by Bruce Brown | January 27, 2017 | Enabling Tech, General News
Is it a freckle, a benign cancer, or a malignant time bomb about to go off? Dermatologists train in part by looking at thousands of images of skin abnormalities as one part of their diagnostic training. Doctors use much more than a single image to make their...
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by Bruce Brown | September 26, 2016 | General News, Health
Did Dad eat today? How long Sally sleep last night? Did John take his medication? How much time did Susan spend sitting versus moving around during the day? Did Jim fall anytime in the last month? These are just some of the questions caregivers, family, and...
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by Bruce Brown | June 20, 2016 | General News, Health
Artificial intelligence, robotics, facial recognition, voice recognition, touchscreen display, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, telemedicine, prescription storage, dispensing, and re-ordering: the Pillo can has all of these features, which is why it is billed as “Your Personal...
by Bruce Brown | May 9, 2016 | General News, Health
There’s a new ELIZA in town, and she’s more proactive than the original. In the 1960s, Joseph Weizenbaum of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory wrote a program that reacted to typed input as a Rogerian therapist would. The big test in artificial...
by Bruce Brown | April 5, 2016 | General News, Health
Suddenly, the race appears to be on to help blind and visually impaired people enjoy if not actually see images transmitted via social media. We recently wrote about Twitter’s new 420 character image description field. Now Facebook is in the game with another...
