ACIS Lab

On behalf of the CENTRA 8 organizing committee, the National Center for High-performance Computing (NCHC) at the National Research Laboratories (NARLabs), Taiwan is pleased to invite our colleagues from around the globe to the 8th CENTRA meeting on February 22-25, 2025, in Hsinchu, Taiwan. It is with great excitement and anticipation that we gather under the theme, Bridging Innovation and Connectivity: Pioneering the Future of IT and LLM Collaboration. For more information, please visit: https://www.globalcentra.org/centra8/.

Several members of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory (ACIS) from the University of Florida attended the SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Conference, Sept. 2-6, 2024 in Okinawa, Japan. Attendees included, Dr. José A.B. Fortes, Founder and Director of the ACIS Lab., Manuel Luciano, Systems Administrator and Michael Elliott, Graduate Research Assistant. Michael presented “Integrating LLMs and the iDigBio portal for conversational data exploration and inference." View the presentation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnhKGUQREU (29:57 – 45:18) 🙂🌿

Several members of the ACIS Laboratory attended the TDWG 2022 Conference on Biodiversity Information Standards in Sofia, Bulgaria last week.
Attendees:
Dr. Jose Fortes, Director
Maureen Kelly, System Administrator
Michael Elliott, Ph.D. Student
Chris Wilson, System Administrator (not pictured)

The weeklong conference offered symposia, workshops, poster presentations and discussions on management of biodiversity data. This knowledge contributes to the team's extensive research on the iDigBio project at the University of Florida! 🌿
More information: https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2022/