The EMOD program launched its second release of their malaria modeling software last week, just before convening its first annual EMOD Modeling Malaria Symposium. The first version of their software launched in September 2012 and focused on modeling the spread of malaria and the potential impacts of health policies and intervention strategies. The EMOD v1.5 [...]
Basil Bayati, a member of our Epidemiological Modeling team, recently published a paper in the Journal of Chemical Physics. The paper — Fractional diffusion-reaction stochastic simulations — details our work with stochastic simulations of reaction-diffusion processes for modeling physical phenomena. The underlying spatial process of physical phenomena, including epidemiological processes, is often assumed to be [...]
Recently, our Epidemiological Modeling team published a paper in the American Physical Society’s Physical Review E: statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics journal. The paper — Influence of High-order Nonlinear Fluctuations in the Multivariate Susceptible-infectious-recovered Master Equation — details our work with the susecptible-infectious-recovered epidemiological model, which is the canonical model for the propagation of [...]
The goal of Epidemiological Modeling (EMOD) program at Intellectual Ventures Lab is to determine the combination of health policies and intervention strategies that can lead to disease eradication. The EMOD team creates disease modeling and data analysis tools to help researchers and policy makers understand diseases, their causes, the way they spread, and the path [...]
The epidemiological team (EMOD) at IV Lab has had a banner of a few weeks. They are putting the final touches on their malaria modeling software and Philip Eckhoff, Principal Investigator, recently had a new paper published in the peer-reviewed open access journal PLOS One. The paper - P. falciparum Infection Durations and Infectiousness Are Shaped by [...]
It’s one thing to have a powerful supercomputer cluster, it’s quite another thing to use it at its full potential. For anyone who has ever chopped wood, you know that slight changes in one’s stance or grip can dramatically increase the amount force the axe can delivered. Similarly, when dealing with a multi-core computer.
On Saturday, November 20th, the air temperature at the SeaTac airport started to steadily decrease. Around 1pm, at a time when it typically reaches its daily maximum, the outside temperature dropped below the seasonal daily minimum of 39 deg. F. Snow forming within clouds will melt before it reaches the ground unless surface air temperature [...]
For those of us who were unable to attend the TED conference back in February (my couch cushions just couldn’t quite turn up the $6,000 price of admission), we are in luck! Today, Nathan Myhrvold’s talk was released for the world to see. Check out our founder highlighting several of our malaria projects, along with [...]
Why We Work on Solutions for the Prevention, Detection and Eradication of Malaria Why are you inventing in this area? Humanity faces significant global health challenges that have been difficult to solve through traditional methods. Our hope is that through inventive thinking, we can find new ways to tackle some of these issues. With regard [...]
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