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...After getting his master's degree in computer science, Li became a consultant for IDD in 1994, then a financial-database company that was a subsidiary of Dow Jones. Even then, Li says, he was "intrigued with search," long before it became the hugely powerful, money-spinning machine that it is today. At IDD he developed an algorithm that ranked the popularity of various websites. He then got recruited by Infoseek, a company that had developed one of the first search engines in the mid-'90s - only to see Walt Disney acquire the company and shift its focus...
...Race has long been a muddled matter: 1890 classifications included mulatto, quadroon and octoroon, Chinese and Japanese. In 1930, Mexican was listed. The 2010 survey has caused a stir with the inclusion of Negro in addition to black and African American...
Frustrated by how long it takes cutting-edge knowledge to trickle down from the lab to the doctor's office, patients have been rushing to come up with their own ways of achieving what the health care industry calls rapid learning. In October, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), an influential advisory group, hosted a rapid-learning conference at which experts discussed some of the obstacles to aggregating and applying cancer-care data in real time, including privacy issues...
...medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...
...roads, stadiums and hotels have been built in Cape Town and other parts of South Africa for the World Cup. "The rainbow nation," as Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls it, has pulled out all the stops to be ready for the big event. I have a long personal connection to South Africa, having written one book about the country, and then, in the 1990s, I had the great privilege of working with Nelson Mandela on his memoirs. I'm looking forward to being in Cape Town for both the Global Forum and the World Cup, which we will cover with...