"Untangling the Web" Episode 27: Deborah McGuinness on Using Web Science to Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

Posted November 4, 2021
Deborah McGuinness
Deborah McGuinness, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
A PODCAST OF THE WEB SCIENCE TRUST, HOSTED BY THE SONIC RESEARCH GROUP AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY

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Our guest for this episode is Deborah McGuinness, Professor of Computer, Cognitive, and Web Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Deborah specializes in creating ontology-enabled research infrastructure for work in interdisciplinary settings. 

In this episode, Deborah explains how we can use ontologies to create programs that help us make the best decisions, from pairing wine and food to choosing to start a new medication. She shares her excitement about the potential intersections between health science and web science, detailing ways that medical professionals and web scientists can work together to elevate how we provide medical care. 

Click here for this episode’s transcript, and here for this episode’s show notes. 

Untangling the Web is a podcast of the Web Science Trust, a charity promoting the understanding of the Web through education and research in the discipline of Web Science.