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"Alder Hey, an important children's hospital in Liverpool, England, is working on integrating Microsoft HoloLens augmented reality technology into its operating theaters. The HoloLens is a headset that is able to overlay digital images onto a person's field of view, essentially mixing virtual reality with the real world. The hospital partnered with Black Marble, a Microsoft partner based in the UK, to implement the HoloLens so that it can be used by surgeons to easily access imaging and other data during surgery."

"The Time and Bits: Managing Digital Continuity meeting held at the Getty Center on Feb 8-10, 01998 produced some remarkable insights into the future uses of digital technologies and their impact on the documentation of cultural heritage (see press clippings for summary detail). We will be posting transcripts, images, and video clips from the meeting here in coming days. If you are interested in registering to take part in on-line discussions please do so at the Time & Bits Discussion section of this site."

Of all the fields that artificial intelligence will disrupt in the coming years, healthcare may see the greatest paradigm shift. AI's influence in the industry will be deep and broad. Image-recognition algorithms already help detect diseases at an astonishing rate. Now, a few startups are using intelligent machines to redesign the clinic, redefine the role of the practitioner, and reposition the patient in relation to her own health.

This archive contains many of Turing's letters, talks, photographs and unpublished papers, as well as memoirs and obituaries written about him. It contains images of the original documents that are held in the Turing collection at King's College, Cambridge.

The image of a robot stepping into the shoes of a human worker couldn't be more wrong. When it comes to technology's most significant applications, we are neither usurped or seduced - because the systems involved are nothing like us in either their function or faculties. As a species, we are not in competition with information technology at all: we are, rather, busily adapting the fabric of our world into something machines can comprehend.

"Gareth Morgan (Porthcawl, Wales, 22 December, 1943) is a British / Canadian [organizational theorist]], management consultant and Distinguished Research Professor at York University in Toronto. He is known as creator of the "organisational metaphor" concept and writer of the bestsellers Images of Organization.[1], Imaginization: New Mindsets for Seeing, Organizing and Managing, Riding the Waves of Change and other books on management. He is also well known for his writings on social theory and research methodology, especially through his books Sociological Paradigms and Organizational Analysis (written with Gibson Burrell)and Beyond Method: Strategies for Social Research. The common theme uniting his work is that of challenging assumptions - to help develop new ways of thinking in social research, organization and management theory and practice, and, by implication, in everyday life."

"Visual displays are extremely powerful tools, which means manipulation of these tools can spread inaccurate information and influence public perception. The sheer volume of images making their way through the Internet requires viewers to have a higher level of visual literacy than in years before in order to prevent manipulation. In this article you'll learn The types of displays that can be misleading What can be done to make visual displays less misleading"

while you write your blog post in Blogger, Zemanta opens up a sidebar next to the Blogger post editor. After you've written a few sentences, Zemanta analyzes the words in your post and suggests images and video that are relevant to your post; with one click, it inserts them into your post.

Scientists have discovered how to "read" minds by scanning brain activity and reproducing images of what people are seeing - or even remembering.

IBM has created a 'Visual Recognition Demo' to showcase Watson's latest trick, which allows users to feed Watson an image before it tells you what it believes it sees.

"With the Layar Creator, you can upload images of your greeting card, flyer, package or any other item to instantly create a personalized Augmented Reality (AR) experience."

"Unleash your team's creativity with Jamboard. Sketch your ideas, whiteboard-style, while benefiting from the access and connectivity of an interactive canvas. Drop images, add notes and pull assets directly from the web while collaborating with team members from anywhere."

'Upon my soul you mustn't come into the place saying you want to know, you know' Perhaps an early example of the need for a knowledge sharing strategy?

from Barry Jones, BAE Systems

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