Alan Rector

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British computer scientist

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Education

Rector received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pomona College in 1966, a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1987.

Research

Rector's research specialty was clinical terminology,{{Cite journal | last1 = Rector | first1 = A. | s2cid = 7827430 | author-link1 = Alan Rector | title = Clinical terminology: Why is it so hard? | journal = Methods of Information in Medicine | volume = 38 | issue = 4–5 | pages = 239–252 | year = 1999 | doi = 10.1055/s-0038-1634418 | pmid = 10805008 | last1 = Rector | first1 = A. | author-link1 = Alan Rector | last2 = Solomon | first2 = W. | last3 = Nowlan | first3 = W. | last4 = Rush | first4 = T. | last5 = Zanstra | first5 = P. | last6 = Claassen | first6 = W. | s2cid = 7978610 | title = A Terminology Server for medical language and medical information systems | journal = Methods of Information in Medicine | volume = 34 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 147–157 | year = 1995 | pmid = 9082124 | doi = 10.1055/s-0038-1634569 | url = https://repository.ubn.ru.nl//bitstream/handle/2066/21859/21859___.PDF | last1 = Rector | first1 = A. | author-link1 = Alan Rector | title = AIM: A personal view of where I have been and where we might be going | journal = Artificial Intelligence in Medicine | volume = 23 | issue = 1 | pages = 111–127 | year = 2001 | pmid = 11470219 | doi=10.1016/s0933-3657(01)00078-1 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.381.3438

Rector was a visiting senior scientist at Stanford University. He provided consultancy to the NHS Information Authority, the Mayo Clinic & Hewlett-Packard and Siemens Healthcare. He was a member of the Jisc Committee for the Support of Research, the National Cancer Research Institute Board for Bioinformatics, the Joint NHS/Higher Education Forum on Informatics, and the Board of the Academic Forum of the UK Institute for Health Informatics. Rector also served on the board of HL7-UK, the main standards body for Healthcare Informatics and was involved with the International World Wide Web Conference and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

His research was funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the Medical Research Council and the Joint Information Systems Committee.

Awards

In 2003, he received the 1st British Computer Society Health Informatics Committee award for lifetime service to Health Informatics.

Personal

Rector reached retirement age in September 2011 but remained active in the field until 2019. His wife Peggy Newton died on 3 January 2024.

References

References

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  2. (2003). "Proceedings of the international conference on Knowledge capture - K-CAP '03".
  3. Rector, Alan. (1987). "The knowledge based medical record: a design for decision support in general practice". University of Manchester.
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  6. (2006). "Granularity, scale and collectivity: When size does and does not matter". Journal of Biomedical Informatics.
  7. (2008). "Why Do It the Hard Way? The Case for an Expressive Description Logic for SNOMED". Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
  8. (1997). "The GRAIL concept modelling language for medical terminology". Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.
  9. (2005). "Relations in biomedical ontologies". Genome Biology.
  10. (2004). "Engineering Knowledge in the Age of the Semantic Web".
  11. http://www2006.org/speakers/rector/ Alan Rector speaker information from WWW2006
  12. [//lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-semweb-lifesci/2005Dec/0023.html Alan Rector introduction on public-semweb-lifesci mailing list]
  13. link. (15 July 2012 by the [[Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council). EPSRC]]

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