Melbourne will get a Region, an enormous journey, and a mind mapping startup

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Melbourne will get a Region, an enormous journey, and a mind mapping startup


Melbourne skyline

Innovation is borderless. Great concepts (and naturally, nice engineering) aren’t sure by geography or the strains on a map. They can come from anyplace at any time. That’s why rolling out options and companies globally are crucial to us at AWS. We need builders, entrepreneurs, startups, and enterprises alike to all have entry to world-class cloud applied sciences no matter the place they’re situated. Today, I’m excited to announce the brand new AWS Asia Pacific (Melbourne) Region.

Melbourne is our first Region of the New Year, our second in Australia, and brings our whole depend to 31 Regions and 99 Availability Zones worldwide. It’s additionally the place I’m beginning my first huge journey of the 12 months (don’t fear Sydney, I’ll see you too). While down underneath, I will likely be giving a couple of talks. I’ve included registration data on the finish of this put up for these of you who’re .

Personalised maps of the human mind

One space of explicit curiosity to me is the intersection of healthcare and cloud companies. When we launched the AWS Europe (Spain) Region, I wrote briefly about HumanITcare. Here in Australia, I wish to give attention to Omniscient Neurotechnology (o8t). An organization that has constructed a mind mapping platform that has the potential to revolutionise neurosurgery, in addition to the best way that we diagnose and deal with neurological and psychological well being circumstances.

We have studied the human mind for hundreds of years. Its construction and chemistry. Hypothesized how totally different areas of the mind regulate cognition, motion, and language. But till pretty lately (see Human Connectome Project), we haven’t had the instruments or the compute energy to actually perceive how the mind and nervous system are linked and work together with one another to supply conduct and cognition (often known as Connectomics). Co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of Omniscient, Dr. Michael Sughrue, usually sums it up with a quote from Emerson Pugh, “If the brain were so simple that we could understand it, we’d be so simple that we couldn’t.”

Every mind is wired a bit in a different way and each mind scan produces greater than a billion information factors. It could be not possible, even for the neatest and most well-trained neurosurgeons and neuroscientists to research this quantity of knowledge. However, it’s a downside house that’s uniquely suited to computer systems. Using current mind imaging know-how, like MRIs, along with machine studying fashions and cloud companies like EC2 and Aurora, Omniscient can produce personalised mind maps for sufferers that not solely present how their mind is formed and structured, however the place connections are and the way they’re clustered.

Tractographic view of the brain

Today, surgeons are utilizing this know-how to diagnose, plan, and function on sufferers with extra precision. Researchers are utilizing this know-how to check remedies for despair, sleep problems, and different neurological circumstances. This is barely potential due to the cloud, and it’s a testomony to the truth that nothing, particularly not borders, can maintain again an awesome thought.

Some enjoyable with generative AI

While working by somewhat little bit of author’s block, I made a decision to make use of ChatGPT to assist me ideate on titles for this put up. I didn’t wind up utilizing any, however these have been intelligent.

A number of humorous methods to say "A visit to Australia" 

1. An Outback hootenanny
2. A Kangaroo-fari
3. A Wallaby Wander-lust
4. A Down Under jaunt
5. An Aussie Adventure 
6. A Sydney Safari 
7. A Kakadu Jamboree
8. A Great Barrier Breakaway 
9. A Crocodile Craze
10. A Koala Cruise

On the highway in Melbourne and Sydney

As I discussed at first of this put up, I’ve a couple of talking occasions lined up for my Aussie Adventure. In Melbourne, I will likely be talking about innovation at Amazon all through the years. In Sydney, I’ll cowl my tech predictions for 2023 and past. If , you need to use the hyperlinks beneath to register.

For these of you who can’t be part of me, I hope to share a few of the highlights from my journey over the course of the subsequent few weeks. As all the time — now, go construct!

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