Keynote Address: Medical Informatics and Emergency Medicine

Emergency medicine: welcome address.

Keynote Address

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria annually causes hundreds of millions of illnesses, and more than half a million deaths. Surely these transaction costs of mosquito bites vastly exceed the value of the blood actually taken. In payment instruments, of course, a major goal is to reduce transaction costs, and intuitively cutting those costs seems especially urgent when they are ...

Keynote Address

THE Joint AlEE-Institute of Radio Engineers (IRE)-Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Computer Conference Committee certainly is gratified that the second annual conference is receiving the same enthusiastic support from such a wide group of engineers as did the first conference in December 1951 in Philadelphia, Pa. It was very reassuring during the planning of this conference to hear fro...

Emergency medicine, disease surveillance, and informatics

Traditional handwriting recognition algorithms rely heavily on small lexicons and clean word images. Unfortunately, emergency medical documents do not satisfy either of these conditions. This paper describes a strategy whereby given an image representing a noisy handwritten word from a medical document, and a large lexicon consisting of English, medical and pharmacological words, symbols, abbre...

Nomadic computing (keynote address)

Nomadic computing is a phenomenon in computing and communications that is spreading rapidly. At this stage of its technology, the key problems and the basic understanding of its underlying principles are only beginning to be identified. Analysis and design tools are needed to assist in its development. In this paper, we discuss the nature of the tools and what one might look for in the way of a...