Patients Crusade For Access To Their Medical Device Data
Mon, 2012-09-03 22:27 — deb
Digital implants raise important questions about the nuances of patient information access.
Hugo Campos, ICD patient, made this image with one of his own X-rays.
A novel organizing system for travel buffs
Mon, 2012-09-03 22:24 — mgutmanIt’s March 1st and you’re looking at your calendar. You start to panic, not because midterms are looming, but because you have not made any plans for spring break. The possibilities are endless, and with the Internet at your fingertips you start thinking of ideas: San Diego, Cancun, Vancouver, Sydney? You quickly realize, however, that planning travel online is extremely challenging. There are literally thousands of sites with hotel information, trip ideas, and deals.
YouTube Testing Moodwall for Content Discovery
Mon, 2012-09-03 22:22 — ArenoldCorporate Garb and Garbage
Mon, 2012-09-03 22:19 — sydneyFrom: "Want to be a Corporate Archivist? It Sure Helps to be a Pack Rat" by Emily Glazer, Wall Street Journal, August 29, 2012
Clipper Card A Hit Across Bay Area Transit Agencies
Mon, 2012-09-03 21:17 — BMurphyOver the past two years, Bay Area transit agencies have rolled out the Clipper Card system. The single plastic card allows riders to travel across over 20 transit systems throughout the Bay Area, including AC Transit, BART and SF Muni. Though not without it's technical glitches and implementation criticism, the Clipper Card has successfully attracted commuter support and adoption. This success has been, in part, due to the use of critical design elements outlined in McGrath and Murray's "Principles of e-Government":
Simulating Organisms
Mon, 2012-09-03 20:38 — eric.zanComputers have been simulating specific cellular processes for years, but now a complete organism has been modeled thanks to the work of those at Stanford University and the J. Craig Venter Institute. Although only a single cell bacterium, a 128 cluster of computers take 10 hours to simulate a single division of the cell.
AADHAR - India's gateway to effective governance
Mon, 2012-09-03 19:24 — rohansThe article reiterates the importance of the "AADHAR" initiative to succeed for the country to achieve effective governance with a huge social impact.
The Internet Archive - “One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth”
Mon, 2012-09-03 19:19 — ryanfbakerhttp://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/08/brewster-kahle/
The creation and maintenance of the Internet Archive and its associated collections are among the most ambitious projects that have been undertaken involving the preservation of information in the Internet age. They are also prime examples of core Organizing System concepts put into practice.
College football classifications and resources
Mon, 2012-09-03 19:15 — markbrazinskiNYPD and Microsoft Create a Next Generation Law Enforecement Big Data Solution
Mon, 2012-09-03 19:10 — vanessa
