Medical, health, & genomics
Accelerating discoveries in medicine, health, and genomics through advances in computing, AI, and data science.
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TechFest Workshop – Theory Day – Session 4
Reconstructing a sequence from its short substrings, called reads, is a central problem in DNA sequencing. I will introduce an adversarial error model for the reads, and show that a simple algorithm leads to approximate…
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Think Next 2016- Jasmin Fisher, Senior Researcher, Microsoft
Watch Jasmin Fisher a senior researcher at Microsoft Research talks about how technology can help us solve and fight cancer. Truly inspiring
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Expeditions: Exploring the unknown
Jeannette M. Wing Photo credit: Scott Eklund/Red Box pictures By Jeannette M. Wing, corporate vice president, Microsoft Research “Think Bolder, Aim Higher” is a mantra I’ve been chanting since my arrival at Microsoft three years…
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Exiting the Age of Priestly Medical Advice?
Stephen will be talking about his recent work on wearable devices and how it will impact healthcare in people’s lives.
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A Practical Approach to Ultra Long-Term Data Storage on DNA
Some of the oldest information our society has access to is the genetic information of ancient species discovered in the DNA of fossil bone (up to 300,000 years old). However, DNA in solution or in…
