Monday, February 18, 2019

Great white pelican: Stanford Center for Digital Health: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare * * * Stanford lectures - Dr. Bill Clancey and Prof Larry Leifer: Dancing with Neurodesign * * * Re: [Medianthro] Medianthro Digest, Vol 155, Issue 18 - The study of smart phone use and change re the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs * * * Stanford Conference on Mapping the Global Imaginary 1500-1900 Feb 14-15, 2019 (cont) and re WUaS in Wikidata in 300 languages as well


Robert (Chang MD), Robert (Harrington MD), Jonathan (Chen MD) and All,


How much need is there for TRUST in the Epic/Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals)?

And what could blockchain add to these EHRs if they were developed anew with blockchain - and re, for ophthalmological surgery to begin - and planning potentially for all ~200 countries?

And, hypothetically, if Stanford-Duke-WUaS Medicine's / Google's Project Baseline were to develop our own EHRs with trustworthy blockchain ledger data - beginning with ophthalmological surgery blockchain data (what's missing sometimes in Epic EHRs' ophthalmology data that blockchain could help with?) could we develop EHR relationships with the other 50% of hospitals in the US, and with hospitals in all ~200 countries around the world?

Thanks again for your excellent talk, Scott
(Thanks Dr Chang for your great Stanford Medicine CDH (@HeartBobH) Blockchain Technology in Healthcare talk https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cdh-workshop-blockchain-technology-in-healthcare-tickets-56202924460 How much need is there for TRUST in Epic/Cerner EHR data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals) & what could blockchain add to these

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That's my point. Academic health systems made decisions without clear regard for consequences and agreed via contract to terms related to privacy, data sharing, innovation, etc that would have been prohibited in research contracts

https://twitter.com/HeartBobH/status/1097518881306898437


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"Even in 2017, when the patent was filed, these capacities were already under development across broad swathes of the industry, rendering it nearly impossible to enforce such a claim to intellectual property."

https://twitter.com/jonc101x/status/1097651703678087168


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Stanford lectures - Dr. Bill Clancey and Prof Larry Leifer: Dancing with Neurodesign

Dear Scott,

You show great enthusiasm and a talent for relating ideas.  If you are at the NeuroDesign meeting, let’s talk then.

Re: virtual worlds, my only research was with Bruce Damer when he ran Digital Space.  We did a project where a Brahms simulation was coupled to a virtual world of a Mars habitat, which depicted teamwork of the (simulated) astronauts (first paper listed below). I’ve cited two related articles.

 Bill

Clancey, W. J, Sierhuis, M., Damer, B., Brodsky, B. (2005) Cognitive modeling of social behaviors. In R. Sun (Ed.), Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, pp. 151-184. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sierhuis, M., Clancey, W. J, Damer, B., Brodsky, B., and van Hoof, R. (2005) Human activity behavior and gesture generation in virtual worlds for long-duration space missions.  In S. R. Ellis, M. Slater, and T. Alexander (Eds.),  Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments (IMIVE), NASA/CP—2005–213468, pp. 103-133.  Proceedings of IMIVE Conference, London, 2003.

Farkin, B., Damer, B., Gold, S., Rasmussen, D., Neilson, M., Newman, P., Norkus, R., Bertelshems, B., Clancey, W. J., Sierhuis, M., Van Hoof, R. (2004) BrahmsVE: From human-machine systems modeling to 3D virtual environments.  Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Simulation for European Space Programmes (SESP 2004), Noordwijk Holland, October 19-21.


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Dear Bill, (and Larry and Li),

Thanks so much for your email, Bill. I have no plans to be at the NeuroDesign meeting, so perhaps we can carry on our conversation via email until we meet again.

And thanks too: "Dr. Clancey & Prof. Jiang, Thnx for your fascinating Stanford talk & conversation in "How to Think Critically about Artificial Intelligence" https://events.stanford.edu/events/822/82240/ … Would like to stay in touch abt @TensorFlow @TFBestPractices #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~ "

(https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1088878957477253120). 

I've met Bruce only once or twice probably more than a decade ago, but will check out your paper. The direction World University and School would seek to develop with brain/mind modeling in a realistic virtual earth (Google-centric) would build on Tom Dean's - "4. Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation" ....

https://youtu.be/HazJ7LHihG8 (which talk I was at) - as well as MIT's Ed Boyden's related work - "A fly-through through the fly brain...  A new rendering by Y. Bando (Toshiba Memory Corp/MIT), K. Hiwada (Toshiba Memory Corp), R. Gao (MIT/Janelia), S. Upadhyayula (HMS/Janelia), S. Asano (MIT), Y. Aso (Janelia), E. Betzig (UC Berkeley/Janelia), E. Boyden (MIT)" (https://twitter.com/eboyden3/status/1096481932211310593).

