Using mobile technologies for healthcare is not just for self-diagnosis or as an alternative to expensive medical care. Many doctors and hospitals are adopting the technology and encouraging their patients to adopt it. There are lots of things you can do smaller and cheaper where telehealth systems or healthcare websites are currently being used. Preventive medicine mobile applications have been successful for improving health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions, in particular. Read the article before casually dismissing the field as a bunch of hypochondriacs trying to self-medicate.
If you're a developer interested in the mobile health field, the mHealth Summit is currently the best annual conference.focused specifically on mobile health out there: http://www.mhealthsummit.org/ Eric Topol, the subject of the NY Times article in the summary above, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2011 conference, along with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
I can't find any information about whether or not the Samsung Exhibit II (which just came out in October) for T-Mobile will get Ice Cream Sandwich. Anyone else heard any rumors?
So what? My cat can produce spots on the carpet that glow under a fluorescent UV light. I suppose if we had a dog, the cat could pee on the dog and make it glow too. But you don't see cats running of to publish stuff in journals; they have too much important napping and paw-licking to do instead.
The article referenced in the summary says nothing. It just asks some rhetorical questions. Am I supposed to LTFP (Listen to the F-ing Podcast?). There are dozens of good stories about why Netflix is raising its prices. Why lead with that one?
We just saw the launch of the original Civilization for the iPhone... I'm imagining that EA is looking to do similar things with these other old, but fondly remembered titles. Spruce up the graphics, modify the gameplay to work on the iPhone, and then sell them for $9.99.
I find Amazon's attitude towards DRM to be hypocritical. I buy all my mp3's from Amazon.com (and not iTunes) specifically because Amazon doesn't use DRM on music purchases. I know that music I buy through Amazon can't be remotely erased, I can still play it 10 years from now even if Amazon shuts down their mp3 business, and I can transfer it if I buy a new computer or get a different brand of mp3 player. But when it comes to books and Amazon is selling the hardware AND the content, their attitude sure did change about DRM.
I don't own a Kindle, and am not likely to be buying one.
"Verified by Visa" screwed up my Visa card a few months ago. My wife was purchasing airline tickets on-line and unexpectedly got to a "Verified by Visa" page during the checkout. This was the first time either of us had ever heard of or seen "Verified by Visa". Since I'm the primary cardholder, but the tickets were in her name, the Verified by Visa page denied my wife access (even though it's a joint account and we each have our own cards with our own names on them). Then our credit card account got locked for "fraud" (which I found out after calling customer service), so I couldn't even buy the tickets in my name.
We ended up having to get a new card issued with a new number, which took a week, during which I had to make sure that nothing like Netflix auto-billed my old "locked for fraud" card number.
I remember there being plenty of senior-level, non-programming CS classes that I tried hard to stay away from back when I was in college. Theory, Numerical Analysis, Computer Architecture, etc. Sure, some programming was involved, but programming was not the core focus of the class like other CS disciplines like databases, operating systems, software engineering, etc.
Not the same big bucks, but consider going back to school to get a Masters degree in Public Policy. Some schools offer a MPP track in Science and Technology Policy.
Or get an MBA and become a consultant with your prized technological + business background.
I work in a computational biology department at a research institution. Everyone I know is either in academic or government research. My only degrees are in Computer Science... I get the biology knowledge I need from my collaborators.
Maybe I don't understand your question? What are you hoping to hear? If you are planning on studying for a higher degree in computational biology, that pretty much limits your career choice to "computer scientist working with biology or medical researchers". You are likely to find a job wherever one finds biology and medical researchers (as you noted, academic/government research institutions, biotechs, and pharmaceutical companies).
To get a sampling of what jobs in the field look like and what sorts of companies/institutions hire such people, try the International Society for Computational Biology and look at their jobs section.
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after watching spiderman, i was so psyched. I went right home, caught a spider, microwaved it for a few seconds to mutate its DNA a little bit, then I took it out and let it bite me.
and guess what?
