| Date | Title | Description |
| Sign up to see | Sign up to see | Sign up to see |
| Mar 24, 2026 | CU Boulder awarded $1.5M to support postdocs amid funding uncertainty | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A foundation based in California has awarded the University of Colorado Boulder $1.5 million to fund postdoctoral researchers amid funding uncertainty.
CU Boulder’s award is part of $55 million in ... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Google partners with experts to launch FireSat for wildfire detection | Wildfires are increasingly becoming a global issue due to rising temperatures and drier climates. Google Research is stepping in with a game-changing solution -- FireSat, a new satellite constellation aimed at detecting wildfires as small a... |
| Nov 21, 2023 | How the shakeup at OpenAI underscores the need for AI standards in health care | The leadership turmoil within OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, is triggering calls for stepped-up efforts to establish standards for how generative AI is used across the health care industry, where experts worry that one or two companies could... |
| Aug 4, 2023 | What Gordon Moore’s Legacy Can Teach Us About Where We Put Our Money | Robin John serves as a Founding Member and Chief Executive Officer of Eventide Asset Management. |
| Jul 20, 2023 | Preparation over panic: How a Boston hospital is priming medical residents for an era of AI medicine | BOSTON — On a Friday morning in July, an internal medicine resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center stood up in front of a crowded room of fellow trainees and laid out a case for them to solve. A 39-year-old woman who had recently v... |
| Jun 30, 2023 | Dandelion Health Launches Pilot to Evaluate Healthcare Algorithm Bias & Equity | What You Should Know:
Dandelion Health, Inc., a startup offering a healthcare data platform that specializes in artificial intelligence and precision analytics, announced today the launch of a new public service to rigorously evaluate the p... |
| Jun 28, 2023 | A replacement for race: Medical experts explore how to eliminate bias in clinical algorithms | WASHINGTON — Most of the medical community has acknowledged that racism is baked into many of its clinical tools: pulse oximeters and kidney function calculators are prime examples. But as presentations at a conference Tuesday showed, physi... |
| Jun 27, 2023 | For volunteers at an eating disorder hotline, being replaced by an AI chatbot carried a painful cost | Early this spring, dozens of volunteers fielding requests from people struggling with eating disorders — many of whom call amid mental health crises — received surprising and abrupt news: Their service at the National Eating Disorders Assoc... |
| Jun 22, 2023 | A 988 operator, faced with a flood of calls, turns to AI to boost counselor skills | Over 1,000 times a day, distressed people call crisis support lines operated by Protocall Services. Its counselors are carefully trained for the sensitive and taxing conversations, but even with supervision on the job, major errors, like fa... |
| Jun 21, 2023 | Amid the AI gold rush, a new company forms to vet models and root out weaknesses | The market for artificial intelligence in health care is about as transparent as a brick wall. New tools achieve impressive results in published studies. But it is often difficult to compare them head to head with similar products, or tell ... |
| Jun 16, 2023 | Getting rid of bias in clinical calculators isn’t as simple as taking race out of the equation | Racial bias is everywhere in medicine, including the calculators doctors commonly use to predict a patient’s risk of disease and inform their treatment. A growing movement is encouraging medical specialties and hospitals to reconsider the u... |
| May 23, 2023 | What does generative AI mean for health care? We asked the experts | Health care companies are racing to incorporate generative AI tools into their product pipelines and IT systems after the technology displayed an ability to perform many tasks faster, cheaper — and sometimes better — than humans.
But the ru... |
| May 23, 2023 | ChatGPT in medicine: STAT answers readers’ burning questions about AI | Artificial intelligence is often described as a black box: an unknowable, mysterious force that operates inside the critical world of health care. If it’s hard for experts to wrap their heads around at times, it’s almost impossible for pati... |
| May 22, 2023 | Making sense of AI research in medicine, in one slide | BOSTON — Scientific journals have become something of a Mad Libs game for GPT: Artificial intelligence can now detect _____, or speedily tell the difference between _____ and _____. But which of these studies are actually important? How can... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Why the early tests of ChatGPT in medicine miss the mark | ChatGPT has rocketed into health care like a medical prodigy. The artificial intelligence tool correctly answered more than 80% of board exam questions, showing an impressive depth of knowledge in a field that takes even elite students year... |
| Apr 3, 2023 | Hospitals pledge to protect patient privacy. Almost all their websites leak visitor data like a sieve | Every hospital in America promises to protect the privacy of its patients and the details of their medical care. And almost every one of them uses sophisticated data tools to track and share the personal information of visitors as soon as t... |
| Mar 25, 2023 | Ушёл из жизни сооснователь Intel Гордон Мур | 24 марта 2023 года ушёл из жизни сооснователь Fairchild Semiconductor и Intel Гордон Мур. Ему было 94 года. Intel сообщила, что Мур мирно умер в окружении семьи в своем доме на Гавайях.
