Health and data: can digital fitness monitors revolutionise our lives? – The Guardian
From granular microchips to voice analysis, health-tracking technology offers medical benefits but doubt persist about the quality and security of data gathered
Larry Smarr is the poster boy for wearable devices and the quantified self – The Sydney Morning Herald
May 10, 2015 Smarr, an astrophysicist and computer scientist, could be the world’s most self-measured man. For nearly 15 years, the professor at the University of California at San Diego has been obsessed with what he describes as the most complicated subject he has ever experimented on: his own body. Link to Article
The Revolution Will Be Digitized – Washington Post
Spearheaded by the flood of wearable devices, a movement to quantify consumers’ lifestyles is evolving into big business with immense health and privacy ramifications.
The Excrement Experiment – The New Yorker
But it was an inadvertent discovery in a stool analysis that led to Smarr's Crohn’s diagnosis and, eventually, to a new calling: as an evangelist for an impending medical revolution, “quantified health.”
UC San Diego Achieves a Hat Trick with 2014 HPCwire Awards – JSOE News
The San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, has achieved a hat trick in garnering three awards for its university-wide WIFIRE project as part of the annual HPCwire Readers’ and Editors’ Choice Awards presented at the 2014 International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14), in New Orleans, Louisiana.