Korean startup develops handheld sonogram device for the mobile age

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is all the buzz in the public sphere thanks to the match between Google's AlphaGo and a Korean Go champion in Seoul earlier this month. But AI has long been the interest of computer engineers like Healcerion CEO and founder Benjamin Jeongwon Ryu, who has also been a lifelong tech entrepreneur involved in dozens of projects -- embedded systems, operating systems, email and digital signal processing in the venture scene -- in South Korea. Keen to do something in AI but feeling the need to learn more, Ryu, in the middle of a successful career as an entrepreneur spanning the 1990s and early 2000s, decided to get a medical doctorate following the advice of colleagues who suggested he study neurology and the human body. He got his degree and in 2011, while running his own firm in the afternoon, worked night shifts for two intense years in an emergency room. There he had the most harrowing experience.