Мур родился в Сан-Франциско 3 января 1929 года. Он пол... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | A new coalition aims to close AI’s credibility gap in medicine with testing and oversight | To read the medical literature, you might think AI is taking over medicine. It can detect cancers on images earlier, find heart issues invisible to cardiologists, and predict organ dysfunction hours before it becomes dangerous to hospitaliz... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | An AI model to predict kidney damage, trained on data from veterans, works less well in women | The study was a page-turner: Researchers at Google showed that an artificial intelligence system could predict acute kidney injury, a common killer of hospitalized patients, up to 48 hours in advance.
The results were so promising that the ... |
| Sep 10, 2022 | PhET Interactive Simulations: Putting Students In The Driver’s Seat Of STEM Learning | In Indonesia, students explore PhET’s Balancing Act simulationMuhammad Zulham, licensed under CC BY 4.0 |
| Jan 15, 2021 | The Last Mile Education Fund is helping low-income women complete tech degrees | A car breaking down. Trouble making rent. Losing second (and third) jobs. Needing a laptop.
Those are just a few of the hurdles to complete software engineering degrees that a group of women talked about at a virtual event Wednesday. These ... |
| Jul 4, 2020 | Covid-19 Coronavirus Won’t Be Last Or Worst Pandemic, How To Stop Panic-Neglect Cycle | General view during a press conference of the World Health Organization (WHO) organised by the ... [+] Geneva Association of United Nations Correspondents (ACANU) amid the COVID-19 outbreak, caused by the novel coronavirus, on July 3, 2020 ... |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Pricey precision medicine often financially toxic for cancer patients | When Kristen Kilmer was diagnosed with incurable breast cancer at age 38, her first thought was of her 8-year-old daughter. Kilmer lost her own mother as a teenager and was determined to get more time with her only child.
Kilmer searched fo... |
| Jul 22, 2018 | Why hospitals should be supportive of patients during care transitions | It was a turning point for the man and his family. “This doctor showed us the reality of my father’s condition,” Garrett said, gratefully recalling the physician’s compassion. A month later, her father passed away peacefully at home.
This k... |
| Jul 8, 2018 | How geriatric assessments could improve cancer care for older patients | Fewer than 25 percent of older cancer patients currently get these assessments, which evaluate a person’s functioning (what he can and cannot do), psychological status, nutrition, cognition, social circumstances and other, coexisting medica... |
| Apr 20, 2018 | Medicare diabetes prevention program grapples with launch challenges | In all but a few locations, experts said, Medicare’s new prevention program — a yearlong series of classes about healthy eating, physical activity and behavioral change for people at high risk of developing diabetes — isn’t up and running y... |
| Jan 22, 2018 | What does the government shutdown mean for healthcare services? | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
According to the HHS plan, the CDC will suspend its flu-tracking program. That’s bad timing, given the country is at the height of a particularly bad flu season, said Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of the N... |
| Nov 13, 2017 | Foxconn, Exact, Ludois, & More: This Week’s Wisconsin Watchlist | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
A major deal between Wisconsin legislators and a foreign electronics assembler, a biotech company’s expansion plans, and an award for electric motors research are among these ... |
| Oct 23, 2017 | A ‘rogue’ clinical trial for herpes vaccine highlights the risks of flouting FDA regulations | Still, many of them felt upbeat when they arrived on St. Kitts and Nevis in the spring of 2016. They had struggled for years with debilitating, painful herpes. Halford, the creator of the vaccine, sounded confident.
Maybe they could be cure... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | As care shifts from hospital to home, guarding against infection falls to families | Angela Cooper arrived home from work to discover her daughter’s temperature had spiked to 102 degrees — a sign that the teenager, who has cancer, had a potentially deadly bloodstream infection. As Cooper rushed her daughter to the hospital,... |
| Mar 15, 2017 | Where you live may determine how you die, study suggests | Americans who want to ensure they have a say in how they die should examine the lessons of Oregon, a new analysis suggests.
Seriously ill people in that state are more likely to have their end-of-life wishes honored — including fewer intens... |
| Feb 6, 2017 | Pogo sticks and family stories: People at life’s end turn to things that make them laugh | Just weeks before Christmas some years ago, Shirley Rapp and her family faced the devastating news that she had what appeared to be a terminal illness.
But that didn’t stop Rapp from wanting to do one last round of Christmas shopping for he... |
| Dec 7, 2016 | California building electronic registry for end-of-life directives | Mary De Freze, who has heart problems, chronic lung disease and a history of falling, knows she may not have too many years left. And she’s clear about what she wants — and doesn’t want — at the end of her life.
