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Hacking Health in Hamilton Ontario - Let's hear that pitch!
What compelled me to register for a weekend Health Hackathon? Anyway, I could soon be up to my ears in it. A pubmed search on Health Hack...
Sunday, October 8, 2017
Friday, October 6, 2017
Algonquian birchbark canoe building
Robert Twigger shared a video on his Facebook page about how Indian peoples (in this case Algonquian peoples) built birchbark canoes. The video is really old (1947) but that's what makes it so special.
Robert has written several absolutely awesome real life explorer/adventure books. My favourite so far has been Angry White Pyjamas, because he writes about several Aikido masters that I also had the privilege to study with! Another of the most incredible tales was Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe. Leave it to a Brit do so something so audaciously Canadian!
Canoe trips have always been in my blood since I was a child. The romance of the "coureur du bois" or "voyageurs" was part of our elementary school Canadian history curriculum and I read books about Radisson and Grosseillers. Because our house was on the edge of a large forest we used to practice running through the woods as fast as we could, jumping or climbing over fallen trees.
I learned how to canoe fairly early in life at the Northern Ontario cottage our family owned. In those days the lakes were more pristine and on short canoe trips we could put a detoxifying pill in our boiled lake water to make it potable for cereal, dried foods and tea. I later learned expert skills on how to travel on longer canoe trips at YMCA summer camp. In my early and middle teens I made several 2 week canoe trips into Northern lakes near Algonquian park with a friend. These trips involved carrying our own food, boiling our own lake water, portaging and camping in off the beaten track lake areas. With only that small experience, I can fully appreciate the astounding birchbark canoe trek Robert Twigger made across the far north of Canada.
Later in life I was living north of Ottawa on the way to the traditional Algonquian hunting and fishing territory near Maniwaki Quebec - very much I suspect where this video was filmed. I visited reserves and heard teachings from their elders - some of whom carried on this same tradition of birchbark canoe making. This old video features those same peoples, albeit it is 1947 or something like that. The singing at the beginning is French Canadian but I think it is has Algonquian language in it as well - not sure. I bought a few books about building birchbark canoes written by some local apprentices - David Gidmark - Birchbark Canoe: Living Among the Algonquians.
Watching this video is amazing. The skill and knowledge required to build these splendid crafts is truly awesome!
Robert has written several absolutely awesome real life explorer/adventure books. My favourite so far has been Angry White Pyjamas, because he writes about several Aikido masters that I also had the privilege to study with! Another of the most incredible tales was Voyageur: Across the Rocky Mountains in a Birchbark Canoe. Leave it to a Brit do so something so audaciously Canadian!
Canoe trips have always been in my blood since I was a child. The romance of the "coureur du bois" or "voyageurs" was part of our elementary school Canadian history curriculum and I read books about Radisson and Grosseillers. Because our house was on the edge of a large forest we used to practice running through the woods as fast as we could, jumping or climbing over fallen trees.
I learned how to canoe fairly early in life at the Northern Ontario cottage our family owned. In those days the lakes were more pristine and on short canoe trips we could put a detoxifying pill in our boiled lake water to make it potable for cereal, dried foods and tea. I later learned expert skills on how to travel on longer canoe trips at YMCA summer camp. In my early and middle teens I made several 2 week canoe trips into Northern lakes near Algonquian park with a friend. These trips involved carrying our own food, boiling our own lake water, portaging and camping in off the beaten track lake areas. With only that small experience, I can fully appreciate the astounding birchbark canoe trek Robert Twigger made across the far north of Canada.
Later in life I was living north of Ottawa on the way to the traditional Algonquian hunting and fishing territory near Maniwaki Quebec - very much I suspect where this video was filmed. I visited reserves and heard teachings from their elders - some of whom carried on this same tradition of birchbark canoe making. This old video features those same peoples, albeit it is 1947 or something like that. The singing at the beginning is French Canadian but I think it is has Algonquian language in it as well - not sure. I bought a few books about building birchbark canoes written by some local apprentices - David Gidmark - Birchbark Canoe: Living Among the Algonquians.
Watching this video is amazing. The skill and knowledge required to build these splendid crafts is truly awesome!
