Human controls, standards needed for artificial intelligence, experts say
Artificial intelligence is likely to transform the public sector by automating many government tasks—including making combat decisions. But, according to […]
Health, Science, Tech
Interview: MIT biotech pioneer Bob Langer on how to avoid the “valley of death”
Writer Anita Harris interviews biotech pioneer Robert Langer of MIT on how researchers can avoid the dreaded “valley of death” and start successful companies (as he has).
BIO issues glowing report on US Bioscience Industry
At its International Convention held this week in Boston, the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) issued a glowing report on the State of the US Bioscience Industry.
BIO-IT World 2018 awards top innovators at Boston Conference-Expo
Cambridge science writer Anita Harris reports on award-winning technologies she came upon at the 2018 BIO-IT World Conference and Expo, held May 15-17 in Boston.
Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part III: Apps, Devices & Roadblocks
In her final report in a three-part series, writer Anita Harris reports on digital innovations aimed at improving behavioral and population health through new models for insurance and state systems. She also discusses roadblocks to change.
Wearables & Robots: Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part II
Health Science writer Anita Harris reports on digital innovations aimed at transforming a troubled US health care system. In this blog, part II of a series, she describes wearables, robots, monitors, and several startups with IT to improve and cut costs of long term and health caredelivery systems.
Can Digital Innovation Transform Health Care? Part I
At a recent MIT/Sloan Management School conference on Health Systems Innovation, MIT-Sloan Professor Retzef Levi laid out problems besetting a troubled US health care system. He emphasizing the need to “sow seeds now” for a “visionary, futuristic system” to reduce future illness–and health care costs. The conference featured experts from health, science, business and industrial fields who described promising technologies and roadblocks to change. Part I in this series of blogs describes some current and potential uses of artificial intelligence and machine learning–including IBM’s Watson. Part II lays out potential solutions in health care delivery and long term care. Part III focuses on issues and efforts in behavioral and population health–and roadblocks to change.
Ranger Jean Posts Fresh Pond “Rules of the Road” Signs
Writer, photographer and wunner (someone who walks and runs?) Anita Harris thanks Ranger Jean Rogers for posting “etiquette” signs for Fresh Pond, Cambridge–and confesses to occasional lapses.
