PROFITS also arrange seminars or meetings of representatives of member organisations to report on organisation activities and hear presentations from members, software suppliers and other guest speakers. These are only open to member organisations.

ANNUAL COURSE - 6th AND 7th AUGUST 2002
HOLLINS HALL HOTEL AND COUNTRY CLUB, BRADFORD

Course objectives

• To provide a thorough understanding of those Artificial Intelligence technologies of relevance to product formulation

• To demonstrate the applicability of the technology to product formulation

• To provide attendees with sufficient background to be able to identify opportunities in their own companies
  

Who should attend?

Practising product formulators who wish to learn more about the technology

Managers of product development laboratories who wish to learn more about the applications and impact, benefits and issues surrounding their implementation

PROGRAMME
Tuesday 6th August
10.00	Introduction	Peter York
10.15	Expert system technology - overview	Ray Rowe
11.15	Formulogic (an expert system shell)	Denis Howlett
12.00	Non-pharmaceutical applications	Ray Rowe
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Pharmaceutical applications	Ray Rowe
14.30	Demonstrations of pharmaceutical applications	Ray Rowe
15.30	Tea
16.00	Hands on time	Denis Howlett Ray Rowe Peter York
19.00 19.30	Course Dinner
Wednesday 7 August
9.00	Neural computing technology - an overview	Liz Colbourn
10.00	INForm (a commercial system)	Liz Colbourn
10.30	Coffee
10.15	Applications including demonstrations	Ray Rowe
11.30	Hands on time	Liz Colbourn Ray Rowe Peter York
12.30	Lunch
13.30	Hands on time	Liz Colbourn Ray Rowe Peter York
14.30	Issues and benefits of intelligent software	Ray Rowe
15.30	Discussion	Ray Rowe Peter York
16.30	Depart

There will be ample time for demonstrations and hands on use of relevant software and developed systems.

All attendees will receive a free course book containing all presentation materials. This will be used during the course and will provide a valuable reference source

COURSE LEADERS

RAY ROWE

Ray Rowe is a Senior Principal Scientist in R & D at AstraZeneca, advising senior management on future strategy in pharmaceutical product development. He is also Professor of Industrial Pharmaceutics, Unversity of Bradford, and Director of the PROFITS Special Interest Group. He has been involved in polymer coating, powder technology, material science and knowledge engineering for over 30 years and has published over 300 research papers, reviews and patents.

ELIZABETH COLBOURN

Elizabeth Colbourn is Product Director of Intelligensys Ltd and Managing Director of Oxford Materials Ltd and is responsible for the development and promotion of software packages designed to assist product development. A Canadian by birth, she has been involved in materials modelling for over 25 years and has published over 50 research papers and reviews.

DENIS HOWLETT

Denis Howlett is a Director of Isocra specialising in object orientation and user interface design. Formerly he worked at Logica for 13 years, designing and developing Formulogic - a kernel for building advanced product formulation expert systems.

PETER YORK

Peter York is Professor of Physical Pharmceutics, University of Bradford, and founding Director of Bradford Particle Design Ltd, a company based on research and patents in particle formation by supercritical fluids. He has been involved in pharmaceutical material science, particle formation and powder technology for over 30 years and has published over 300 research papers, reviews and patents.

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