http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/03/the-robot-will-see-you-now/309216 MT @drseisenberg: #Robot Will See You Now – Atlantic
http://bit.ly/15VdRtM #mhealth From med Watson, to genomics, to self-monitoring…
http://wisee.cs.washington.edu
WiSee is a novel interaction interface that leverages ongoing wireless transmissions in the environment (e.g., WiFi) to enable whole-home sensing and recognition of human gestures. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room).
XSEDE is the computational infrastructure for iPlant
(http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/).
iPlant is a bit like Galaxy — it’s supposed to be a user-friendly interface on top of the raw hardware.
http://www.iplantcollaborative.org/discover/discovery-environment
iPlant is NSF’s version of DOE’s kbase; they literally have identical goals.
https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/overview
https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/using-xsede
https://www.xsede.org/tacc-stampede
400G per user (multiple users allowed),100k CPU hours for start up.
Integrated analysis of recurrent properties of cancer genes to identify novel drivers
Accord Aims to Create Global Trove of Genetic Data
Phil Noble/Reuters
By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 5, 2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they have agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information. ….
large scale analytics to objects talking to each other
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/05/internet-of-things
QT:”
THE SECOND STAGE—the yoking together of two or more smart objects—is the trickiest, because it represents the vertiginous shift from analysis, the mere harvesting of helpful data, to real automation. This is a leap that tries our nerves: No matter how thoroughly we might use data to fine-tune our lives and businesses, it’s scary to take any of those decisions out of human hands. But it’s also a challenge to our imagination. In a non-programmable world, when few objects are connected, it can be tough to grasp how even pairs of things might naturally fit together. Alex Hawkinson of SmartThings likes to draw an analogy to Facebook, which has famously described the underlying data it owns as the social graph—the knowledge of who is connected to whom and how. Hawkinson wants us to think of a “physical graph” where all the objects in our lives take on similar underlying connections, based on how we might want the state of one object to depend on the state or behavior of another.
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Perhaps the new platform to target development — as opposed to PC screen
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/MONEY/usaedition/2013-05-29-Forecast-Tablet-shipments-to-outpace-PCs-by-2015_ST_U.htm