No superpowers You think that's bad? I wanted mutant superpowers like my hero, The Tick, but instead I just got Lyme disease.
Surely with all the time in college I spent playing Civ II, I should have been anointed Leader of the World by now. Or at least I could be a mayor, given all the different Sim City versions I mastered.
Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore has a similar telepresence robot to help a doctor do rounds in the urology clinic. I saw a presentation about it at a telemedicine conference last May. The doctor can cover two hospitals and still check on his patients at whichever hospital he isn't physically present at that day. Or he can check on patients in the middle of the night immediately instead of having to drive 45 minutes from his home to the hospital. Here's a story from the Washington Post about JHU's "Dr. Robot".
I think about the history of ATMs when I hear all the nervous Nellies wetting their pants over electronic voting machines. I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don't get me wrong - there's a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged. But that doesn't mean we'll get a worse government. It probably means that the choice of the next American president will be taken out of the hands of deep-pocket, autofellating, corporate shitbags and put it into the hands of some teenager in Finland. How is that not an improvement? Statistically speaking, any hacker who is skilled enough to rig the elections will also be smart enough to select politicians that believe in . . . oh, let's say for example, science.
Need something unique to the person... biometric, RFID, retinal scan, brain wave scan, etc.
It's only a matter of time until some institutional IT committee following "best practices" starts requiring users to change their fingerprints every 6 months.
Of course, another big factor that attracts older players is the gameplay itself. You don't need the quick reflexes or hand-eye coordination of someone who grew up playing Nintendo, because everything is a puzzle game, from sailing to swordfighting. If you can play Bejeweled, you can help run a ship.
I'm 31, and Puzzle Pirates is the only multiplayer on-line game that I've enjoyed in years. The fact that the gameplay doesn't require twitchy-reflexes or level-grinding is the most significant reason. There's plenty to do when I log on and I feel like I'm accomplishing something in the game, even if I can only play 2 hours in a given week. I can climb the social and economic ladder in the game without devoting my life to it. Your character is as skilled as you are at the puzzles... if you can master the "swordfighting" puzzle in 30 minutes (perhaps because you grew up on a steady diet of puzzle games like tetris and minesweeper), you're on par with the 13 year old who played 40 hours a week to get that good. In other games, he'd be level 80 and I'd be level 10, and I'd stand no chance in a fight because of all the level-based stats and special bonus items he'd have time to accumulate.
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Using mobile technologies for healthcare is not just for self-diagnosis or as an alternative to expensive medical care. Many doctors and hospitals are adopting the technology and encouraging their patients to adopt it. There are lots of things you can do smaller and cheaper where telehealth systems or healthcare websites are currently being used. Preventive medicine mobile applications have been successful for improving health outcomes for patients with chronic conditions, in particular. Read the article before casually dismissing the field as a bunch of hypochondriacs trying to self-medicate.
If you're a developer interested in the mobile health field, the mHealth Summit is currently the best annual conference.focused specifically on mobile health out there: http://www.mhealthsummit.org/ Eric Topol, the subject of the NY Times article in the summary above, was one of the keynote speakers at the 2011 conference, along with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, and FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.
ASUS is also facing a lawsuit from Hasbro, who feels that the name "Transformer Prime" might just be infringing on one of its trademarks... http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/21/it-had-to-happen-eventually-hasbro-sues-asus-over-transformer-name/ Hasbro's asking for an injunction to halt sales until the case is resolved...
I can't find any information about whether or not the Samsung Exhibit II (which just came out in October) for T-Mobile will get Ice Cream Sandwich. Anyone else heard any rumors?
Nice friggin' lasers. Now we just need some friggin' sharks to go with them.
To clarify the summary, the virtual rat project is being done at the Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee). NIH is just funding the project.
So what? My cat can produce spots on the carpet that glow under a fluorescent UV light. I suppose if we had a dog, the cat could pee on the dog and make it glow too. But you don't see cats running of to publish stuff in journals; they have too much important napping and paw-licking to do instead.
