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The Company partners with Reified Capital, a provider of advanced artificial intelligence-focused technical advisory services to the private sector

Collaboration to focus on machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions for healthcare

Initial solutions to be centered on BioSigs core competencies in electrophysiology

BioSig Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSGM) (BioSig or the Company), a medical technology company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve signal fidelity and uncover the full range of ECG and intra-cardiac signals, today announced that the Company entered into a technical collaboration with Reified Capital, a provider of advanced artificial intelligence-focused technical advisory services to the private sector. Reified was co-founded by Dr. Alexander D. Wissner-Gross and Timothy M. Sullivan, the founders of Gemedy.

The new collaboration with Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Reified will focus on developing a foundational artificial intelligence platform on the basis of integrated healthcare datasets, beginning with ECG and EEG data acquired by BioSigs first product, PURE EP(tm) System - a novel real-time signal processing platform engineered to provide electrophysiologists with high fidelity cardiac signals. Electrophysiology focused technological solutions developed under the terms of this collaboration will be integrated into the PURE EP(tm) technology platform. Reified is led by Harvard- and MIT-trained computer scientist and physicist Dr. Wissner-Gross, an award-winning computer scientist, physicist, entrepreneur and author. Technical expertise that the Reified team is planning to bring to the project includes data analysis, algorithmic modeling and development.

Integration of AI can open new avenues for improved diagnosis and more effective therapy delivery for bioelectronic medicine in particular and healthcare in general. We are thrilled to partner with Alex and his outstanding team, and look forward to working with them on developing world-class artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions, which, we believe, will benefit a worldwide physician audience, commented Kenneth L Londoner, Chairman and CEO of BioSig Technologies, Inc.

The application of modern AI and machine learning techniques to electrophysiology presents one of the most promising healthcare opportunities of our time, said Dr. Wissner-Gross. We look forward to our forthcoming collaboration with BioSig Technologies.

On November 21, 2019 the Company announced that it commenced patient enrollment in its first clinical trial for the PURE EP(tm) System.

About Reified CapitalReified Capital, LLC is a provider of advanced artificial intelligence-focused technical advisory services to the private sector. Reifieds areas of expertise include machine learning, data analysis, modeling and simulation, cybersecurity, knowledge management, cyber-physical systems, and autonomous systems.

About BioSig TechnologiesBioSig Technologies is a medical technology company developing a proprietary biomedical signal processing platform designed to improve the electrophysiology (EP) marketplace (www.biosig.com). Led by a proven management team and a veteran Board of Directors, BioSig Technologies is preparing to commercialize its PURE EP(tm) System. The technology has been developed to address an unmet need in a large and growing market.The Companys first product, PURE EP(tm) System is a computerized system intended for acquiring, digitizing, amplifying, filtering, measuring and calculating, displaying, recording and storing of electrocardiographic and intracardiac signals for patients undergoing electrophysiology (EP) procedures in an EP laboratory. The system is indicated for use under the supervision of licensed healthcare practitioners who are responsible for interpreting the data. This novel cardiac signal acquisition and display system is engineered to assist electrophysiologists in clinical decision-making during electrophysiology procedures in patients with abnormal heart rates and rhythms. BioSigs ultimate goal is to deliver technology to improve upon catheter ablation treatments for the prevalent and potentially deadly arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation and Ventricular Tachycardia. BioSig has partnered with Minnetronix on technology development and received FDA 510(k) clearance for the PURE EP(tm) System in August 2018.

