Dental Diagnostics

The following is a description of a prospective application of Computer Intuition. In 1995, Professor Frederiksen published a paper entitled: Diagnostic Imaging in Dental Implantology in the scientific journal Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology, and Endodontology. At the time, Professor Frederiksen was regarded the world leading expert on the subject. To test the power of Computer Intuition, Professor Dov Almog and Professor Elliot Heisler from the University of Rochester devised the following test. Professors Almog and Heisler conducted a Medline search from 1980 to 1996 using relevant keywords. The search identified 34 papers.

The content of the papers were analyzed with Computer Intuition. The analysis identified three ideas. Two ideas were identical to the main conclusion in Frederiksen's paper. The third idea suggested a new technology, not to be found in Frederiksen's paper. The three ideas were published in 1996 by Professors Almog and Heisler in a paper entitled: Computer Intuition: Guiding Scientific Research in Imaging and Oral Implantology. The paper appeared in the Journal of Dental Research. (Reference 1)

How ingenious were the results? First, using Computer Intuition, Professors Almog and Heisler were able to duplicate the results by Professor Frederiksen, the world expert in the field, quickly and inexpensively. While it took Professor Frederiksen's decades to build his expertise, Professors Almog and Heisler became world experts on the subject within weeks.

Second, the Computer Intuition analysis proposed a new technology. How ingenious was this proposal? In 2006, Professor Almog, Professor Frederiksen, and four colleagues reviewed the academic and commercial practice of diagnostic imaging in oral implantology at the time. The review was published in the Journal of Oral Implantology. (Reference 2) In their review, the authors pointed to an interesting observation. Beginning in 2000, four years after the publication of the Computer Intuition study, "numerous companies from technology-transfer and commercial standpoint have introduced technology platforms that offer planning and guidance systems to facilitate dental implant placement procedures," the same exact technology proposed by the Computer Intuition analysis.

To conclude, if we define being a genius as being able to grasp the future before everybody else, than Computer Intuition turned Professor Almog and Professor Heisler into geniuses, not merely world experts, but geniuses. (Note that, by being a co-author of the 2006 paper, Frederiksen, the world expert himself, seems to hint that he agrees with this assessment.)