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
Blockchain & eHealth: Towards Provable Privacy & Security in Data intensive Health Research
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
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The First Workshop on "Blockchain & eHealth: Towards Provable Privacy & Security in Data intensive Health Research" will be held on:
November 7, 2017, Markham (Greater Toronto area), Ontario
https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/workshop.jsp
The workshop is co-located with CASCON 2017: The Cognitive Era: Data, Systems and Society conference
https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/
The registration for the conference and its workshops is free.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together security, privacy and eHealth experts from academia, healthcare institutions, industry and public policy to focus on the challenges and opportunities of developing a blockchain enabled infrastructure that promotes trust between different stakeholders in health research and enables a provable privacy-aware path to real time access to patients data.
We invite interested researchers to submit an abstract (limit of 500 words) reporting the state of their research relevant to the workshop objectives. Accepted abstract submissions will be invited to present in the workshop. Both research and application papers are solicited. The submitted abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. We particularly encourage PhD students in the early stage of their research on blockchain and R&D managers who are planning the application of blockchain technology to submit an abstract to this workshop.
Topics of this workshop include (but not limited to) the following:
• Decentralized platforms for health information exchange
• Public vs. private Blockchain for health research
• Access control, anonymity and privacy issues among blockchain participants
• Blockchain scalability issues and its solutions
• Blockchain threat models, attacks, defenses and countermeasures
• Network forensics in Blockchain
• Blockchain trust verification models
• Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of using blockchain in health research
• Case studies (for adoption, attacks, etc.)
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
- Reza Samavi, Department of Computing and Software, eHealth Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Thomas Doyle, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, eHealth Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Thodoros Topaloglou, Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, Toronto, Canada
DEADLINES:
- Oct. 23, 2017 Submission Deadline
- Oct. 30, 2017 Acceptance Notification
- Nov. 7, 2017 Presentation
SUBMISSION:
Please send your submissions, inquiries and correspondence on this workshop to (email to: samavir@mcmaster.ca) with the subject starting with "Workshop on Blockchain & eHealth:"
------------------
The First Workshop on "Blockchain & eHealth: Towards Provable Privacy & Security in Data intensive Health Research" will be held on:
November 7, 2017, Markham (Greater Toronto area), Ontario
https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/workshop.jsp
The workshop is co-located with CASCON 2017: The Cognitive Era: Data, Systems and Society conference
https://www-01.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/
The registration for the conference and its workshops is free.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together security, privacy and eHealth experts from academia, healthcare institutions, industry and public policy to focus on the challenges and opportunities of developing a blockchain enabled infrastructure that promotes trust between different stakeholders in health research and enables a provable privacy-aware path to real time access to patients data.
We invite interested researchers to submit an abstract (limit of 500 words) reporting the state of their research relevant to the workshop objectives. Accepted abstract submissions will be invited to present in the workshop. Both research and application papers are solicited. The submitted abstracts will be reviewed on the basis of technical quality, relevance, significance and clarity. We particularly encourage PhD students in the early stage of their research on blockchain and R&D managers who are planning the application of blockchain technology to submit an abstract to this workshop.
Topics of this workshop include (but not limited to) the following:
• Decentralized platforms for health information exchange
• Public vs. private Blockchain for health research
• Access control, anonymity and privacy issues among blockchain participants
• Blockchain scalability issues and its solutions
• Blockchain threat models, attacks, defenses and countermeasures
• Network forensics in Blockchain
• Blockchain trust verification models
• Legal, ethical, and societal aspects of using blockchain in health research
• Case studies (for adoption, attacks, etc.)
WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
- Reza Samavi, Department of Computing and Software, eHealth Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Thomas Doyle, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, eHealth Program, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada
- Thodoros Topaloglou, Scarborough and Rouge Hospital, Toronto, Canada
DEADLINES:
- Oct. 23, 2017 Submission Deadline
- Oct. 30, 2017 Acceptance Notification
- Nov. 7, 2017 Presentation
SUBMISSION:
Please send your submissions, inquiries and correspondence on this workshop to (email to: samavir@mcmaster.ca) with the subject starting with "Workshop on Blockchain & eHealth:"
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