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Slip on a set virtual reality (VR) goggles and connected gloves, and you are transported to another world. For the entertainment industry, that kind of immersive VR may mean shoot-‘em-up games where players have to blast blood-thirsty aliens or other bad guys to save the ... Read more
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Health Care Chatbots Are Here to Help
Say hello to Molly, Florence, and Ada—they’re just a few of the helpful, smart algorithm-powered chatbots taking their place in health care. Chatbots are computer programs designed to carry on a dialogue with people, assisting them via text messages, applications, or instant messaging. Essentially, instead ... Read more
Technologies for Primary Health Care Help Meet Global Goals
Access to health care has long been considered to be a human right. It was formally declared in 1946 when the heads of states wrote the constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO). But more than 70 years after the fact, the global community still ... Read more
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Cyborg Insects Could Someday Save Your Life
A tiny cockroach no bigger than a large paper clip scurries across the floor of my bio-engineering lab at the University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA. It is a robot-roach hybrid, a hardwired biological insect,... Read more
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Save the Date: 2019 IEEE EMBS International Student Conference
Conference to be held Nov. 22-24, 2019 in Magdeburg, Germany.... Read more
EMBS’ Next Generation Reflects on EMBC’18
EMBC'18 was held from 17–21 July on the beautiful Waikiki beach of the Hawaiian island Oahu. Around 3,000 Biomedical Engineers participated in the annual meeting of IEEE EMBS. Participants spanned the spectrum from academics to industry, and students to professionals.... Read more
Signal Processing and Machine Learning for Biomedical Big Data
But for one flaw in the first printing of this text, this reviewer highly recommends this reference text. This 28-chapter, 89-author, large-format, liberally illustrated, well-referenced and up-to-date text will be of value to those entering the field and likely to those interested in teaching various aspects of biomedical big data collec... Read more
The Slide Rule
Perhaps, in the far distant back of times, man in his need to somewhat quantify what he had collected to survive, needed to count, and his own fingers and toes became a good first instrument always available, so that easily got to 20 units.... Read more
Fun in the Classroom
Each class session is a different performance. Whether the instructor is at the top of his or her form or feeling very low that day, a mask must come over him or her, and the show commences at the appointed class start time. From that ... Read more
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