Why Big Data Won’t Cure Us

The biggest challenge for the use of “big data” in health care is social, not technical. Data-intensive approaches to medicine based on predictive modeling hold enormous potential for solving some of the biggest and most intractable problems of health care. The challenge now is figuring out how people, both patients and providers, will actually use […]

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How Do Engineers Translate and Teams Synthesize?

My team and I have been awarded $432,009 from the National Science Foundation, for a project called “Reduce Energy Consumption Through Integrated Design: How Do Engineers Translate and Teams Synthesize?” and I’ll be serving as Co-PI.

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Information at Work: Heuristics for Failing Technologies

Gina Neff Colloquium Talk from Information Science Cornell on Vimeo.

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