The Merger Of Human Technology With Human Intelligence Case Study
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As Ray Kurzweil describes in his book “The Singularity is Near”, we are on the verge of entering into ‘Epoch 5’ – The Merger of Human Technology with Human Intelligence. Imagine a day when it will be possible to scan the brain from the inside using nanobots! In the decades ahead, I foresee computer science being used to create new breakthroughs in all realms of science and technology. For instance, using advanced software for mining vast amounts of data being collected today, hidden trends and patterns can emerge. Such applications of machine learning can help chemists, biologists, and economists solve many difficult problems. I feel excited about the idea of merging technology with …show more content…
A college project that fueled my interest in analytics was developing a ‘Stock Market Analyzer’. I scraped the historical data of the stock market from Yahoo! Finance, and programmed an algorithm that helped in analysis and prediction of share prices. In my junior year, I researched on 'Graph Databases'. We compared the processing time of a NoSQL graph database, called Neo4j, with MySQL on a connected dataset. Since then, I have been engrossed in the emerging NoSQL technology which is used for effective storage and retrieval of petabytes of …show more content…
In a densely populated country like India, there are over 7 million medication errors recorded every year causing massive damages to the entire healthcare system, ranging from a wrong pill to a wrong amputation. An intelligent information system that can store, prescribe, and recommend the correct medicines for individuals based on their records (like allergy to certain medicines, etc.) would tremendously help millions of people. However, when I initiated research on the application, I realized that I was short on resources and needed to gain more experience and exposure. I want to make sure that the company I am building is around for the long term. To achieve my goal, I decided to pursue a master’s
As Ray Kurzweil describes in his book “The Singularity is Near”, we are on the verge of entering into ‘Epoch 5’ – The Merger of Human Technology with Human Intelligence. Imagine a day when it will be possible to scan the brain from the inside using nanobots! In the decades ahead, I foresee computer science being used to create new breakthroughs in all realms of science and technology. For instance, using advanced software for mining vast amounts of data being collected today, hidden trends and patterns can emerge. Such applications of machine learning can help chemists, biologists, and economists solve many difficult problems. I feel excited about the idea of merging technology with …show more content…
A college project that fueled my interest in analytics was developing a ‘Stock Market Analyzer’. I scraped the historical data of the stock market from Yahoo! Finance, and programmed an algorithm that helped in analysis and prediction of share prices. In my junior year, I researched on 'Graph Databases'. We compared the processing time of a NoSQL graph database, called Neo4j, with MySQL on a connected dataset. Since then, I have been engrossed in the emerging NoSQL technology which is used for effective storage and retrieval of petabytes of …show more content…
In a densely populated country like India, there are over 7 million medication errors recorded every year causing massive damages to the entire healthcare system, ranging from a wrong pill to a wrong amputation. An intelligent information system that can store, prescribe, and recommend the correct medicines for individuals based on their records (like allergy to certain medicines, etc.) would tremendously help millions of people. However, when I initiated research on the application, I realized that I was short on resources and needed to gain more experience and exposure. I want to make sure that the company I am building is around for the long term. To achieve my goal, I decided to pursue a master’s