Forward-looking Statements This press release contains forward-looking statements. Such statements may be preceded by the words intends, may, will, plans, expects, anticipates, projects, predicts, estimates, aims, believes, hopes, potential or similar words. Forward- looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, are based on certain assumptions and are subject to various known and unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond the Companys control, and cannot be predicted or quantified and consequently, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, risks and uncertainties associated with (i) our inability to manufacture our products and product candidates on a commercial scale on our own, or in collaboration with third parties; (ii) difficulties in obtaining financing on commercially reasonable terms; (iii) changes in the size and nature of our competition; (iv) loss of one or more key executives or scientists; and (v) difficulties in securing regulatory approval to market our products and product candidates. More detailed information about the Company and the risk factors that may affect the realization of forward-looking statements is set forth in the Companys filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including the Companys Annual Report on Form 10-K and its Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Investors and security holders are urged to read these documents free of charge on the SECs website at http://www.sec.gov. The Company assumes no obligation to publicly update or revise its forward-looking statements as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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BioSig Technologies Announces New Collaboration on Development of Artificial Intelligence Solutions in Healthcare - GlobeNewswire

Machines are only set to get smarter as more applications of AI come to light. Research around AI has grown by seven-fold since 1996, according to a study by Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). Yet, India lags far behind.

We have one of the best technology talent pools in the world. If we fast-track and balance our progress on innovation, IP management, and entrepreneurship, we can realize the potential to become a global AI powerhouse, said Santosh Mohanty, the Global Head for Components Engineering Group at TCS.

It's hardly surprising since out of 22,000 PhD researchers around the world, only 386 are from India, according to the Global AI Talent Report 2018.

Lacking in laws

Until 2002, computer-related inventions were deemed ineligible for patents. Even though that has now changed, the existing laws pose their own challenges like being too ambiguous and vague.

For instance, an algorithm can't be patented until it has a practical application or use case even if it's solving a problem behind the scenes.

All of them, except for IBM, are focused on computer vision a form of machine perception that used deep learning to identify objects, videos, and images. IBM, on the other hand, is focused on natural language processing like chatbots.

Alphabet, Google's parent company, is second only to the Chinese tech giant Baidu in owning portfolios of patents related to deep learning.

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Just when you thought the Democratic presidential field couldnt get any more crowded, former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg has swooped in with a $37 million ad blitz.Ad Policy

His motives for intervening at this late hour are hardly mysterious. If he were focused on the vital issues he has championed, such as gun safety or climate change legislation, he could just spend those millions in support of the Democratic nominee and/or on helping to take back the Senate. The fact is Bloomberg disdains those on the left in the Democratic primaryand perhaps fears that none of the other moderates in the field can win. With the idea of a wealth tax backed by Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT)and strikingly popular among Democrats, independents and even many RepublicansBloomberg has billions of reasons to flex his financial muscle.

Its like clockwork. When progressives are gaining ground, the big-money wing of the Democratic Party often chooses to turn its fire on the leftas if progressives represented the real threat, and not President Trump, the GOP and their billionaire backers. Its why the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has chosen to blacklist vendors who work for progressive primary challengers such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) instead of, for example, vendors who also work for corporate polluters or union busters.

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Why Are Big-Money Democrats Turning Their Fire on Progressives? - The Nation

Tick-tock, the clock is running down and the day of reckoning approaches. Labour inches forward tantalisingly in the polls, but can it cut the Tory lead to below that crucial 7% mark, stopping an outright majority? Extreme agitation grows, anticipating the exit poll results, seconds after 10pm on election night. One thing is certain: Labour will not win a majority. Whether you yearn for it or dread it, the party is as likely to have its HQ hit by a meteorite on 12 December as win outright. (Happy to eat a hundred hats if Im wrong.)

What is all too possible is a blue wave sweeping all before it to wipe out all that tactical nuancing of each seat. In that instant our Brexit doom will be sealed and Boris Johnson will be off the leash with the BBC, NHS, and safety, food and work regulations all in peril. As his partys manifesto suggests, we will be out of the European convention on human rights, and he will be free to do anything that takes his populist fancy (alone with Belarus, no place for minorities or journalists). Whether throwing away keys, reintroducing capital punishment, banishing foreigners, stamping on scroungers or cracking down on Gypsies and Travellers, now that hes replaced Tory liberal lawyers with cohorts of Priti Patel, he will be able to use any means to bind his ex-Labour Brexit seats to Torydom.

Thats the nightmare: Britain joining the right-wing authoritarians to break Europes civilised democratic values

Thats the nightmare: Britain joining the rightwing authoritarians to break Europes civilised democratic values. Johnson has discovered that truth and rules are for little people. He finds there is no authority to stop his rule by yobs with posh accents, if only they can grab those Labour votes. Look at that peevish threat to review Channel 4s licence for empty-chairing him.

