IBM Has Ideas for President Elect
Ginni Rometty,Chairman, President and CEO, at IBM Corporation sent an open letter to President-Elect Trump outlining a series of initiatives she believes would be helpful to the new administration and consistent with stated goals. As the leader of the nation’s largest technology employer, she has some points of view which should be listened to. The […]
Watson correctly diagnoses woman after doctors were stumped | SiliconANGLE
2016 has seen many new developments related to curing cancer. There remain many unknowns, but researchers are climbing the learning curve. A key tool in understanding the cancer of a particular patient and determine what treatment to recommend is the supercomputer. Japanese doctors at the University of Tokyo’s Institute of Medical Science were treating a […]
Publications by John R. Patrick | Attitude LLC
It seems like I have been writing papers for a long time. Engineering school did not require any I can recall. However, I wrote a thesis (included here) for my masters degree back in 1971. Then I went dark for a long time until I got heavily involved with Internet technology, while I was at […]
Former Editor-in-Chief of PC Magazine Reviews Health Attitude
I was delighted to see Bill Machrone’s review of Health Attitude on the Amazon site. His review follows below. I have known Bill for more than twenty years, back when I was VP for Marketing in IBM’s Personal Software Products Division and Bill was Editor-inChief at PC Magazine. I started reading PC Magazine in August […]
How Watson Is Helping Cancer Patients
Physicians are increasingly able to sequence a cancer tumor and use the data to find a match with a treatment that can cure the patient. The problem is that the analysis can take weeks. IBM is deploying its Watson supercomputer technology to reduce the analysis to minutes. In collaboration with 14 cancer centers (and more to follow), […]