國際學者Boyd Davis教授演講

國際學者Boyd Davis教授演講

11/1本系邀請國際知名學者Boyd Davis教授到系演講，主講題目為 「老齡化、癡呆症和醫療保健：為什麼科技比以往任何時候都更重要？」，Davis教授畢業於知名北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校博士，學術專長是話語中的敘事、語用和立場、社會歷史方法納入醫學話語、阿茲罕默氏症、壽命語言、在線話語和數字語音語料庫等等。原本是任教於UNC Charlotte研究大學應用語言學/英語系教授，後來研究多樣化，跨足老年學、傳播學，也在南卡羅來納醫科大學護理學系擔任兼職研究教授。本次演講對象為資管系以及資工系修習「智慧健康照護」課程之學生，她以台灣與國際間在健康照護之差別做一個簡單介紹，接著以物聯網、人工智慧、自然語言處理、照護機器人等現在科技在老人照護部分可能之應用做一個精彩演講，內容生動活潑且具有啟發性，雖然因為疫情嚴重以及Davis教授年事已高，採用線上演講方式，但是不減學生的收穫。

    透過來自國際及世界的觀點，學生充分了解智慧醫療照護目前是世界時代趨勢，身為未來資訊的尖兵，未來可以將大學所學之相關知識以及技術來開發智慧醫療系統，並且投入此未來之明星產業。

 Speech of International Scholar Professor Boyd Davis

The CSIE department in CJCU invited Professor Boyd Davis, an internationally renowned scholar, to give a lecture. The topic of the lecture was “Aging, dementia and healthcare: why technology is more important than ever?”.   Professor Davis graduated from the well-known University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Ph.D. Her academic expertise includes narrative in discourse, pragmatics and standpoints, social-historical methods incorporated into medical discourse, Alzheimer’s disease, life span language, online discourse, and digital voice corpus, etc.  She was originally a professor in the Applied Linguistics/English Department of UNC Charlotte Research University. Later, her research diversified, spanning gerontology and communication, and also served as an adjunct research professor in the Department of Nursing at the Medical University of South Carolina. The audiences of this lecture are students from the Department Management of Information System and Department of Computer Science & Information Engineering who are taking the "Smart Health Care" course.  Prof. Davis gave a brief introduction on the differences in health care between Taiwan and the other countries in the world, and then use the IoT, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, nursing robots and other current technologies in elderly care may be applied to give audiences a wonderful speech, the content is lively and enlightening.  Due to the serious epidemic and Professor Davis's advanced age, the online speech manner was used; however, the students' gains are not reduced.  Through international and global perspectives, students fully understand that smart medical care is currently the trend of the world.  As the pioneers of future information, in the future, they can use the relevant knowledge and technology learned in the university to develop smart medical systems and invest in this future star industry.