Wednesday, January 4, 2017

Weekly Links January 4th , 2017



“MUST READ”
Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island. via Pocket
DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
by Beth Pedersen Marketing Communications MasterControl Health care data is expected to reach a staggering 2,300 exabytes (one exabyte is equal to one billion gigabytes) in 2020. via Pocket
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
The views expressed by James in this blog are his own. Any similarity to the views of anyone, or any organisation, alive, dead or undead are entirely accidental. Short Bio: James received a Molecular Biology degree and PhD from the University of Eas…
Another year of blogging is upon us! Since the J.P. Morgan Conference starts a week from today and then before long it's time for AGBT. So if one is going to prognosticate, then there's no time to lose, as announcements could start flying at any tim…
COMPANIES
In our quarterly analysis of companies pursuing healthcare-focused applications of AI, we reported that deals leapt from less than 10 in 2011 to 60 in 2015. So far this year (as of 8/23/2016), companies in this space have raised over 55 equity fundi…
This morning was a solid block of meetings, but in a pause I checked my phone and saw the shocking headline: Roche Diagnostics had suddenly terminated their partnership with Pacific Biosciences to commercialize the Sequel instrument for clinical app…
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Leaders know that low employee engagement is a sign of lost value—it’s clearly something they want to fix. But most of them don’t know how, so they provide random perks, hoping those will move the needle. It’s much more effective to create a culture…
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling in on social media. via…

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