Monthly Archives: January 2011

Thomas Goetz: It’s Time to Redesign Medical Data [TEDMed]

Thomas Goetz is the executive editor of Wired and author of “The Decision Tree: Taking Control of Your Health in the New Era of Personalized Medicine.  From the Talk Abstract “Your medical chart: it’s hard to access, impossible to read … Continue reading

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Sinan Aral: Social Contagion [Pop Tech 2010]

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Modeling the Financial Crisis [ From Nature ]

This week’s issue of Nature offers two brief but meaningful articles on the financial crisis. Here are the abstracts: Financial Systems: Ecology and Economics (By Neil Johnson & Thomas Lux): “In the run-up to the recent financial crisis, an increasingly … Continue reading

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Yesterday’s Fast is Today’s Slow – The 2011 Season Starts Today!

Well my Ducks did not quite get it done last night in the BCS National Championship Game. Despite the loss, I think that it is important to emphasize that innovation on a variety of fronts is responsible for bringing Oregon to … Continue reading

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The AI Revolution Is On [ Via Wired Magazine ]

From the Full Article: “AI researchers began to devise a raft of new techniques that were decidedly not modeled on human intelligence. By using probability-based algorithms to derive meaning from huge amounts of data, researchers discovered that they didn’t need … Continue reading

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The Data Game: Visualizing IP & Gambling with Quova [Google Tech Talks]

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