May 2020

Aiming for a Moonshot: A Conversation with Dr. Joe Alexander

In May, NTT Research announced that Joe Alexander, M.D., Ph.D., had joined its Medical and Health Informatics (MEI) Lab as a Distinguished Scientist. Dr. Alexander, who is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, joined NTT Research after more than two decades in the pharmaceutical industry. He had previously spent eight years at

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Business Insider: Japanese tech giant NTT is making a $230 million bet on upending healthcare with ‘digital twins,’ an exact virtual replica of a person that can be used with AI to explore new treatments without risking the patient

In a high-budget, longterm, futuristic project almost unimaginable in the COVID-19 recessionera, Japanese tech giant NTT has announced new labs in Silicon Valley where it will build hyper-realistic digital twins… https://ntt-research.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/85491-OP-L-1.pdf

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Journal of Cyber Policy: RETHINKING THE BIG COMPANY RESEARCH FALLACY

The current practice of using venture funding to conduct technology Research and Development (R&D) is so pervasive and powerful that it leads us to assume that big companies cannot develop successful new technologies. Rather, they’re so slow and bureaucratic that’s it’s preferable for them… https://journalofcyberpolicy.com/2020/05/22/rethinking-big-company-research-fallacy/

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Cointelegraph: Blockchain Interoperability: The Holy Grail for Cross-Chain Deployment

Even though cross-chain systems are gaining more attention, experts believe it will take some time for this technology to evolve and mature As per a detailed report released by accounting giant Deloitte at the World Economic Forum on the subject of blockchain interoperability, this fast-evolving… https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-interoperability-the-holy-grail-for-cross-chain-deployment

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NTT Research Names Joe Alexander Distinguished Scientist in its MEI Lab

Expert in biotech, life sciences, cardiovascular dynamics, modeling and simulation to lead bio digital twin initiative; Dr. Hoeteck Wee joins CIS Lab Palo Alto, Calif. – May 21, 2020 – NTT Research, Inc., a division of NTT (TYO:9432), today announced that it has named Joe Alexander, M.D., Ph.D., as Distinguished Scientist in its Medical and Health Informatics (MEI)

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Looking Back and Moving Forward – Why ‘Upgrade Reality’ is Much More Than the Title of Our New Short Film

When I joined NTT Research as president and CEO last summer, I didn’t expect to be getting into the movie business. After all, we set up operations in Silicon Valley, not Hollywood. But a few months after we got started, our team knew we were going to need some help in explaining our mission to

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A Q&A with UCLA Professor of Computer Science Amit Sahai

The International Association for Cryptologic Research has awarded a “Test of Time” award to a paper co-authored in 2005 by Brent Waters, currently an NTT Research Distinguished Scientist, and Dr. Amit Sahai, professor of computer science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. Titled “Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption,” this paper introduced attribute-based encryption, a departure from

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