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When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things

AIoT: When Artificial Intelligence Meets the Internet of Things: AI is emerging as a driving technology behind the internet of things (IoT). Learn about the new AIoT, and how it will impact the future. Nice visual summary of an exciting area of innovation. The key challenge I feel is who has power over...
Source: visualcapitalist.com

SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity is seen in cases of COVID-19

SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in cases of COVID-19 and SARS, and uninfected controls: Memory T cells induced by previous pathogens can shape the susceptibility to, and clinical severity of, subsequent infections1. Little is known about the presence of pre-existing memory T cells in humans with...
Source: nature.com

7 Predictions for a Post-Coronavirus World

1. Companies that traffic in digital services and e-commerce will make immediate and lasting gains 2. Remote work will become the default 3. Many jobs will be automated, and the rest will be made remote-capable 4. Telemedicine will become the new normal, signaling an explosion in med-tech innovation...
Source: medium.com

Harvard professor says surveillance capitalism is undermining democracy: In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,”

Harvard professor says surveillance capitalism is undermining democracy: In her new book, “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism,” HBS Professor emerita Shoshana Zuboff outlines her belief that surveillance capitalism is undermining personal autonomy and eroding democracy — and the ways she says society...
Source: harvard.edu

Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon

Mountain walker captures rare Brocken spectre: Rhys Pleming and his friend captured pictures of the rare weather phenomenon on New Year's Day.
Source: bbc.com

Autonomy, Belonging, Competence. GMC reports on the ABC of wellbeing.

Caring for doctors Caring for patients: An independent report into the wellbeing of UK medical students and doctors. "In 2018 we commissioned Professor Michael West and Dame Denise Coia, to carry out a UK-wide review to help tackle the causes of poor wellbeing faced by medical students and doctors. ...
Source: gmc-uk.org

City fund managers call for rethink of capitalism

"Two of the world’s biggest fund management bosses have called for a rethink of capitalism and its obsession with constant economic growth, in a plaintive appeal for business and governments to deal more decisively with the challenges of climate change. Anne Richards, chief executive of Fidelity...
Source: www.ft.com

Five management strategies for getting the most from artificial intelligence (AI). "To find out more about what contributes

Five management strategies for getting the most from artificial intelligence (AI). "To find out more about what contributes to successful AI adoption, we helped lead a survey by the McKinsey Global Institute of 3,000 C-level executives across 10 countries and 14 sectors. From that research, we identified...
Source: mit.edu

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by

“In essence Cognitive Load Theory (CLT) is a simple idea: people have limited capacity for processing information; by designing learning experiences and materials in a way that respects those limitations, we can improve the process. “Though there is nothing fundamentally wrong with this idea,...
Source: aconventional.com

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although

Utility of social media and crowd-intelligence data for pharmacovigilance: a scoping review. - PubMed - NCBI "Although social media data has the potential to supplement data from regulatory agency databases; is able to capture less frequently reported AEs; and can identify AEs earlier than official...
Source: nih.gov

Wales' Brexit vote had deeper roots than many are willing to admit: Martin Johnes, Professor of History at Swansea University

Wales' Brexit vote had deeper roots than many are willing to admit: Martin Johnes, Professor of History at Swansea University The Brexit vote was a profound shock to those who like to believe that Wales has a distinctive and progressive culture. It is little wonder that people looked for someone to...
Source: nation.cymru

Word of the day: Bürolandschaft - Office landscape. What does this mean for the modern ‘internet of things’ workspace?

Word of the day: Bürolandschaft - Office landscape. What does this mean for the modern ‘internet of things’ workspace? Can good design and smart equipment work well together? Good to see that the ‘smart workplace’ is climbing the Gartner Hype Curve.
Source: wikipedia.org

Amazon Meanders in Sunglint: The largest river in the world is full of bends and meanders, a result of the water course

Amazon Meanders in Sunglint: The largest river in the world is full of bends and meanders, a result of the water course snaking back and forth across the landscape over time.
Source: nasa.gov

WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant

WiFi Radio Signals Let MIT Researchers Track Movements of People |: Patients that wander away from their beds are a constant headache for nurses, while those that stay bedridden for too long can create problems of their own. New technology from MIT may soon allow hospital staff to see in real time the...
Source: medgadget.com

A stable plasma ring has been created in open air for the first time ever: Researchers say it's "essentially capturing lightning

A stable plasma ring has been created in open air for the first time ever: Researchers say it's "essentially capturing lightning in a bottle, but without the bottle."
Source: futurism.com

Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less

Using social media to support small group learning: Medical curricula are increasingly using small group learning and less didactic lecture-based teaching. This creates new challenges and opportunities in how students are best supported with information technology. We explored how university-supported...
Source: biomedcentral.com

Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency

Reducing patient mortality, length of stay and readmissions through machine learning-based sepsis prediction in the emergency department, intensive care unit and hospital floor units. Sepsis management is a challenge for hospitals nationwide, as severe sepsis carries high mortality rates and costs...
Source: bmj.com

Peter Senge and the learning organization. Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are

Peter Senge and the learning organization. Peter Senge’s vision of a learning organization as a group of people who are continually enhancing their capabilities to create what they want to create h…
Source: infed.org

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring

UK citizens are taking air pollution monitoring into their own hands: Thousands of people are using home air quality monitoring kits due to fears official figures are not capturing dangerous pollution levels, say Friends of the Earth
Source: theguardian.com

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed

UK needs to act urgently to secure NHS data for British public, report warns: Algorithms based on NHS records could seed an ‘entirely new industry’ in AI-based diagnostics and mint billions for tech companies, strategic review reveals. "Sir John Bell, a professor of medicine at Oxford university...
Source: theguardian.com