Supercourse Newsletter, August 16, 2002
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Dear Friends,
IEA meeting: We are excited about being able to present at the IEA
meeting on Monday at 14:00. We are busily pulling our talks (and
jokes) together on Epi-Internet-ology. It is a shame that no one will
be going to the other concurrent sessions as they will be all visit-
ing ours.
We have set up a time later in the day for an informal gathering. It
will be at 18:00 in Wyndham. We will announce the room at the session
in the afternoon. Sadly we will not have any Caribou pie with Iron
City beer as the hotel will not allow any food into the room.
We apologize as in the last newsletter we indicated that the organiz-
ing committee told us that the cost for stuffing fliers into the bags
was US$ 600. It is US$ 600, but it was not the rule of the organizing
committee, but rather the company who is running the program. The or-
ganizing committee has done a wonderful job in preparing the scien-
tific program and should be congratulated.
As $600 is beyond our reach, Mita has done something very nice. We
have prepared Supercourse announcements in the shape of business
cards. On the cards is the logo of the Supercourse, as well as tell-
ing people how to join the Supercourse. When you see one of us at the
meeting (Ron, Akira, Eugene, Eun Ryoung or Soni) we will have the
logo on our name tags. We will give to you 3-5 of the cards and ask
you to distribute these to people you know of the meeting who may not
know about the Supercourse (where have these people been for the past
few years??) to enroll them. This word of mouth system works quite
well.
Library of Alexandria: I met with the new head of the Library of Al-
exandria. He is very excited about expanding the Supercourse Model to
all of science, but using a Napster type model. Tony Villasenor is
helping to work out the concept of the Napster Model such that if you
wanted my lecture on Diabetes Epidemiology you could potentially take
it directly from my disc, with my permission. This is Soooo exciting,
as here we can expand very dramatically our ability to share lectures
across science, with everyone still getting credit, in fact more
credit as more people are seeing the lectures. We are discussing with
him the feasibility of establishing a Library of Alexandria GHNet Su-
percourse of Science.
We look forward to see you all in Montreal.
Ron, Akira, Faina, Eun Ryoung, Fan, Mita, Beatriz, Soni, Rania, Abed,
Fred, Tom, Deb
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Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.
Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunication
WHO Collaborating Center
Professor of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15090, USA
cell phone +1-412-400-3751
Tel: +1-412-383-2746
Fax: +1-412-383-1026
mailto:super1+@pitt.edu
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