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Privacy is Dead

admin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:49:10 +0000

About the Talk
You gaze into the Cloud Mirror, and it gazes deep into you. It will violate your privacy, especially if you carelessly litter the Internet with sensitive personal details.

The Cloud Mirror is an art piece which temporarily merges visitors’ online identities with their physical selves. It uses augmented reality, computer vision, and Internet web services to identify visitors by name; mine the Internet for photographs and facts (dirt) about them; and superimpose that data in an on-screen comic book thought bubble that follows the visitor’s motion.

About the Speaker
Eric Gradman is an interactive artist in Los Angeles, CA. His work often features computer vision, large-scale projections, unusual sensors, and custom electronics to produce fun environments that compel people to interact.

Past Talks
BIL 2009 – The Perils of Robotics
BIL 2009 – Demo: Brainwave Controlled iPhone App

About the Conference
BIL is an ad-hoc conference for people changing the world in big ways. BIL2010 was held at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach, CA on Feb 12-14.

Capitalism and Activism for Healthcare Reform

admin — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:10:57 +0000

About the Talk
Today, doctors are manipulated by the fear of malpractice into recommending unnecessary procedures that individuals accept because of an information disadvantage. We have little compulsion to overcome this disadvantage because we are not the primary buyers of our own health care. The current position is untenable, and it’s in our interest to influence more systemic governmental change with the free market. There are models we can build off, and the first step to getting there is creating patient-advocates that possess the medical knowledge and fiduciary responsibility to allow their clients to decrease their personal costs and increase their quality of life despite a broken system.

Slides from the talk

About the Speaker
Tyler Willis is the Director of Marketing of Involver, which helps companies build audiences on social networks.
Personal Website

About the Conference
About the Conference
BIL:PIL is a healthcare unconference, bringing the concepts and ideals of the BIL Conference to the Healthcare industry. We held BIL:PIL 2009 on October 30-31, 2009 in San Diego at the San Diego State University’s BioScience Center. More information at bilpil.com.

Pillbox – Identify Unknown Drugs

admin — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:09:55 +0000

About the Talk
Pillbox is a tool for rapidly identifying unknown pills. It combines high-resolution images of tablets and capsules with FDA-approved appearance information (imprint, shape, color, etc.) to enable users to visually search for and identify an unknown substance.

This is a great tool for poison control, doctors, or anyone who is trying to identify drugs based on pictures and/or descriptions.

Best of all, all the data is public domain and they’re building an API, which will allow other companies to build tools on top of it.

About the Speaker
David Hale works for the NIH as the Project Manager of Pillbox. Pillbox lies at the intersection of his interests: patient safety, biomedical informatics and user experience.

Personal Website | Twitter

About the Conference
BIL:PIL is a healthcare unconference, bringing the concepts and ideals of the BIL Conference to the Healthcare industry. We held BIL:PIL 2009 on October 30-31, 2009 in San Diego at the San Diego State University’s BioScience Center. More information at bilpil.com.

Attraction

admin — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 11:35:34 +0000

About the Talk
When you become more comfortable with yourself, it will improve all aspects of your life, including your dating life.

About the Speaker
David Wygant is a dating coach and image-maker.

About the Conference
BIL2009 was held at CSULB in Long Beach, CA on Feb 13-14.

Communities in Healthcare

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:00:43 +0000

About the Speaker

Chia Hwu is the Community Manager for 23andme and a former organic chemist. She has worked in biotech and tech, been a volunteer coordinator and online community manager at various start-ups. You can find her on Twitter (@chiah) and at her blog, The Subtle Influence.

Life Extension Progress

admin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:56:15 +0000

About the Talk
I will give an overview of the research projects in the area of life extension that the Methuselah Foundation is now funding, their significance to SENS, and their potential to lead to accelerated progress towards the defeat of aging in 2009 and beyond.

About the Presenter
Aubrey de Grey is an author and biogerontologist exploring how regenerative medicine may be able to thwart the aging process altogether within a few decades. He has been interviewed in recent years in many news sources, including CBS 60 Minutes, BBC, the New York Times, Fortune Magazine, the Washington Post, TED, Popular Science and The Colbert Report.

SENS Foundation | Methuselah Foundation

About the Conference
BIL2009 was held at CSULB in Long Beach, CA on Feb 13-14.