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Data Saves Lives - By Mario Romao, Director, Health and Data Policy At the 2nd European Alliance for Personalised Medicine (EAPM) Congress, held in Milan 26-28 November I had the pleasure to speak at a session on health data sharing. Whilst doctors are the ones saving lives, data - and the information thereof – are the building blocks of...
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Reflections on the Impact of AI on the Workforce - By Mario Romao, Director, Health and Data Policy During the “Towards a good AI society” Summit that was held on November 6-7 at the European Parliament in Brussels, I had the pleasure to sit on a panel under the theme “Workforce and the Digital Industry”. The objective was to discuss the potential impact of AI on...
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Intel Solicits Feedback on U.S. Privacy Law Proposal - By: David A. Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer Intel is experimenting with a new approach to participatory democracy. We have created a website on which we have posted our recommended draft for a comprehensive U.S. privacy law. The website has a portion where privacy law experts are providing feedback on the draft,...
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Intel Lays Out Vision on Artificial Intelligence in Europe - By Mario Romao, Director EU Data Policy On 18 October in Brussels, Stéphane Negre, President of Intel France, gave a keynote interview at Forum Europe’s Artificial Intelligence Conference. Moderated by Mr. Paul Adamson, Forum Europe’s Chairman, Stéphane Negre was joined by Mr Nikos Pappas, Minister of Digital Policy, Telecommunications and Media of Greece. Minister Pappas...
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Rethinking Privacy in the Age of AI - By David Hoffman, Associate General Counsel and Global Privacy Officer and Riccardo Masucci, Global Director of Privacy People are talking about AI’s enormous potential in life-enhancing and potentially life-saving technologies: precision medicine, disease detection, driving assistance, increased productivity, workplace safety, better access to education and more. At Intel we are developing many of these technologies,...
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Congress Recognizes Telehealth as Critical to Access Substance Abuse Treatment - By Jennifer Esposito, Intel’s Worldwide General Manager, Health and Life Sciences Group Right now, the President has the tremendous opportunity to sign into law the Support for Patients and Communities Act, a comprehensive approach to fighting the opioids epidemic that is hurting so many American families. Contained in the legislation is a recognition of the...
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Innovation in healthcare can revolutionize patient outcomes - By Mário Romão, Health and Data Policy at Intel The statistics are sobering. More than 1 in 3 men and women will be diagnosed with cancer at some point during their lifetimes. Efforts in science, medicine and public health have led to a decrease of the mortality rate in the US (1.8 percent and 1.4...
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Intel Participates in A Conversation about Ethical AI at the Brookings Institute - Last Friday, Intel’s Heather Patterson, PhD, a Senior Research Scientist in Intel Labs, participated in a panel dialogue hosted by the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institute. The conversation concerned ethical implications raised by artificial intelligence (AI), focusing on the roles and responsibilities of industry and government in ensuring the responsible design, development,...
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House Takes Important Step in U.S. Quantum Computing Initiative - By Jim Clarke, Director of Quantum Hardware at Intel Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Quantum Initiative Act (NQIA) with bipartisan support. This legislation will allocate funding for public research in the emerging area of Quantum Computing, which has the potential to help solve some of our nation’s greatest challenges through exponential increases...
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NITI Aayog, TIFR and Intel Establish International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence - By Derek Waxman, Director, Public Policy, Artificial Intelligence and Client Computing NITI Aayog, Intel and TIFR collaborate to set up a model International Center for Transformative Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) aiming to solve major challenges in...
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