Dr Umar Saif, Faculty, Department of Computer Scienceat LUMS developed an early epidemic detection system which has been featured in the MIT Technology Review. This detection system was used to coordinate the colossal Dengue prevention efforts by Government of Punjab.The system used hundreds of android phones, logged 38718 prevention activities by several Government of Punjab departments (notably Department of Health and CDGL) over a period of** 5 months **and accurately tracked both Aedes larvea clusters and confirmed patients.Dr. Saif and his team also developed FluBreaks, another detection system that uses Google Flu trends data for early epidemic detection.
“This may be a little slow given the amount of data it has to fetch and the load on our servers after making the system public. The tab ‘early epidemic detection system’ will take you to our statistical prediction system, dragging the slider at the bottom will show you early warnings generated by our system (Sept-Oct) based on the data from confirmed dengue patients (also shown in tab ‘larvae clusters and patients’), ” he said.
Re: Tracking Dengue Fever in Pakistan : MIT Technology Review
^ fakhta sahab did you even read the whole thing? clicked the first and the last link in the opening post? i'm sure you know what MIT is, but do you know what LUMS is?
Re: Tracking Dengue Fever in Pakistan : MIT Technology Review
^ fakhta sahab did you even read the whole thing? clicked the first and the last link in the opening post? i'm sure you know what MIT is, but do you know what LUMS is?
true, i did NOT read...yes, i do know about MIT but don't know anything about LUMS...i do NOT even know what the letters stand for...pardon me for my ignorance.
it was kinda joke because recently we heard so much about water replacing gasoline.
Re: Tracking Dengue Fever in Pakistan : MIT Technology Review
^ no worries bro, i meant to say that there is almost 0% chance of it falling under that "water car kit" category
ok thanx bro...what does LUMS stand for?