In a realistic virtual earth and planning, conceptually, for tele-robotic brain surgery emerging out of Stanford Medicine, this would include modeling individuals' as well as species' brains virtually. 

In Larry's talk, Li also mentioned brain headsets re imaging and seeing the physical images viewed in pictures of neural processing. Am interested in transmitting this  
- these images' data - into this realistic virtual earth - (think again of Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER  Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Brain / Translate / Google Poly / ARCore + with avatar bots of individuals and species, and brains, - and eventually for tele-robotic surgery, for example) - and especially from the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool while soaking (as part of my actual-virtual ethnographic project which would include studying bliss, joy and happiness brain chemistry, so that this might become replicable naturally). More under the 'brain' label in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain (as well as "loving bliss" label+). Am curious further how we might explore this with brain wave headsets such as - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/flower-coral-brainfingers-hands-free.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-brain-music-brainwave-device-tan.html (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/elaeis-guineensis-bright-red-oil-palm.html). Such Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool related research could be germane re astronaut research as well. 

Thanks so much for your email.

Scott

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The study of smart phone use and change re the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs -
Re: [Medianthro] Medianthro Digest, Vol 155, Issue 18

Mediaanthro, Nelson and John (and Nancy Frey, if you're on this list), 

With regards to studying social change and digital telephony, you write: 

John Postill: 
> > There are many ongoing processes of change, and it is impossible to
> > determine precisely to which degree mobile phones contribute to changes.
> > However, there are instances when one can ascertain that phones play a
> > role. I never expected that phone use could help change young wives'
> > position, actually quite drastically. Thanks to phones, they were
> > suddenly able to stay in touch with their natal families right after
> > their wedding and even engage in subversive conversations over the
> > phone.


Nelson Graburn:
"She has accompanied camino pedestrians (serious religious tourists) over 200 times to Santiago. She has noticed the shocking change individuals from no phone - to cell phones - to IPad to Smart p0hones, observing and interviewing hundreds of individuals (and keeping in touch with many after they go home)."


Using the example of the tourism / pilgrimages re "anthropologist tour organizer Nancy Frey on the Camino de Santiago for 20+ years" (e.g. "Pilgrimage in the Internet Age, Nancy Frey, Keynote CSJ AGM 28 Jan 2017" -

https://youtu.be/difuizJGPcQ) am curious in the study of smart phone use and change about how such Santiago tourism data from smartphones (such as photos and videos) from ~200 trips and multiple tourists/pilgrims (not just Nancy Frey's photos) could be added to a realistic virtual earth (think Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow) - and then revisited by putting said smartphone into Google Cardboard or other smartphone-in-a-digital-mask and then even selecting the year or the trip one is interested in revisiting. And in a related vein, for example, how could one plan to document and generate with smartphones such Camino de Santiago trips into the future (both for ethnographic study, and re tourism, aggregating tourists' photos/videos/experiences via interviews etc) - for centuries ahead even.  

For example, imagine this four mile road from Middletown, California, to the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house to be part of the way on a Camino de Santiago pilgrimage: 
Visit the Harbin gate in Google Street View here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ where you can "walk" down the road '4 miles' to Middletown and 'amble' around the streets there, if inclined. And add some photos or videos if you have them - re a new social science method I'm developing - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy - think ethnography as interpretive social science practices, wiki (think fast adding / curating of Wikipedia) and co-building of a virtual world (like in Sansar / Second Life /Open Simulator with avatar bots) but not cartoon-esque, rather realistically.

And for example, 
If you visit Google Streetview here ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ you can see the Time Slider function for 2007 and 2012, for example. And while I took this photo of the Harbin Hot Springs' gate house in 2001 - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7860806,-122.6518315,3a,91.6y,90t/data=!3m8!1e2!3m6!1sAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE!2e10!3e12!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOR33JEA3qzAchuAOEFPss-U_w6cXPc-OsiNgSE%3Dw203-h153-k-no!7i576!8i436!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 - I may have added it to Street View at this 'georeferenced' or "place" link ~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ around 2009. The 'provenance' of when I added my photo should be recorded in Google Streetview/Earth too. 

Then if you go to this 3D representation of the Harbin gate house, before "walking" down the road 4 "miles" to nearby Middletown CA, - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Harbin+Hot+Springs/@38.7859475,-122.6518096,3a,75y,3.07h,90t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sZvCvdrcS5wPenGS_nB4JtA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xde57c3ab0ecaa2c9!8m2!3d38.7860806!4d-122.6518315 - you can see some of the building blocks, and IT structure, for one approach to 3D with smartphones.

