2016 Nyquist Lecture in Electrical Engineering: “Small Data: From Mobile Health to Immersive Recommendations”

Event time: 
Wednesday, March 9, 2016 - 4:00pm
Location: 
Becton Center, Davies Auditorium See map
15 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science; Department of Electrical Engineering present:

The 2016 Nyquist Lecture in Electrical Engineering.

Deborah Estrin, Professor, Cornell Tech, Co-Founder, Open mHealth and Founder of the Health Tech Hub, Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute:  “Small Data: From Mobile Health to Immersive Recommendations”.

The social networks, search engines, mobile apps, Internet of Things vendors, online entertainment, and e-commerce sites that we access every hour of most every day extensively use our digital traces to tailor service offerings, improve system performance, and target advertisements. These diverse and messy, but highly personalized, data can be analyzed to draw powerful inferences about an individual, and for that individual. Use of applications that are fueled by these traces could enhance, and even transform, our experiences as patients, students, family members, and consumers, generally. This talk will discuss precedents for small data in mobile health, and the opportunities and challenges of broadening the scope of small data capture, storage, and use.

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public