December 2011
2 posts
John Glaser on Healthcare Information Technology
I recently sat in on a lecture for Professor Peter Szolovits’s Biomedical Computing course. The lecture was open to a greater audience, given the prominence of the speaker. As a non-expert, I found it to be a useful look into the current state of healthcare IT and the coming legislative and technical challenges facing the industry. My notes are below.
John Glaser, Ph.D.
Formerly CIO of...
Human-powered Sorts and Joins
(Cross-posted on the Crowd Research Blog)
There has been a lot of excitement in the database community about crowdsourced databases. At first blush, it sound like databases are yet another application area for crowdsourcing: if you have data in a database, a crowd can help you process it in ways that machines cannot. This view of crowd-powered databases misses the point. The real benefit of...