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- Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors
- A robotic surgeon based on military technology has performed its first brain operation in Canada. The neuroArm was developed as a collaborative effort by the University of Calgary and MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. MDA, a Vancouver military contractor whose best known device is Canadarm used on the...
- Tags: Space Shuttle, Surgeon, Model-driven Architecture, Model Driven Architecture, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Study calls robot the better surgeon
- A surgeon using the DaVinci robot on heart procedures gets better results, according to a University of Maryland study. (This is going to go over big at the club.) Superior Financial and Quality Metrics with Robotically-assisted DaVinci Coronary Artery Revascularization is the name on...
- Tags: Surgeon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Photos: Robotic surgeons
- Intuitive Surgical's Da Vinci surgical robots are now widely used for high-precision prostate surgery, and are being adopted for other procedures. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Surgery, Photograph, Surgeon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-02-12
- Remote+medicine+ready+for+prime+time%3F
- Remote+medicine+ready+for+prime+time%3FSurgeons are already doing......robotic laporascopic surgeries where the Dr is sitting at a console on the other side of the room. He could just as easily be sitting on the other side of the world as long as the connectivity is reliable enough to support it.RE: Remote+medicine+ready+for+prime+time%3FI'd say it...
- Tags: surgeon, Remote+medicine+ready+for+prime+time%3F
- Discussion threads 2008-02-07
- i-Snake, a new robotic surgeon
- Several newspapers in the UK have published today very short articles about the i-Snake, a new surgical robot which will be developed at the Imperial College London ICL. For example, The Times of London writes that the ICL team has won a £2.1 million grant (€2.84 million or US$4.2 million)...
- Tags: Robot, Imaging, Surgery, Surgeon, i-Snake, Robots, Document Management, Emerging Technologies, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-29
- Photos: Cracking open the iPod Touch
- Follow along as TechRepublic's daring surgeons dive inside this year's hottest personal media player. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Apple iPod, Apple iPod Touch, Photograph, Surgeon, Media Players, Digital Music, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-30
- Bones won't be going with you to Mars
- Bones, for those of you under 50, was the nickname given the late DeForrest Kelley's character, Dr. Leonard McCoy on the old Star Trek series in the 1960s. (I hadn't known Kelley was born in Atlanta.) Anyway the big news is that when we finally get to space, probably...
- Tags: Robot, Idea, Surgeon, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2007-09-27
- Liquid crystal burning bright, saves poor Leo from his plight
- Don't you hate it when that happens? Right in the middle of an emergency appendix operation, BAM!, all the power goes out. According to an article in Reuters, Leonardo Molina was on the operating table on July 21st when everything went dark.TIGER, tiger, burning brightIn the forests of the...
- Tags: Phone, Cell Phone, Surgeon, Ed Burnette
- Blog posts 2007-07-31
- A new 'language' for surgery?
- After watching surgeons using robotic systems for a while, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University have decided to borrow ideas from speech recognition research to build what theyre calling a Language of Surgery. In speech recognition, basic sounds are called phonemes. For surgery tasks, such as suturing, dissecting and joining...
- Tags: surgeon, Robotics, Health &, Medicine, Computers &, Internet
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- A new way to find invisible tumors
- An American doctor has developed a new surgery technique that enables surgeons to see tumors and other pathologies invisible with previous methods. This new x-ray vision laparoscopic technology received the first prize for technical achievement at the 62nd annual meeting of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine ASRM. This new...
- Tags: Steven Palter, surgeon, Steven, specific filter
- Blog posts 2006-11-27
- Robotic telesurgery by remote surgeons
- In a few years, telesurgery performed by multi-armed robots remotely controlled by real surgeons located hundreds or thousands of kilometers away will become commonplace. Today, Canadian doctors from the Centre for Minimal Access Surgery CMAS are developing the technology for NASA. Their goal is to build a portable robotic unit...
- Tags: CMAS, portable robotic unit, robotic unit
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- Eurotransplant Equips Surgeons With Instant Access to Organ Information
- Established in 1967, Eurotransplant International Foundation is a not-for-profit organization that helps coordinate the supply of organ donations and related information to relevant institutions. The foundation wanted to replace the restrictive legacy IT infrastructure with an information system that can adapt easily to future needs and provide physicians and surgeons...
- Tags: Microsoft Access, Oracle Corp., Surgeon, Eurotransplant, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software
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- NY gov signs game bill into law
- New York State legislation that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed was signed into law. A bill that will have made it illegal to sell or rent some violent games to minors was signed into law Tuesday by New...
- Tags: Law, Minor, Games, Personal Technology, video games, video game violence, Nintendo DS, New York, Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
- News items 2008-07-23
- The Kübler-Ross of iPhone
- The Kübler-Ross of iPhoneI think Kubler-Ross missed oneActually, there is one that should be added: Apathy. I guess it would start at the same stage as Denial, but never progresses beyond the simple "who cares" level.I won't ever buy an iPhone...why not? Because I don't care about having...
- Tags: Web browsers, Apple iPhone, Web browser, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-15
- Continuous prototyping
- Continuous prototypingFavourite "agile" tricksOne of the ideas in web development that holds true in this context is to get the user "building" as much as possible. A lot of the back and forth stuff disappears when the user is psychologically involved in the process - ie, if they actually chose...
- Tags: Manufacturing, Continuous Prototyping, Demming, software development
- Discussion threads 2008-06-16
- Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumors
- Space Shuttle tech works on brain tumorsI don't think soYou know, I'd rather have the doctor there so, if something went wrong, there was no delay with the information. Relying on secure internet, or satellite communication is too slow, IMO. I don't want someone making decisions based on...
- Tags: Robots, Space Shuttle tech work, tech work, space shuttle, robot
- Discussion threads 2008-06-02
- Supercomputer performs prostate surgery
- A supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center TACC recently piloted a laser to perform prostate surgery on a dog. The operation was done in Houston without the intervention of a human surgeon while the Lonestar supercomputer, a Dell Linux Cluster with 5,840 processors, was in Austin. According to TACC,...
- Tags: Treatment, Houston, Supercomputer, Austin, Surgery, Laser, Lonestar, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- The value in name patients
- In all the coverage of Sen. Edward Kennedy's brain tumor, one fact has gone little remarked. The surgery is taking place at Duke. Not in Massachusetts. In North Carolina. The surgeon is Dr. Allan H. Friedman (right, from Duke University Medical Center). He was...
- Tags: Patient, Hospital, Dr., Duke University, Healthcare, Branding, Marketing, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- News to know: Psystar; IT Dojo; Microsoft moral; SQL Injection attacks; Ubuntu
- Notable headlines: David Morgenstern: Is Psystar Mac clone using the Kalyway boot hack? IT Dojo: Create your own bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft internal memo details Windows 7-Windows Live ties Another reason...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Information Technology, Microsoft Office, Yahoo! Inc., SQL, Microsoft Corp., SQL Injection, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Operating Systems, Strategy, Software, Management
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- How this blog saved my life and saved me $100,000
- A few months back, I told you about how my neck had gone bad, really bad. At that time, I was in the middle of a six-month dive into pain, alleviated only by gobbling unwholesome quantities of Percoset. Three weeks ago last Friday, I had an amazing surgery that relieved...
- Tags: Blog, Doctor, Disc, Health Care, Surgery, Healthcare, Mitch Ratcliffe
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
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