“I don’t want to be in a lot... |
| Nov 18, 2016 | Victims seek payments as ‘Dr. Death’ declares innocence | Victims of “Dr. Death” had until this week to submit receipts for unnecessary chemotherapy, medical bills for liver damage, and funeral expenses for their loved ones. By an initial count on Tuesday, 517 former patients and their families ha... |
| Nov 2, 2016 | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Announces Inaugural Moore Inventor Fellows | Committing $33.75M to invest in early-career inventors at U.S. universities
PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–November 2, 2016–
Today, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation selected five aspiring inventors as the inaugural cohort of Moore I... |
| Jan 6, 2015 | Twitter pledges to donate $3 million to nonprofits | This comes after the company donated $1 million to building a homeless learning shelter last year
Say what you will about Silicon Valley, and there is plenty bad to say about it, but companies around here do put their money where their mout... |
| Oct 24, 2014 | Twitter set to open $1M homeless learning center | The company is partnering with Compass Family Services to offer tech lessons to poor citizens
Silicon Valley has been getting all philanthropic recently, and Twitter wants in!
The social network is going to build a learning center, with the... |
| Oct 14, 2014 | Scared of Ebola? It's Zuckerberg to the rescue! | The Facebook founder is giving $25 million to the CDC to help fight the Ebola virus
As with everything these days, the Ebola outbreak (or at least the threat of one) has become a political issue, with Democrats taking aim at Republicans for... |
| Apr 16, 2013 | University Grants Could Aid Data Science Push in New York, Seattle | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The New York Times turned its attention last weekend toward education of data scientists, highlighting a budding “rivalry” between New York City and Seattle.
The paper’s Educa... |
| Mar 30, 2012 | Wikipedia’s Next Big Thing: Wikidata, A Machine-Readable, User-Editable Database Funded By Google, Paul Allen And Others | Wikidata, the first new project to emerge from the Wikimedia Foundation since 2006, is now beginning development. The organization, known best for its user-edited encyclopedia of knowledge Wikipedia, recently announced the new project at Fe... |
| A ‘rogue’ clinical trial for herpes vaccine highlights the risks of flouting FDA regulations | As 20 Americans and Brits flew to a Caribbean island for a controversial herpes vaccine trial, many of them knew there were risks.
The lead U.S. researcher, William Halford, openly acknowledged he was flouting Food and Drug Administration r... |
| Denied by AI: How Medicare Advantage plans use algorithms to cut off care for seniors in need | An algorithm, not a doctor, predicted a rapid recovery for Frances Walter, an 85-year-old Wisconsin woman with a shattered left shoulder and an allergy to pain medicine. In 16.6 days, it estimated, she would be ready to leave her nursing ho... |
| Гордон Мур, основатель Intel: «Я считаю себя случайным предпринимателем» | Гордон Мур, основатель Intel: «Я считаю себя случайным предпринимателем»
25 Октября, 2012, 09:30
Алексей Харченко
1559
17
Гордон Мур присутствовал при создании трех легендарных компаний Силиконовой Долины. Его называет крестным отцом Долины... |
| Medicare diabetes prevention program grapples with launch challenges | Several weeks ago, Medicare launched an initiative to prevent seniors and people with serious disabilities from developing Type 2 diabetes, one of the most common and costly medical conditions in the U.S.
But the April 1 rollout of the Medi... |
| How geriatric assessments could improve cancer care for older patients | In a move to improve cancer care for older adults, the American Society of Clinical Oncology is recommending that all patients age 65 and older receive a geriatric assessment when considering or undergoing chemotherapy.
The goal is to bette... |
| Why hospitals should be supportive of patients during care transitions | The kidney doctor sat next to Judy Garrett’s father, looking into his face, her hand on his arm. There are things I can do for you, she told the 87-year-old man, but if I do them I’m not sure you will like me very much.
The word “death” was... |
| A research team airs the messy truth about AI in medicine — and gives hospitals a guide to fix it | In public, hospitals rave about artificial intelligence. They trumpet the technology in press releases, plaster its use on billboards, and sprinkle AI into speeches touting its ability to detect diseases earlier and make health care faster,... |
| California building electronic registry for end-of-life directives | Mary De Freze, who has heart problems, chronic lung disease and a history of falling, knows she may not have too many years left. And she’s clear about what she wants — and doesn’t want — at the end of her life.
“I don’t want to be in a lot... |
| What does the government shutdown mean for healthcare services? | A government shutdown will have far-reaching effects for public health, including the nation’s response to the current, difficult flu season. It will also disrupt some federally supported health services, experts said Friday.
In all, the De... |
