Saturday Blockbuster at the Crick Institute: “Four Startups and a Researcher”
Over the course of five 3-minute talks and open Q&A, discover the latest answers to one of academic life’s biggest questions — how can we stay on top of new publications?
Researchers, junior or senior, are perpetually haunted by the worry that they may have missed new publications of importance to their own work.
For those of you lucky enough to have experienced the ‘90s, you may remember rom-com classics like Four Weddings and a Funeral and innumerable boy bands, but also the popularisation of Internet usage and the advent of Google Search, which celebrated its 20th birthday this September.
Academics have, in some ways, been spoilt ever since — digital publication formats, electronic databases, email alerts for new journal issues, and a concerted effort by innovators from across the academic, publishing and technology spheres to provide researchers and librarians with increasingly sophisticated digital research tools. Yet researchers are still bewildered when it comes to making sense of the sea of information they’re surrounded by.
The Internet enabled instantaneous, low-cost dissemination of content, but with more and more information available, the problem becomes that of finding needles in ever growing haystacks.
“With more and more information available, the problem becomes that of finding needles in ever growing haystacks.”
Join us for free this Saturday, 3pm, at the Francis Crick Institute in London for the 2017 SpotOn Festival (Science Policy, Outreach and Tools Online) to discuss with a panel of four startups and a senior researcher who will give a 3-minute quickfire presentation each about tackling the challenge of literature discovery head-on, with manual to automated techniques:
Prof. Jennifer Linden, UCL Ear Institute will present the literature discovery problem from her 20 years’ experience of research.
Dr Sybil Wong, Head of Growth at Sparrho (me!) — I will describe how our platform facilitates crowd-sourced discovery, which in turn enriches our literature recommendations.
Mauro Cozzi, Co-founder of Researchably will explain how their machine learning algorithms are trained on heuristic data to streamline research workflows.
Dan Shanahan, Head of Product Strategy, F1000Prime will show off how their paper recommendations, curated by hand-picked experts, are coupled with algorithms.
Dr Rabia Khan, Exploratory Scientist at BenevolentAI will explain how their artificial intelligence is being applied to mine valuable information from papers, patents and clinical trials for drug repurposing and target identification.
Chairing the session is Amy Bourke-Waite, Communications Director at Springer Nature, who will open up the floor to audience questions.
The session will be followed by prosecco and cupcakes at 4pm, so why not sign yourself up for a free ticket here at Eventbrite? If you can’t make it, there’ll also be a live stream.