The article referenced in the summary says nothing. It just asks some rhetorical questions. Am I supposed to LTFP (Listen to the F-ing Podcast?). There are dozens of good stories about why Netflix is raising its prices. Why lead with that one?
Or, maybe someone was trying to hypnotize Norway... http://www.reallifecomics.com/archive/091210.html ...or failed trying to blow it up.
We just saw the launch of the original Civilization for the iPhone... I'm imagining that EA is looking to do similar things with these other old, but fondly remembered titles. Spruce up the graphics, modify the gameplay to work on the iPhone, and then sell them for $9.99.
I find Amazon's attitude towards DRM to be hypocritical. I buy all my mp3's from Amazon.com (and not iTunes) specifically because Amazon doesn't use DRM on music purchases. I know that music I buy through Amazon can't be remotely erased, I can still play it 10 years from now even if Amazon shuts down their mp3 business, and I can transfer it if I buy a new computer or get a different brand of mp3 player. But when it comes to books and Amazon is selling the hardware AND the content, their attitude sure did change about DRM. I don't own a Kindle, and am not likely to be buying one.
"Verified by Visa" screwed up my Visa card a few months ago. My wife was purchasing airline tickets on-line and unexpectedly got to a "Verified by Visa" page during the checkout. This was the first time either of us had ever heard of or seen "Verified by Visa". Since I'm the primary cardholder, but the tickets were in her name, the Verified by Visa page denied my wife access (even though it's a joint account and we each have our own cards with our own names on them). Then our credit card account got locked for "fraud" (which I found out after calling customer service), so I couldn't even buy the tickets in my name.
We ended up having to get a new card issued with a new number, which took a week, during which I had to make sure that nothing like Netflix auto-billed my old "locked for fraud" card number.
"Thank goodness I still live in a world of telephones, car batteries, handguns and many things made of zinc."
I remember there being plenty of senior-level, non-programming CS classes that I tried hard to stay away from back when I was in college. Theory, Numerical Analysis, Computer Architecture, etc. Sure, some programming was involved, but programming was not the core focus of the class like other CS disciplines like databases, operating systems, software engineering, etc.
Not the same big bucks, but consider going back to school to get a Masters degree in Public Policy. Some schools offer a MPP track in Science and Technology Policy. Or get an MBA and become a consultant with your prized technological + business background.
I work in a computational biology department at a research institution. Everyone I know is either in academic or government research. My only degrees are in Computer Science... I get the biology knowledge I need from my collaborators. Maybe I don't understand your question? What are you hoping to hear? If you are planning on studying for a higher degree in computational biology, that pretty much limits your career choice to "computer scientist working with biology or medical researchers". You are likely to find a job wherever one finds biology and medical researchers (as you noted, academic/government research institutions, biotechs, and pharmaceutical companies). To get a sampling of what jobs in the field look like and what sorts of companies/institutions hire such people, try the International Society for Computational Biology and look at their jobs section.
I didn't want to do this job. I wanted to be... a lumberjack!
I'm a lumberjack, and I'm OK.
I sleep all night and I work all day.
In Indiana, they came close to celebrating Pi Day back on 3/2.
I didn't read the article... Are there five astronauts, each flying individual mechanical lions, joining together to assemble this robot?
This would all be solved if the rest of you would just use public transportation so I could get to work faster.
Surely with all the time in college I spent playing Civ II, I should have been anointed Leader of the World by now. Or at least I could be a mayor, given all the different Sim City versions I mastered.
Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore has a similar telepresence robot to help a doctor do rounds in the urology clinic. I saw a presentation about it at a telemedicine conference last May. The doctor can cover two hospitals and still check on his patients at whichever hospital he isn't physically present at that day. Or he can check on patients in the middle of the night immediately instead of having to drive 45 minutes from his home to the hospital. Here's a story from the Washington Post about JHU's "Dr. Robot".
It's only a matter of time until some institutional IT committee following "best practices" starts requiring users to change their fingerprints every 6 months.