia Pearce (DoD), Tim Finin (UMBC) slides

9:45-10:30 Invited talk (Severn room)

Large scale graph data, Paul Burkhardt (DoD) slides

10:30-11:15 Invited Talk (Severn room)

What Do We Need Before We Can Take Watson to the Bedside, Eliot L Siegel M.D. (U. Maryland School of Medicine) slides

11:15-1:30 Technologies breakout session I and working lunch (Baltimore/Washington/Severn rooms)

B1: Analytics, datamining, machine learning, leads: Paul Cohen (DARPA) and Mary Brady (NIST) notes

B2: Semantics, language and knowledge representation, leads: Ian Soboroff (NIST) and James Mayfield (JHU/APL)

1:30-3:00 Industry Panel

Opportunities and applications of predictive analytics in business and industry, Morgan Crafts (Northrop Grumman) slides, Murthy Devarakonda (IBM) slides, Haywood Talcove (LexisNexis), Evelyne Viegas (Microsoft) slides

3:00-3:30 Break

3:30-5:00 Technology breakout sessions II (Baltimore/Washington/Severn rooms)

B1: Analytics, datamining, machine learning, leads: Paul Cohen (DARPA) and Mary Brady (NIST) notes

B2: Semantics, language and knowledge representation,  leads: Ian Soboroff (NIST) and James Mayfield (JHU/APL)

B3: Other technologies (tbd)

05:00-05:30 Plenary meeting and breakout reports (Severn room)

05:30-06:30 free time

6:30 Poster session and reception (Patapsco room)

A Riddle, Wrapped in a Mystery, Inside an Enigma: Kevin P. Ford, Deputy Director of Technology, NSA

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

8:30-9:00 Registration and continental breakfast (Severn room)

9:00-9:15 Review and agenda (Severn room)

Anupam Joshi (UMBC), Claudia Pearce (DoD), Tim Finin (UMBC)

9:15-9:45 Invited talk (Severn room)

Big Mechanism: Modeling and explaining complicated systems, Paul Cohen (DARPA) slides

9:45-10:15 Invited talk (Severn room)

Challenges and opportunities for cybersecurity, Mark Greaves (PNNL) slides

10:15-12:00 Domain breakouts (Baltimore/Washington/Severn rooms)

B4: Medical and healthcare, leads: Scott DuVall (U. Utah School of Medicine) and Mike Grasso (U. Maryland School of Medicine) (Washington)

B5: Security and privacy, leads:  Napthali Rishe (FIU) (Baltimore)

B6: Other domain (tdb)

12:00-1:00 Breakout summaries, discussion, lunch (Severn room)

1:00-1:30 Wrap up and next steps (Severn room)

1:30 Adjourn (Severn room)