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Last evening while cooking dinner I surfed TV channels and came across a C-SPAN press conference at the Brookings Institute about an editorial piece published in the Intl. Herald Tribune on 1/7 by NY Senator Charles Schumer and Charles Roberts, a former Treasury undersecretary in the Regan administration. As my chops sizzled they discussed the piece titled “Exporting jobs is ...

This is an interesting article about the evolution of the social networking and the information that it gathers. The author poses the question, ‘is friendster.com the next step toward the Total Information Act’? She notes that even ardent privacy activists are posting and using these Friend of a Friend (FOAF) sites. If we are so concerned with privacy from the ...

The Health Reminder Assistant is close to pilot launch. The big question in my mind is, “will people play” will they go online and use the service? From a technology standpoint, the system rocks. An extremely complex back end using IVR, PHP, XML, and encrypted with 64 bit encryption. But really its the front end that brings folks back. So ...

On the road to “personalized medicine” it’s going to be necessary to drill down past some of our old generalities and look at some subtle differences. Here’s a new institute at Georgetown U to study differences of medical significance between men and women. Differences between men and women with biological significance include a lot more than the obvious.