Epidemics are caused by pathogens maintained in animal dna. Theyre difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola has a reservoir in egyptian fruit bats. How do you monitor in the environment the population of egyptian fruit bats and whether or not they have ebola . Its a very hard thing to do. So we imagine using a mosquito as a device because they bite all sorts of animals, taking little blood samples. They bite everything from animals from amphibians and reptiles all the way up to humans and chickens. Host so why would microsoft be working on a project like that . Guest well, when we think about Machine Learning, when we think about robotics, one of the things we want to understand is what how is it going to be useful. And disease epidemics are an example where we know getting the right data is incredibly challenging, analyzing the data is incredibly challenging, so we believe there are some important Inflection Points. Host all right. Walk us
Microsoft technology fair. Former president bill clinton talks about the opioid emepidemic. Hillary clinton rallies supporters at the home Rights Campaign and jeff bezos receives an award for his work fighting for samesex marriage. The the communicators visited several Technology Fairs this year. Heres one of two of them at microsofts washington, dc headquarters. My name is jackson, im a researcher at milwaukee research and work on project premonition which is using mosquitoes as devices to predict the next epidemic. 60 to 75 of caused by pathogens in animal populations. Very difficult to monitor because if you take ebola, for instance, its believed that ebola is from fruit flies. How do you monitor the population of egyptian fruit bats. The projection premonition imagines using a mosquito as a device. They bite all sorts of animals taking blood samples. There are 3600 known species of mosquitoes mosquitoes and they bite everything from reptiles couple humans and chickens. Why would mi