Welcome to The COOK Report on Internet Protocol

Map of our 21st century infrastructure territory

1. economic framework for thinking about technology
2. fiber as economic infrastructure
3. change from PSTN to all IP over fiber
4. business models- domestic and global
5. green IT, mobility, wireless
6. new carrier models
7. community fiber
8. enterprise fiber & NRENs

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how these topics relate

Transforming Medicine via CLEOS [Clinical Expert Operating System]

Through Standardized Digitization of Patient History and Treatment, Medical Care and Clinical Research Can Be Revolutionized

Davi Zakim, MD, envisions the creation of an expert system that integrates all medical knowledge into a patient centered interface, that will guide users medical care through tree branching diagnostic and treatment recommendations, and will compile data on outcomes via databases that fit into the world of the Fourth Paradigm of Data Intensive Scientific Discovery.

In the current climate that is dominated by finance, there will be many corporations that would like to privatize what David is doing.  Such would be, I believe, a disaster of the first order.  It is therefore fully in keeping with the 21st century world of the internet that he has established the Institute of Digital Medicine to act as legal owner and protector of the medical intellectual property and preserve it in an open knowledge commons.

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