Winter 2009
Volume 13.4
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Health and Biomedical Informatics
Without electronic health records and e-prescription data, even the most well-intentioned care could miss the mark.
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Personalized Medicine: All about you
Genomic information about our deepest biological selves helps tailor the medical interventions most likely to make and keep us well.
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Better Data, Better Health?
Do no harm means preventing medical procedures and prescriptions when none is truly warranted.
NET NEWS
Trojan Horse Inside?
Could backdoors secretly installed in hardware cause aircraft, missiles, and radars to fail in times of crisis?; no matter which smartphone sells the most, consumers benefit from the competition among Apple, Motorola/Google, and Research In Motion; replacing manuals, augmented reality displays guide mechanics through the intricacies of engine repair; Dvorak enthusiasts still want respect, and a superior keyboard; crowdsourcing helped Netflix improve the efficiency of its movie-recommendation algorithms; the plagiarism cops know if we’ve copied someone else’s work wholesale or simply pinched a phrase without attribution.
BUSINESS: THE 8th LAYER
Sniper Forensics
If you’re really lucky, you’ll get to review a system while it’s still under attack.
PUTTING IT TOGETHER
All Together Now
Don’t want it public? Don’t put it out there in the first place.
VIEWPOINT
Learn Without the Web
The non-digital research process is an end in itself, though most students don’t buy the rationale.
BOOK REVIEWS
Current Titles, Ideas, Sources
The Public Domain by James Boyle; Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely; and Total Recall by Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell
Mystical Math
Tetraktys by Ari Juels
THE LAST WORD
Privacy in the Era of Genomics
The flood of genomic data we’re collecting about ourselves could also be used against us.
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