The Next Information Frontier: The Physical and Mental States of Users Anytime and in Their Natural Environments

On the order of $1 trillion of cost per year in the US alone goes unmanaged, under-managed, or mismanaged because the information on each individual’s states and behaviors everyday, all the time, in his or her natural environments is not available. This problem can be broken into two distinct pieces: first, how to get this new body information and second, how to reinvent wellness and health management by taking advantage of this new body information. This talk will focus on the first of these two pieces, presenting some general rules and insights about what is required to bridge the free-living body information gap. These rules will lead into some current methods for getting at these kinds of new body information, a vision of how these methods will evolve over the next five years, and some exciting implications for how the bridging of this body information gap can help to inform and even drive the coming revolution in wellness and health management and care.

Speaker Details

Dr. Astro Teller is the CEO of BodyMedia, Inc, the leading company in unobtrusive wearable wireless body monitors. Prior to founding BodyMedia in 1999, Dr. Teller was co-founder, chairman and CEO of Sandbox Advanced Development, an advanced development agency servicing large international product-focused corporations. Dr. Teller’s work has also included periods as a teacher at Stanford University, an algorithmic consultant at Phoenix Laser Technologies, a researcher at Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems, and a senior engineer at Carnegie Group Incorporated.Dr. Teller holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University and a Masters of Science in symbolic and heuristic computation, also from Stanford University. Dr. Teller completed his Ph.D. in artificial intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University where he was inducted as a national Hertz fellow.A seasoned inventor, scientist, and entrepreneur, Teller has successfully created and grown two new companies through a variety of economic climates. To date, he has raised six rounds of Angel Investment, Venture Capital and Private Equity financing totaling more than $23M. Astro currently holds four U.S. patent and numerous patent filings relating to BodyMedia’s sensors, hardware, and software technology.His first fiction novel, Exegesis, was published by Vintage Books in 1997 and has since been translated and published into numerous other languages. Dr. Teller’s work in science, literature, art, and business have appeared in international media from the New York Times to CNN to NPR’s “All Things Considered.” Astro has given invited talks for branches of the armed services, and at numerous national and international technology and business forums on the subject of computer science and the future of intelligent technology.

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Astro Teller
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BodyMedia, Inc.