Walter De Brouwer
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Nationality | Belgian, |
Alma mater | Ghent University (BA Philology; MA Formal Linguistics; postgraduate Epistemology; Tilburg University (PhD Semiotics) |
Occupation | Entrepreneur located at Los Altos Hill, CA. |
Known for | Personal Computer Magazine, Wave, Eunet (now CenturyLink), Jobscape (now Stepstone), Starlab, OLPC, Scanadu Inc, doc.ai Inc. |
Title | Serial entrepreneur, CEO, founder, doc.ai Inc. |
Spouse(s) | Sam Lounis - De Brouwer |
Children | 2 sons, 1 daughter |
Website | doc |
Walter De Brouwer ([də ˈbrʌuər]; born May 9, 1957) is a Belgian-born Internet and technology serial entrepreneur and semiotician. He is CEO of XY.ai and cofounder and former CEO[1] of doc.ai and of Scanadu in Mountain View, California.
Private life and studies[]
De Brouwer, born in Aalst, Belgium, is now an American citizen. He earned a Masters degree in linguistics from the University of Ghent and a PhD in Semiotics from Tilburg University.[2] He was a fellow of the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge from 2004 until 2010.[3]
Teaching and board memberships[]
He was a lecturer at the University of Antwerp (UFSIA) and faculty professor at the University of Monaco. He is an adjunct professor at Stanford University Medical school (the Clinical Excellence Research Center).[4]
He was on the editorial advisory board of the Journal for Chinese Entrepreneurship.[5] De Brouwer is a member of the American Mathematical Society.
Former member of the Tau Zero Foundation (until 2013). He is now co-chairing the IEEE committee on Decentralized Clinical Trials.[6] and a member of the board of Linux Foundation Public Health together with IBM, CISCO, Tencent, VMWare[7]
Serial entrepreneur[]
Walter founded many enterprises in different fields: he was a publisher, an internet-guru, founded research labs, founded Scanadu and is now founding and managing companies in the field of mobile telecom and artificial intelligence (doc.ai, h and xy.ai).
Publisher[]
De Brouwer set up Riverland Publications in 1990 to publish personal computer magazines.[8] In 1994, he sold his titles to VNU. He then published the cyberpunk magazine Wave, edited by Michel Bauwens and designed by Niels Shoe Meulman. Wave was a cult Belgian avant garde magazine.[9] The only things he publish nowadays are blogposts and patents.
Internet[]
In 1996, De Brouwer was one of the founders of PING, EUnet.[10] In 1999, it was sold to Qwest Communications and is now part of CenturyLink. His employment site, Jobscape[11] In 2008, De Brouwer set up OLPC Europe, the European branch of One Laptop per Child.[12][13]
Research labs[]
In 1996, De Brouwer founded Starlab together with MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte[14][15][16] and coordinated its research activities under the acronym BANG (Bits, Atoms, Neurons and Genes), a system later adopted by MIT in 2002.
Scanadu[]
De Brouwer is co-founder and former CEO of Scanadu, a company located at the NASA Ames Research Park in California.[17] and Scanaflo, an at-home, full-panel urinalysis testing device designed to give consumers immediate information about their liver health, urinary tract infections, and other vitals.[18] Scanadu was taken over by healthy.io (in 2020)[19]
Doc.ai[]
De Brouwer stepped down from CEO of Scanadu in April 2016 and became the CEO and co-founder of doc.ai., a Silicon Valley-based company accelerating digital transformation in healthcare using edge computing and privacy-preserving infrastructure with the goal of unlocking the value of health data. The company licenses AI modules and creates products for a portfolio of clients, including payers, pharma, and providers.[20] He became the Chief Science Officer of Doc.ai and Sam Lounis, his spouse, became CEO. Doc.ai was featured in Forbes when the company received a $100m contract from Anthem, the second-largest insurer in USA.[21];a Silicon Valley-based company accelerating digital transformation in healthcare using edge computing and privacy-preserving infrastructure with the goal of unlocking the value of health data. The company licenses AI modules and creates products for a portfolio of clients, including payers, pharma, and providers.In 2021 doc.ai was selected by Fierce Healthcare as one of the Fierce.[22]
XY.ai[]
Walter is now the CEO of the Harvard-spinoff XY.ai which has built the global pandemic satellite system[23] [24] and is using machine intelligence to map health all over the planet.
Other activities[]
De Brouwer is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and served as President of RSA Europe from 2006 to 2008.[25] He is a member of TED. He was a distinguished lecturer at the National Science Foundation in 2013.
De Brouwer's articles have been published by VentureBeat,[26] The Huffington Post,[27] Techonomy,[28] and others. His article, “How the People Are Taking Over the World,” was among Techonomy's Most-Read Articles of 2014 and was cited by its editors as “perhaps the most philosophical of Techonomy’s top articles” that year.[29] De Brouwer held 13 European utility patents and 11 design patents that were sold to Philips in 2001 and are now expired. He was awarded 7 active patents and submitted another 22 provisional patents in the USA and 2 in China and Japan.