With regard to machine learning and smartphones, Google's TensorFlow - https://twitter.com/TensorFlow - "TensorFlow is a fast, flexible, and scalable open-source machine learning library for research and production" - tensorflow.org - is still fairly young machine learning software (and https://twitter.com/TFBestPractices ), but such machine learning as TensorFlow will also inform 3D re-constructions of the ~200+ Camino de Santiago pilgrimages (above), but also inform the generation of further Camino de Santiago pilgrimages experienceable in smartphones in digital masks again as well. (See too the 2nd half of this blog post - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/marram-grass-california.html). 

Mobility will become part of these smartphone pilgrimages, from home too, I think - for the health benefits - but also potentially even on incline machines or x-country ski machines or treadmill walkers ... thus informing new ways and changing ways of doing the Camino de Santiago pilgrimages, now virtually.  

With regard to 'pilgrimages' / traveling to Harbin Hot Springs (aka Heart Consciousness Church/HCC / New Age Church of Being/NACOB) and soaking in the Harbin warm pool (its 'sanctuary'), am interested in studying this in smartphone-digital-masks as well, such that with the mobility of an inclined-walking-machine and a bathtub, one could do such a Harbin trip in new ways, and studying smartphone tourism anthropologically, in new and changing ways as well. See too - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/virtual%20Harbin .  

This study of change and use of smartphones is part of my Actual-Virtual, Physical-Digital Harbin Hot Springs' project / realistic virtual earth project (as well as this new social science method I'm developed and calling 'ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy' - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), and I hope anthropologists studying smart phone developments - ie re Nancy Frey's Camino de Santiago tourism project - will be able to engage such questions of smartphone use and social change in very new ways theoretically as well.

Nancy, how might we best generate the Camino de Santiago pilgrimages / tours with smartphones anew re the above - and even as new forms of organized group tours? Am interested too anthropologically in the differences between, for example, a pilgrimage in 2008 and 2014 re smartphone use (re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), and how we might apply what we learn about smartphone use to create digital and physical pilgrimages of the Camino de Santiago in 2023 and 2028. (And how could we even add all the photos in Nancy Frey's 2017 AGM Google Youtube video talk above and animate them - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/porcupine-needlegrass-sunheart-scott.html - to bring them alive, interactive and conversational in smartphones and in any year we'd like to travel the Camino de Santiago again from home, or even travel on the physical Camino de Santiago with our smartphones in a digital mask in Augmented Reality)?

Best, Scott
- https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity


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Stanford Conference on Mapping the Global Imaginary 1500-1900 Feb 14-15, 2019
Hi Chet,

No, I haven't yet. In the past 2 weeks or so, I've also found some important emails in my spam folder, curiously. I stopped by to try to talk with David Rumsey at the beginning of the afternoon session on Friday, but he was on the phone, so not yet. I wonder with regards to the Urbano Monte map's circularity and its interactivity, about how it might look in Google Streetview in 1587 with TIME SLIDER (simply as a digital image, such as those which you showed, or even contextualized in what we know of about the workshop it might have been made in). From here, I'd think one could add a source image, e.g then time slide 'back' to 1590, to view that map/manuscript, and also, having added "a letter from the barrister Richard Hakluyt to Ortelius, written c 1567-68," concurrently time slide back to 1568. In a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for VR for everything (and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), other scholars would be adding all kinds of sources and documents (with machine learning in the Google Maps' Streetview ecosystem - re the David Rumsey Maps' Center too), including reconstructions of workshops and other Italian buildings and architecture where these maps were made, and manuscripts written, and begin thus to understand such linkages and where things come from in new ways with an abundance of aggregating scholarly resources (and with regard to WUaS's plans to facilitate adding ALL libraries and ALL museums in all 7,097 living languages, ever, to such a, conceptually, Google ecosystem for VR). I think the Stanford University David Rumsey Maps' Center could be in the epicenter of such developments. What might be the best way to talk with David Rumsey about this? Thank you.

Best wishes, Scott

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Chet, 

World Univ & Sch is also in Wikidata/Wikibase as structured knowledge database in (Wikipedia's) 300 languages as a "back end" which will connect with our "front end" eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Art_History and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Modeling (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects eventually in 300 languages, then in some of 7,097 living languages, - and more languages from the past) with much relevance for tracking where things come from - and which could be useful for you. 

Best wishes, Scott



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