Walter De Brouwer

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 is an Entrepreneur in Residence with the Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge since 2004.[3]

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 (which he left in 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]

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 and xy.ai).

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.

In 1996, De Brouwer was one of the founders of PING, later sold to EUnet.[10] In 1999, sold his employment site, Jobscape[11] In 2008, De Brouwer set up OLPC Europe, the European branch of One Laptop per Child.[12][13]

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.

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]

De Brouwer stepped down from CEO of Scanadu in April 2016 and became the CEO and co-founder of artificial intelligence start-up doc.ai.[20] De Brouwer co-founded doc.ai, a company focused on decentralizing precision medicine with artificial intelligence.[21] Walter became the Chief Science Officer of Doc.ai and Sam Lounis, his spouse, became CEO. Doc.ai was in Forbes because the company received a $100m contract from Anthem, the second-largest insurer in USA.[22]

Walter is now the CEO of the Harvard-spinoff XY.ai which has built the global pandemic satellite system [23] [[[24]]]

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 and curator of TEDxBrussels. 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, 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

• "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.