Bibliography[]
- De Brouwer, Walter. Notes & Queries: Mary Imlay, Analytical Review (Oxford, 1982), 29:204-206.
- De Brouwer, Walter. Notes & Queries: Joshua Toulmin, Analytical Review (Oxford, 1983), 30:209-212.
- De Brouwer, Walter; Ayris, Stephen (1985). Computer Buzz words : Teacher's guide. Wolters Leuven, ISBN 90-309-0815-7
- De Brouwer, Walter (1985). Cybercrud : computer terminology for advanced students of informatics and industrial engineering. Wolters Leuven, ISBN 90-309-0819-X
- Vanneste, Alex; Geens D, De Brouwer, Walter (1987). Het Nieuwe Landschap, Wolters Leuven, ISBN 90-309-0825-4
- De Brouwer, Walter (2004). Echelon: Three can keep a Secret, if Two of them are Dead. Delaware, ASIN B004J3UHGG
- De Brouwer, Walter (2004). The biology of language: the post-modern deconstruction and denarration of modern and pre-modern grand narratives. Universiteit van Tilburg, ISBN 978-90-810022-1-9
References[]
- ^ Bindi, Tas. "Doc.ai launches blockchain-based conversational AI platform for health consumers". ZDNet.
- ^ De Brouwer, Walter (2004). The biology of language: the post-modern deconstruction and denarration of modern and pre-modern grand narratives. Universiteit van Tilburg, ISBN 978-90-810022-1-9
- ^ He was until he left in 2011 for the USA, an entrepreneur in Residence Walter De Brouwer via the Judge Business School; nowadays called the University of Cambridge Business School,
- ^ "Walter De Brouwer's Profile | Stanford Profiles". profiles.stanford.edu.
- ^ "Journal for Chinese Entrepreneurship".
- ^ "Technology and Data Harmonization for Enabling Decentralized Clinical Trials". standards.ieee.org.
- ^ "Members". Linux Foundation Public Health.
- ^ BELGIUM Major Manufacturers Directory. Business Information Agency, ISBN 978-1-4187-8348-8
- ^ Wave, the Belgian cyberpunk mag at the Wayback Machine (archived March 28, 2012)
- ^ Schroller, Alex; King, Tim (January 4, 2010). Smart ways to improve innovation. European Voice
- ^ Schroller, Alex; King, Tim (January 4, 2010)to Stepstone and went IP0 in 1997. Smart ways to improve innovation. European Voice
- ^ Fildes, Jonathan (December 23, 2009). OLPC Unveils slimline tablet PC. BBC News
- ^ Hartley, Adam (May 1, 2010). How OLPC plans to give 30 million kids in Africa a laptop by 2015. TechRadar
- ^ Kalia, Kirin (August 9, 2000). Belgium: Europe's Overlooked Diamond-in-the-Rough (Part II). Silicon Alley Daily
- ^ Lane, Frederick S. (2003) The naked employee: how technology is compromising workplace privacy, p. 54. AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn, ISBN 978-0-8144-7149-4
- ^ Bilefsky, Dan (April 2, 2001). Where the deep future is familiar territory The Financial Times
- ^ Gorman, Michael (22 May 2013). "Scanadu finalizes Scout tricorder design, wants user feedback to help it get FDA approval". Engadget. Retrieved 31 January 2014.
- ^ Hein, Buster (6 January 2015). "Scanaflo brings hospital-quality urinalysis to your home". Cult of Mac. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ Farr, Christina (June 26, 2020). "Healthy.io, Israeli maker of smartphone urinalysis tech, buys its largest U.S. rival". CNBC.
- ^ Tas Bindi (August 24, 2017). "Doc.ai launches blockchain-based conversational AI platform for health consumers".
- ^ Jennings, Katie. "Startup Doc.ai Inks Deal With Health Insurer Anthem, Names Female Cofounder CEO". Forbes.
- ^ "FierceHealthcare's Fierce 15 of 2021". FierceHealthcare.
- ^ https://www.xy.ai/process/nature-genetics-paper-published-by-xy-scientists
- ^ "XY.ai: Using machine intelligence to map health from space". www.xy.ai.
- ^ "Chairman of RSA Europe Fellowship".
- ^ De Brouwer, Walter (3 February 2019). "Millennials may be the last generation to know so little about their health". VentureBeat.
- ^ De Brouwer, Walter (9 March 2014). "I. Am. The Greatest". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ De Brouwer, Walter (8 November 2014). "How the People Are Taking Over the World". Techonomy. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
- ^ "Techonomy's Most-Read Articles of 2014". Techonomy. 31 December 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
External links[]
- "I. Am. The Greatest" article by Walter De Brouwer.
- "How the People Are Taking Over the World" article by Walter De Brouwer.
- "Medical Devices Allow You to Check Vitals at Home" Wall Street Journal D Live Conference video interview.
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