Why, What, and How to Log? Lessons from LISTEN

Aging, Pensions and Long-term Care: What, Why, Who, How?; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

Japan has been aging faster than other industrialized nations, and its experience offers useful lessons to others. Japan has been willing to expand its welfare state with a long-term care (LTC) insurance to finance home care and nursing home care for frail elderly. As Ikegami shows, it created new facilities and expanded specialized staffing for home care, developed a c...

Lessons from Project LISTEN: What Have We Learned from a Reading Tutor That Listens?

For 20+ years, Project LISTEN (www.cs.cmu.edu/~listen) has made computers listen to children read aloud, and help them learn to read. Along the way we have learned lessons about children, reading, speech technology, intelligent tutors, educational data mining, and doing AIED research in schools. 1 Some of the Research Questions Project LISTEN Has Studied Nobel laureate Herbert Simon’s annual ta...

The Why, Who, What, How, and When of Patient Engagement in Healthcare Organizations: A Response to Recent Commentaries

History in a Crisis — Lessons for Covid-19

Writing in the heady days of new antibiotics and immunizations, esteemed microbiologists Macfarlane Burnet and David White predicted in 1972 that “the most likely forecast about the future of infectious diseases is that it will be very dull.” When asked to explain past events, historians are quick to assert the importance of context. If you want to understand how or why something happened, you ...

I-20: ART - Children How Are They Doing Lessons from Research

Worldwide there are over 4,000,000 ART conceived individuals. As fertility rates ‘fall’ in some countries use of ART is increasing with rates of 1.8% of live births in the UK, 4.4% in Denmark etc. Although still the single largest threat to future ART born children is being born twin, triplet or more, other research shows that there is good grounds for monitoring of the health of these children...