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Articles by Pieter van Rooyen
Entropy, Annealing, and the Continuity of Agency in Human–AI Systems
This version is not peer-reviewed. You are already at the latest version Adaptive systems that couple inference to irreversible commitment are governed by a rate-capacity law analogous to Shannon's: agency persists only while the induced informational flux Rself remains below the integrative capacity Cself.
Xconomy Forum Rides Wave of Big Data/Big Bio Startups in San Diego
As the Xconomy Forum on Big Data Meets Big Biology draws near, one of the best arguments for understanding the significance of the convergence of data science and the life sciences may lie in what came out of the 2013 sale of San Diego’s EcoATM. Founded by several veterans of the wireless semiconductor industry, EcoATM created a business where there wasn’t one for recycling smartphones and other electronic devices.
The Reconfigurable Future of Healthcare | Xconomy
Data plays a more central role in healthcare than ever before. It won’t be long before every person’s genome is sequenced at birth, with follow-up sequencing done at regular intervals throughout life. Each genomic check-up would produce roughly 180 gigabytes of data that will need to be processed, analyzed, and stored. The promise of using such data is that doctors would be able to intercept diseases before symptoms develop, taking preventative medicine to a whole new level.
In the Face of Genomic Data Challenges, the Cloud Keeps Us Afloat
The data intensity of genomics is so intense that it’s difficult for most people to comprehend. According to estimates published in the journal PLOS Biology, as many as 2 billion human genomes could be sequenced by 2025, which would far exceed the data output expected of other “big data domains,” such as astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube.
My Déjà vu Moment in Genomics: Why We Need Industry Standards Now
My Déjà vu Moment in Genomics: Why We Need Industry Standards Now I am a serial entrepreneur who has spent the past couple of decades advancing the front lines of technology in digital healthcare, wireless communications, and semiconductor industries. And I’ve been experiencing a déjà vu moment in genomics. Back in 1994, when I was designing electrical circuits as part of my doctorate program at the University of Johannesburg, the first smartphone hit the market. It sold for a little over $1,000.
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