As AI evolves, the battle for control begins in court
By MICHAEL H. SAHN // In a haunting scene from 1968’s iconic “2001: A Space Odyssey,” sentient computer HAL 9000 turns off two astronauts’ life-support systems so it can assume…
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Marcum-Hofstra CEOs suddenly feel a little better
By GREGORY ZELLER // Inflation? Recessions? You worry too much, according to middle-market CEOs, who are suddenly feeling better about the national business climate. So says the latest CEO Survey…
For expectant (and new) moms, bots to be thankful for
By GREGORY ZELLER // Good news, expectant women of Long Island: Artificially intelligent “pregnancy chatbots” are now taking appointments. To be clear, the intelligence is legit: The Northwell Health Pregnancy…
At CSHL, the brains (and the funding) of the operation
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone of Long Island’s world-class scientific foundation has broken ground on an evolutionary leap in neuroscience research. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory stuck ceremonial shovels in…
Feinstein’s $6.7M award maps road to vagus riches
By GREGORY ZELLER // The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research has begun an ambitious mapping mission that may chart the course to the human race’s healthiest future. A $6.7 million…
Northwell startup stakes $100M for health tech, equity
By GREGORY ZELLER // Northwell Health has added another economic-development engine to its impressive collection. Already busily commercializing research and generating early-stage enterprises through its Northwell Ventures and Northwell Holdings…
Major investors back forward-looking ‘neural interface’
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cutting-edge California company’s mind-over-matter brain/computer interface device has caught Northwell Health’s attention. Santa Barbara-based startup Cognixion has announced a $12 million seed-funding round led by…
In real-time health platform, a billion points of data
By GREGORY ZELLER // New York’s largest healthcare provider is contributing to a national program that will save lives with digital data. Billed as “the world’s first health system-led data…
Northwell, Aegis share intelligence in new AI venture
By TERRY LYNAM // Most industry observers agree that artificial intelligence has unimaginable potential to revolutionize medical care – but making AI work in an incredibly complex real-world environment is…
Marking a half-century of medical invention, with style
By GREGORY ZELLER // Fifty years later, not much has changed for medical-product consultancy MIDI Product Development – except its ever-evolving technological capabilities, its larger role in the client’s commercialization…
NSF backs SBU’s quest for AI-controlled power grid
By GREGORY ZELLER // Handing control of the national power grid over to artificial intelligence? What could possibly go wrong? Remain calm, humans. What sounds like the opening of every…
Machine learning shines in weather-forecasting study
By GREGORY ZELLER // Jokes about the weatherman’s predictive powers will be harder to land, if artificial intelligence takes over the long-range forecasting. That’s according to a new scientific study…
Debating the ethics of AI (before it’s too late)
By JOHN MAGLIOCCO JR. // With highly sophisticated algorithms and rapid advancements in storing, processing and analyzing data, artificial intelligence is making its presence known in the world today. With…
A simple code for collegians: programming for all
By MATTHEW WRIGHT // Has higher education gone soft on coding? Isolated in our computer science departments, it’s not reaching the wider student audience I believe it should. At Adelphi…
At new SBU hub, artificial intelligence is the real deal
By GREGORY ZELLER // A cornerstone of Long Island’s innovation economy has partnered with a New York City-based technology icon to launch a new hub for regional AI research. Stony…