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Digitized cover
A year after this new book was commissioned, and it is with the publisher, Oxford trade. I've had a lot of fun writing it - I was lucky enough to interview many pioneers of computer science, old and new. We've now decided the best title should be Digitized and we've…
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Pre-social networks in New Scientist
I'm quoted in another New Scientist article, this time about some interesting work performed by one of Boeing's research groups. It's a system that uses a combination of the Wifi and Bluetooth trace from your gadgets to plot where you've been, and then make predictions about where you will go…
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Reader comment for The Book of Numbers
Every author likes to hear from their readers, especially when they express their own enthusiasm in the subject. Here's a recent message:
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CNN quote
The use of smartphones for mobile sensing is really starting to take off. One group in EPFL uses an iphone coupled with several adhesive ECG sensors to enable patients to monitor their own hearts. Software on the phone can automatically detect if there may be a problem and alert the…
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iStethoscope Pro in the media
It's the app that never stops! I've been asked for permission for my iphone app iStethoscope Pro to appear in the "Yearbook for Physicians and Dentists," which is published annually by a German savings bank at quite a large scale: 50,000 copies. In the chapter on "Trends and Future" this…
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IT Future of Medicine
I've been asked to be a consultant on the IT Future of Medicine EU Flagship project proposal team. This is an exciting vision of the future of medicine, where computers will be used to model all aspects of patients to provide doctors with personalised predictions of likely illnesses for their…
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iStethoscope Pro on BBC TV World
My iphone app iStethoscope Pro is in the media again, this time appearing as a short piece in the BBC World TV Healthshow, series 1, episode 2. Rockhopper TV films this show in the new Cancer Research building in London. Although it's broadcast all over the world with audience figures…
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