Great white pelican: Stanford Center for Digital Health: Blockchain Technology in Healthcare * * * Stanford lectures - Dr. Bill Clancey and Prof Larry Leifer: Dancing with Neurodesign * * * Re: [Medianthro] Medianthro Digest, Vol 155, Issue 18 - The study of smart phone use and change re the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage, and realistic virtual Harbin Hot Springs * * * Stanford Conference on Mapping the Global Imaginary 1500-1900 Feb 14-15, 2019 (cont) and re WUaS in Wikidata in 300 languages as well

Some followup questions and re https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/giant-panda-stanford-cdh-workshop.html: 

And, hypothetically, if Stanford-Duke-WUaS Medicine's / Google's Project Baseline were to develop our own EHRs with trustworthy blockchain ledger data - beginning with ophthalmological surgery blockchain data (what's missing sometimes in Epic EHRs' ophthalmology data that blockchain could help with?) could we develop EHR relationships with the other 50% of hospitals in the US, and with hospitals in all ~200 countries around the world?

Thanks again for your excellent talk, Scott

Thanks Dr Chang for your great Stanford Medicine CDH (@HeartBobH) Blockchain Technology in Healthcare talk https://t.co/blAKdSm8B6 How much need is there for TRUST in Epic/Cerner EHR data (used by ~%50 of US hospitals) & what could blockchain add to thesehttps://t.co/5kitcDG66u?

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) February 18, 2019

- https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1097529161097240578

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You show great enthusiasm and a talent for relating ideas.  If you are at the NeuroDesign meeting, let’s talk then.

Re: virtual worlds, my only research was with Bruce Damer when he ran Digital Space.  We did a project where a Brahms simulation was coupled to a virtual world of a Mars habitat, which depicted teamwork of the (simulated) astronauts (first paper listed below). I’ve cited two related articles.

 Bill

Clancey, W. J, Sierhuis, M., Damer, B., Brodsky, B. (2005) Cognitive modeling of social behaviors. In R. Sun (Ed.), Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation, pp. 151-184. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Sierhuis, M., Clancey, W. J, Damer, B., Brodsky, B., and van Hoof, R. (2005) Human activity behavior and gesture generation in virtual worlds for long-duration space missions.  In S. R. Ellis, M. Slater, and T. Alexander (Eds.),  Intelligent Motion and Interaction within Virtual Environments (IMIVE), NASA/CP—2005–213468, pp. 103-133.  Proceedings of IMIVE Conference, London, 2003.

Dear Bill, (and Larry and Li),

Thanks so much for your email, Bill. I have no plans to be at the NeuroDesign meeting, so perhaps we can carry on our conversation via email until we meet again.

And thanks too: "Dr. Clancey & Prof. Jiang, Thnx for your fascinating Stanford talk & conversation in "How to Think Critically about Artificial Intelligence" https://events.stanford.edu/events/822/82240/ … Would like to stay in touch abt @TensorFlow @TFBestPractices #RealisticVirtualEarth #RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~ "

Dr. Clancey & Prof. Jiang, Thnx for your fascinating Stanford talk & conversation in "How to Think Critically about Artificial Intelligence"https://t.co/NKPxr05G8J Would like to stay in touch abt @TensorFlow@TFBestPractices#RealisticVirtualEarth#RealisticVirtualEarthForLego ~

— WorldUnivandSch (@WorldUnivAndSch) January 25, 2019

(https://twitter.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/1088878957477253120). 

I've met Bruce only once or twice probably more than a decade ago, but will check out your paper. The direction World University and School would seek to develop with brain/mind modeling in a realistic virtual earth (Google-centric) would build on Tom Dean's - "4. Automatically Inferring Meso-scale Models of Neural Computation" ....

https://youtu.be/HazJ7LHihG8 (which talk I was at) - as well as MIT's Ed Boyden's related work - "A fly-through through the fly brain...  A new rendering by Y. Bando (Toshiba Memory Corp/MIT), K. Hiwada (Toshiba Memory Corp), R. Gao (MIT/Janelia), S. Upadhyayula (HMS/Janelia), S. Asano (MIT), Y. Aso (Janelia), E. Betzig (UC Berkeley/Janelia), E. Boyden (MIT)" (https://twitter.com/eboyden3/status/1096481932211310593).

In a realistic virtual earth and planning, conceptually, for tele-robotic brain surgery emerging out of Stanford Medicine, this would include modeling individuals' as well as species' brains virtually. 

