Parsimonious information technologies for pixels, perception, wetware and simulation
Alan H. Barr · 2010
New types of "engaging" embedded systems and devices will greatly assist future medical care, as for Petrasek's envisioned Global Virtual Hospital System. The most effective devices will need to be designed in a "parsimonious" way for their economic use of energy, digital bits, communication time, and in terms of trading more expensive physical structures for less expensive computational ones. At the technological level, each device needs a carefully selected "matched set" of technological tradeoffs between the particular medical and user ends and means. The matched set of choices would carefully make sure that the device "methods" and implementations lead reliably to the device "goals" and purposes.