Carl Clark

Preview: Why HIPPA Won't Save You - Protecting Data Privacy

The “Why HIPAA Won’t Save You – Protecting Data Privacy” panel discusses how medical privacy is a concern for the future of big data. Marc Monseau and three other experts in the health and data community will be discussing this pressing issue. Imagine a young woman and she is going on her usual run with her […]

Preview: The Way It Was, The Way It Is

Of all the space or NASA related events at SXSW Interactive, the one that promises to be the most interactive is the NASA meet up. The thing that makes this a must stop isn’t just the fact an astronaut will be there, it’s getting to mingle with everyone up and down the NASA mission pipeline. […]

Weekly News Roundup: March 1-7, 2015

  Dawn of the Harvest It only has taken us 214 years since Giuseppe Piazzi spotted the asteroid Ceres, but if everything goes correctly Friday, the Dawn space craft will enter in to orbit around Ceres. The space craft launched in 2007 and spent part of 2011 and 2012 around the asteroid Vista, a smaller […]

Preview: For Home and For the XPRIZE

“My motivation was to change the world.” Dr. Paul Bunje has studied the life in the planet’s great oceans for many years. He has also done work on arguably the greatest challenge of our time, the issue of climate change. Now at XPRIZE he is heading up the Wendy Schmidt Ocean Health Competition, geared towards […]

Preview: Our Focus Determines Our Reality

“When I was in college I would talk a lot about Mars.” When talking to Michael Solana about science fiction and human progress, it becomes quickly apparent that one article about his views on the future are simply not enough to cover everything. Fortunately, he is presenting Science Fiction IRL and Our Road Map to […]

Preview: Your Data, My Data, Everyone's Big Health Data

When talking with Dr. Chirag Patel it is easy to see how far computer technology has come. What he and many others are trying to do is pierce a veil of isolation. Patel’s panel, Your Life in Big Data: Drugs and the Environment, will cover that attempt. Despite our propensity for pattern recognition, it is […]

Preview: Moving Beyond Reality

Dr. Jason Jerald will be speaking at the panel Suspension of Disbelief in Virtual Reality at SXSWi. He will cover what is most interesting about virtual reality and augmented reality: its potential. Virtual reality is about transcending time and space by going other places and seeing and feeling other things that are wholly outside the […]