Pacific Knowledge Systems is committed to maintaining links with the scientific, medical, and expert systems community we evolved from.   Our scientific committee has been assembled to advise us on future directions, assist our developers build in key features, and ensure that PKS always adheres to our corporate mission of improving the quality and value of healthcare information.   Committee Members   Professor Paul Compton   Paul Compton is the Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Engineering UNSW, the largest engineering faculty in Australia. He is also a Professor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering UNSW and a former Head of this school.   Prior to joining UNSW he was Head of the Computing Services Group at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and conducted research in a number of areas of medical computing. This included work on GARVAN-ES1, one of the first medical expert systems to go into routine clinical use internationally and Australia's most successful early expert system. This led to a major research focus on the knowledge acquisition problems for expert systems.   His research has received continuous Australian Research Council funding for over a decade and Paul and his research group have published over 130 scientific papers in the area. Paul has also been a member of the organizing committee or chaired many international workshops on knowledge acquisition over this period.   The major result from his research is a different approach to developing knowledge-based systems whereby, for the first time, systems can be built and maintained by domain experts without knowledge engineering or programming expertise and with little demand on the experts' time or effort. The commercial utility of this technology has now been proven by Pacific Knowledge Systems.   Bruce A. Friedman MD   From 1973 until 1983, Professor Friedman served as the Associate Director of the Blood Bank at the University of Michigan Hospitals. His research interests during these years revolved around the study of blood utilization in the United States and systems for reducing the use of unnecessary hospital blood bank services.   In 1982, Dr. Friedman was appointed the Director of Pathology Data Systems at the University of Michigan Hospitals, the computing support unit of the Department of Pathology, and he continues in this position today. In 1996, he was appointed as Director of Ancillary Information Systems for the University of Michigan Hospitals, which includes oversight over the radiology, pharmacy, pathology, radiation oncology, respiratory care, and home health information systems.   He is the director of a continuing education symposium on Automated Information Management in the Clinical Laboratory (AIMCL). This conference is devoted to laboratory information systems and automated information management in the clinical laboratories, and has been held at the University of Michigan Medical School for the last fifteen years.