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Crossroads the ACM Magazine for Students WINTER 2014 VOL.21 • NO.2 XRDS.ACM.ORG XRDSCrossroads The ACM Magazine for Students WINTER 2014 VOL.21 • NO.2 XRDS.ACM.ORG Health Informatics The Anatomy of a Human Disease Network Did I Take My Meds Today? Challenges in Personal Health Tracking ACM’s Career & Job Center Are you looking for your next IT job? Do you need Career Advice? The ACM Career & Job Center offers ACM members a host of career-enhancing benefits: • A highly targeted focus on job • Job Alert system that notifies you of opportunities in the computing industry new opportunities matching your criteria • Access to hundreds of industry job postings • Career coaching and guidance available from trained experts dedicated to your • Resume posting keeping you connected success to the employment market while letting you maintain full control over your confidential • Free access to a content library of the best information career articles compiled from hundreds of sources, and much more! Visit ACM’s Career & Job Center at: http://jobs.acm.org The ACM Career & Job Center is the perfect place to begin searching for your next employment opportunity! Visit today at http://jobs.acm.org ACM_printadv1_final.indd 1 11/21/13 11:36 PM Inviting Young Scientists Meet Great Minds in Computer Science and Mathematics As one of the founding organizations of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum http:// www.heidelberg-laureate-forum.org/, ACM invites young computer science and mathematics researchers to meet some of the preeminent scientists in their field. These may be the very pioneering researchers who sparked your passion for research in computer science and/or mathematics. These laureates include recipients of the ACM A.M. Turing Award, the Abel Prize, and the Fields Medal. The Heidelberg Laureate Forum is August 23–28, 2015 in Heidelberg, Germany. This week-long event features presentations, workshops, panel discussions, and social events focusing on scientific inspiration and exchange among laureates and young scientists. Who can participate? 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Kreutzer (2) ACM_HLF_ad-2014_v4.indd 1 10/1/14 1:41 PM Crossroads The ACM Magazine for Students WINTER 2014 VOL.21 • NO.2 12 begin 5 LETTER FROM THE EDITORS 7 INBOX 8 INIT HEALTH 2.0: The Digital Health Revolution By Diana Lynn MacLean 9 ADVICE The Essentials of a Computer Scientist’s Toolkit By Numair Khan 10 UPDATES Staying In Touch By Claudia Schulz 11 MILESTONES Vital Technology By Jay Patel 12 CAREERS An Antidote to Impostor Syndrome By Dean Jackson and Taliver Heath 14 BLOGS My $300 Home Cloud Server: A Story of Blood, Sweat, and eBay By Wolfgang Richter Image by Valentina Photo / Shutterstock.com 2 XRDS • WINTER 2014 • VOL.21 • NO.2 Health Informatics 23 44 62 features end 18 FEATURE 38 FEATURE 56 LABZ Gathering People to Gather Data Did I Take My Meds Today? The Regenstrief Global Health By Diana Lynn MacLean By Matthew L. Lee Informatics Group By Suranga Nath Kasthurirathne 23 FEATURE 44 FEATURE Opportunities of Social Media Seeing Is Believing 57 BACK in Health and Well-Being By Megan Monroe Radiography By Munmun De Choudhury By Finn Kuusisto 48 FEATURE 28 FEATURE Wearable Technologies: One step 58 HELLO WORLD Here Comes the #Engagement: closer to gait rehabilitation in The Anatomy of A serious health initiative made Parkinson’s patients a Human Disease Network trendy By Sinziana Mazilu By Marinka Zitnik By Fay Cobb Payton and and Gerhard Tröster KaMar Galloway 61 POINTERS 54 PROFILE 32 FEATURE Trevor van Mierlo: The Story 61 ACRONYMS Challenges in Personal Health of Building a Startup Tracking: The data isn’t enough in Health Informatics 62 EVENTS By Matthew Kay By Adrian Scoica˘ 64 BEMUSEMENT We would like to acknowledge former XRDS feature editor Virginie Lerays, who was not properly credited in the last issue. She worked alongside Daniel Bauer and Adrian Scoică on the Natural Language issue. 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