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Google declares war on $2 trillion health care industry

The Google health care die has been cast, it is a $2 trillion dollar declaration of medical intent.Adam Bosworth, Google Vice preisdent Engineering,  is no longer content with "touch-feely" consumer reach-out campaigns to "learn" what the "health care consumer" wants, he is now doing what Google does best: Telling the world how...

Tags: Google

Blog posts 2007-05-24

Google Search: Is PageRank reliable?

How reliable is Googles beloved PageRank based search algorithm formula?Google blogger Matt Cutts points to a fellow Googler blog post, that of Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google. Cutts’ Google shout out warns of self-selection bias in toolbar driven metrics.One of the first commenters at Cutts’ blog, Michael...

Tags: Search Advertising, Metrics, Google, Google Software Applications, Search

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Google on Search:'Natural Language works when it isn't'

Is “Natural Language” the magic search bullet that will dethrone the Google search kingdom? Powerset, a search start-up in “semi-stealth mode,” is now licensing Natural Language patents and technology from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center PARC, the New York Times reports: "Powerset hopes the technology will be the...

Tags: Adam Bosworth, Google, Google Inc., Google Software Applications, Search, Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-02-09

Google's Adam Bosworth to NYC technologists: Speed rules

I took Google up on its invitation to hear Adam Bosworth, Vice President of Engineering, speak on “Physics, Speed, and Imprecision: What Works and What Doesnt in Software, and Why," at the New York City Googleplex this evening. Bosworth has held senior management positions at Microsoft, including serving as General...

Tags: AJAX, XML, Microsoft Office, Adam Bosworth, Google Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-29

Another Adam Bosworth sighting

Dirson.com reports another Adam Bosworth sighting with the title "Architect, Google Health" -- just like the one found in the attendee list of PC forum. This time he is slated to be a featured speaker at DISA Customer Partnership Conference 2006 on May 4.For those who don't know, DISA...

Tags: Google Health, Google Inc., Health, Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2006-03-30

Bosworth: Intelligent reaction, not intelligent design

Adam Bosworth, former Microsoft and BEA development guru and now a Google engineering vice president, gave a presentation at the salesforce.com user event that offered a much improved articulation of the notion of continuous improvement and innovation I wrote about my recent post on Microsoft making some of its Office...

Tags: Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2005-09-13

The MetaDating Game

Marc Canter bought me dinner last night. Does that mean I'm pimping Marqui now? Guess it does.Marc then sprinted back to the hotel for an 8:30 Birds of a Feather session where Dick Hardt finally had enough time and a persistent questioner to explain both the mechanics and the business...

Tags: Microsoft Corp., attention.XML

Blog posts 2005-03-16

The future of search

Adam Bosworth, Google vice-president of engineering, joins The Gillmor Gang to discuss the future of search. Bosworth suggests that the same architectures used to make Web servers more scalable could be used to improve search. Data routers could know about the information located on back-end servers and could query servers asynchronously according...

Tags: Gillmor Gang, serverS, Adam Bosworth

Blog posts 2005-01-18

Where have all the good databases gone

Former Microsoft and BEA and now Google software wizard Adam Bosworth has a controversial blog post on the problems with today's database products, and calls on the open source community to rise up and create the Apache of databases...My message is to the Open Source community that has, so ably,...

Tags: database

Blog posts 2005-01-04

Bosworth on simplicity and complexity

Adam Bosworth's talk at ICSOC04 International Conference on Service Oriented Computing has generated interesting and compelling conversation about the virtues of simplicity versus complexity in building software foundations: "It is an ironic truth that those who seek to create systems which most assume the perfectibility...

Tags: Adam Bosworth, Improv

Blog posts 2004-11-29

Bosworth, BEA and Google

Steve Gillmor speculates on the impact of Adam Bosworth's sudden exit from BEA and employment at pre-IPO Google. According to Steve, Bosworth's move puts pressure BEA to "complete the work of open-sourcing the Alchemy framework as planned. As with the earlier Beehive contribution, Alchemy's intelligent caching framework was meant to seed...

Tags: BEA Systems Inc., Adam Bosworth, Alchemy

Blog posts 2004-07-27

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Microsoft increases Be Well prize fund by 50%

Microsoft has bumped the Be Well fund meant to jump-start HealthVault applications by 50%, to $4.5 million. It also named its judging panel. Most are names well-known only in the computing or medical industries, like Google-ex Adam Bosworth, longevity guru Mark Liponis, and medical dean Valerie Montgomery...

Tags: Panel, Microsoft Corp., Newt, Productivity, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Press Day: Google Heath is now public

Today Google hosted their "factory tour" which was basically a chance for them to give the press a good idea of what they have been working on. It was heavy on the explanation of how Google's search results are becoming smarter, and more able to predict what a person...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-05-19

Google Health set to launch today

Google Health has been talked about for a long time -- the project was started by former Google employee, Adam Bosworth, but has been taken over by Marissa Mayer since his departure. The service has been long awaited, and heavily speculated about, but according to the AP, Google is...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Service, Google Health, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2008-02-21

Yang%3A+No+decisions+made+on+Microsoft+bid%3B+Tells+troops+to+stay+focused

Yang%3A+No+decisions+made+on+Microsoft+bid%3B+Tells+troops+to+stay+focusedPretty smart move. No matter how much he might hate MS, he knows that hehas to do what is right for shareholders, though that may not be best for employees. Well, really, the employees do not have to worry, they can move over to Google and other companies if/when that...

Tags: Workforce management, Financial accounting, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-02-06

Marissa Mayer promises Google Health soon

During the Web 2.0 summit, Marissa Mayer told the audience to expect Google Health early in 2008. Marissa has taken over the project started by Adam Bosworth -- an ex-Googler he recently joined Facebook who has spent much time talking to people about how Google will play a part...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Marissa, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-10-18

Google mojo comes from open source management

Google is hot right now. Microsoft circa 1992 hot. Jim Cramer right recently  began pounding the table for Google stock at $600, and expects it to hit $1,000. It's already up to $625. Even at that price its market cap of $195 billion is...

Tags: Google Inc., Google News, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Corp., Blogger, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Benefits, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-11

Today's Debate: Is HIPAA killing medical automation?

The last time I mentioned HIPAA here, we had a nice little debate.I asked whether HIPAA should be scrapped. Most of you believed that it should be amended instead.Fair enough. But with the first HIPAA audits now going down starting at the hospital where my kids were born the level...

Tags: Regulatory compliance, Regulations, Dana Blankenhorn, HIPAA

Blog posts 2007-09-13

Screenshots of Google Health

Google Health has been rumored since March 19, 2006 when I noticed Adam Bosworth's title during the PC Forum conference. Today, Philipp Lenssen was sent some screenshots from a demo being circulated to health professionals and advisors. Some people (especially those who don't leave the house without a...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Google Health, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2007-08-14

Google, Microsoft and the glacial healthcare revolution

Google recently took a hit for a blog post by a salesperson who was evangelizing healthcare clients that the spending marketing funds Google ads could counter the negative publicity from Sicko. But Google's real interest in healthcare is more about its search and hosting businesses, as reported by Steve Lohr...

Tags: Google Inc., Health Care, Microsoft Corp., Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-08-14