In this episode, Jason flies solo and announces his new position as founding Chair of the Department of Computational Biomedicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is joined by Dr. Kevin Johnson from Vanderbilt University to discuss the advantages and disadvantages of changing institutions. News and items of interest are covered. Dr. John Holmes provides the second part of his history segment on expert systems. Jason talks about learning statistics in the training segment.
Here is the announcement of Jason’s new position at Cedars-Sinai
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BBC piece on the video game turning 50
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NLM scientific director position
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