Greg Laden is a blogger, writer and independent scholar who occassionally teaches. He has a PhD from Harvard in Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, as well as a Masters Degree in the same subjects. He is a biological anthropologist, but for many years before going to graduate school to study human evolution, he did archaeology in North America. He thinks of himself as a biologist who focuses on humans (past and present) and who uses archaeology as one of the tools of the trade. Greg blogs regularly on ScienceBlogs at http://www.scienceblogs.com/gregladen/.
Dr. Joseph J. Salvo attended Phillips Andover Academy, received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his Master and Ph.D. degrees in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University. Dr. Salvo joined the GE Global Research Center in 1988. His early work focused on the development of genetically modified bacteria and fungus, for the production of novel high performance polymers. In the mid 1990's he turned his group's efforts towards developing large-scale internet-based sensing arrays to manage and oversee
business systems. Most recently, he and his team have developed a number of complex decision engines that deliver customer value through system transparency and knowledge-based computational algorithms. Commercial business implementations of his work are currently active in Europe, and Asia as well as North and South America.
Dr. Peter Tu received his undergraduate degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his doctorate from Oxford University England.
In 1997, he joined the Visualization and Computer Vision Group at the GE Global Research Center in Niskayuna, NY. He has developed algorithms for the FBI Automatic Fingerprint Identification System. He is the principle investigator for the ReFace program, which has the goal of automatically computing the appearance of a person’s face from skeletal remains. Dr. Tu has also developed a number of algorithms for the precise measurement of specular and high curvature objects. His current focus is the development of intelligent video algorithms for surveillance applications.
Well, everyone...it's April, which means we've reached the end of our stockpile of daily questions. We have truly enjoyed reading all of your responses to our questions; the thoughtfulness and insight you put into them exceeded our expectations, and many of the issues that were brought up in them sparked fascinating discussion.
We thought asking about how you expect the new health care reform law to change your experience with health care would be a good way to wrap up our questions. Most of you said something along the lines of "I'm really not sure!" which we think says a lot about the law in and of itself - it's a tricky one to understand. General expectations are that insurance premiums will go up and access to doctors will become more limited, but on the plus side, you will not be denied or dropped from your insurance for pre-existing medical conditions.
While this is the last (semi) daily question on the Collective Imagination blog that we have prepared, we'd like to see if we can keep going with them. We want to hear from you what you would like to have answered by your fellow readers.
So, today's question is
Oh yeah, and we do have one last USB winner...SouthernFriedSkeptic, email us at [email protected] to claim it!
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Comments
What does the term Health 3.0 meant to you?
Posted by: Fisher Qua | April 5, 2010 4:32 PM | Reply
When will every doctor, nurse and significant caregiver carry around a hand-held unit so they can see the patient's information (collected from everywhere) so they don't ask the same questions over and over again!
Posted by: NewEnglandBob | April 5, 2010 4:56 PM | Reply
What is the definition of "health care provider"? It sounds so broad and so vague as to have almost no meaning. Who is a health care provider? Doctors? Nurses? Midwives? The cleaning staff at the hospital? What about the cleaning staff at a small clinic? A pharmacist? The untrained retail part-timer working at the health-food-and-supplments store?
Posted by: TheBrummell | April 6, 2010 12:41 PM | Reply