In Larry's talk, Li also mentioned brain headsets re imaging and seeing the physical images viewed in pictures of neural processing. Am interested in transmitting this  

- these images' data - into this realistic virtual earth - (think again of Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER  Maps / Earth / TensorFlow / Brain / Translate / Google Poly / ARCore + with avatar bots of individuals and species, and brains, - and eventually for tele-robotic surgery, for example) - and especially from the Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool while soaking (as part of my actual-virtual ethnographic project which would include studying bliss, joy and happiness brain chemistry, so that this might become replicable naturally). More under the 'brain' label in my blog - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/search/label/Brain (as well as "loving bliss" label+). Am curious further how we might explore this with brain wave headsets such as - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2013/01/flower-coral-brainfingers-hands-free.html and https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2010/11/human-brain-music-brainwave-device-tan.html (https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/02/elaeis-guineensis-bright-red-oil-palm.html). Such Harbin Hot Springs' warm pool related research could be germane re astronaut research as well. 

Thanks so much for your email.

Scott

Re your talk, Bill - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2019/01/ranunculus-stanford-how-to-think.html

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With regards to studying social change and digital telephony, you write: 

John Postill: 

> > There are many ongoing processes of change, and it is impossible to
> > determine precisely to which degree mobile phones contribute to changes.
> > However, there are instances when one can ascertain that phones play a
> > role. I never expected that phone use could help change young wives'
> > position, actually quite drastically. Thanks to phones, they were
> > suddenly able to stay in touch with their natal families right after
> > their wedding and even engage in subversive conversations over the
> > phone.

Using the example of the tourism / pilgrimages re "anthropologist tour organizer Nancy Frey on the Camino de Santiago for 20+ years" (e.g. "Pilgrimage in the Internet Age, Nancy Frey, Keynote CSJ AGM 28 Jan 2017" -

https://youtu.be/difuizJGPcQ) am curious in the study of smart phone use and change about how such Santiago tourism data from smartphones (such as photos and videos) from ~200 trips and multiple tourists/pilgrims (not just Nancy Frey's photos) could be added to a realistic virtual earth (think Google Streetview with TIME SLIDER / Maps / Earth / Tensor Flow) - and then revisited by putting said smartphone into Google Cardboard or other smartphone-in-a-digital-mask and then even selecting the year or the trip one is interested in revisiting. And in a related vein, for example, how could one plan to document and generate with smartphones such Camino de Santiago trips into the future (both for ethnographic study, and re tourism, aggregating tourists' photos/videos/experiences via interviews etc) - for centuries ahead even.  

And for example, 

- https://amazon.com/author/scottmacleodworlduniversity

~ http://tinyurl.com/p62rpcg ~ https://twitter.com/HarbinBook ~ http://bit.ly/HarbinBook ~

Hi Chet,

No, I haven't yet. In the past 2 weeks or so, I've also found some important emails in my spam folder, curiously. I stopped by to try to talk with David Rumsey at the beginning of the afternoon session on Friday, but he was on the phone, so not yet. I wonder with regards to the Urbano Monte map's circularity and its interactivity, about how it might look in Google Streetview in 1587 with TIME SLIDER (simply as a digital image, such as those which you showed, or even contextualized in what we know of about the workshop it might have been made in). From here, I'd think one could add a source image, e.g then time slide 'back' to 1590, to view that map/manuscript, and also, having added "a letter from the barrister Richard Hakluyt to Ortelius, written c 1567-68," concurrently time slide back to 1568. In a SINGLE realistic virtual earth for VR for everything (and re ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy), other scholars would be adding all kinds of sources and documents (with machine learning in the Google Maps' Streetview ecosystem - re the David Rumsey Maps' Center too), including reconstructions of workshops and other Italian buildings and architecture where these maps were made, and manuscripts written, and begin thus to understand such linkages and where things come from in new ways with an abundance of aggregating scholarly resources (and with regard to WUaS's plans to facilitate adding ALL libraries and ALL museums in all 7,097 living languages, ever, to such a, conceptually, Google ecosystem for VR). I think the Stanford University David Rumsey Maps' Center could be in the epicenter of such developments. What might be the best way to talk with David Rumsey about this? Thank you.

Best wishes, Scott

World Univ & Sch is also in Wikidata/Wikibase as structured knowledge database in (Wikipedia's) 300 languages as a "back end" which will connect with our "front end" eg https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Art_History and https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Modeling (accessible from https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Subjects eventually in 300 languages, then in some of 7,097 living languages, - and more languages from the past) with much relevance for tracking where things come from - and which could be useful for you. 

Best wishes, Scott

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