Theres only one alternative but its a good one. This deeply divided country needs a parliament to reflect itself and block the blue menace. The only balm is a parliament of compromise that blends progressive manifestos and sends the Brexit decision back to the voters, because nothing else can settle it.

Heres another certainty: a majority will not have voted for Johnson. An even bigger majority will not have voted for Jeremy Corbyn. Call it what they like a confidence and supply agreement, a vote by vote pact but Labour, the Liberal Democrats, the Scottish National party, Greens and Plaid Cymru together have the makings of a very good government. Never mind the nominal leader: its priorities, taxing and spending would be set together as all are agreed on ending austerity; electoral reform would be the glue.

Can Labour stop a blue victory? We who travel about asking at bus queues, pubs and school gates, or knocking on doors, glean little more than those perusing unreliable polls. You sniff the air and hope to catch prevailing breezes. You hear pain, irritation with politics and ever more uncertainty. Sharp vignettes illuminate family lives framed in doorways. And some dottiness makes your head spin.

I was listening in the Wakefield constituency, which voted 63% in favour of Brexit, making it one of the weak bricks in Labours so-called red wall. Mary Creagh defends a 2,176-vote majority. If she falls, she leaves 14 years of landmarks: she fought for a new performing arts Brit school of the north, flood defences saving the city so far, a new hospital and more. She would be a loss to the green cause: the Environmental Audit Committee she chaired was instrumental in the ban on microbeads, and it won a single-use plastic bottle return law. Now it is in the midst of a fight over tons of fast-fashion waste. Good and bad MPs are swept along by election tides.

In Ossett, Creaghs most Brexit-supporting ward, she talks of austerity 11 Sure Start centres lost, 69m school cuts, food banks, a homeless man found dead last week. But theres a Fuck off! from a man in paint-splashed overalls. Im for Farage, he says, for sending back immigrants. Youve got a clown for a leader. Creagh usually tells Corbyn doubters, You might not like the manager but you still back the team. Thats no use here.

A mother murmurs, yes, shes Labour. Her autistic son cant leave the house, four years out of school but he can only find three hours a week tutoring. Sure Start was great when he was little, she says. Im sorry it went. Im for remain, Im really worried what Brexit will do. Will her husband vote Labour? She looks nervous and whispers, Youll have to ask. We dont talk about it. I dont know. Inside, he says brusquely: I was Labour, but no more. Im for Farage, got his feet on the ground. We voted out, so its out!

Many do greet Creagh warmly: firm Labour supporters, talking of cuts and remembering the time she got their personal independence payments (Pip) restored, the bedroom tax sorted, a universal credit payment challenged or the books she got for an empty school library. But theres that other wild card: one mum outside the school gates stomps past, hissing, Im voting Corbyn, not for you, Blairite!, a sign of another upcoming battle.

Heres Brenda Trenam to cheer the day with her home full of animals and birds. She voted leave but regrets it now. Changed my mind, I never expected disruption, she says. Its bad for our childrens future and for food prices. Labour? We always are. Shes a housekeeper for a cystic fibrosis ward. I see the nurses stress getting worse. I should be retired, but they took away my pension. Will Labour really give it back? But shes stunned when her husband Leslie says, Im uncertain. Im Brexit and Boris says hell get us out. Ive been Tory a few years. Oh no he hasnt! Brenda says, outraged.

Lisa Dodd is another leave regretter. We use the NHS a lot, my husband broke his neck, I had cancer, my mum was sick, so that 350m on the bus for the NHS swayed me. Now I worry what Brexit will do for our children and I want to vote again. Shes out posting Labour leaflets. But what do you say to the mother who tells me her whole family is moving to Spain unless they get Brexit? Or to a nurse wasting a vote here on no-hope Lib Dems?

Out of all that, the thwack of firm government forcing a non-consensual Brexit, with only minority support, would break politics as we know it. Roll on a progressive concordance of the reasonable that would let voters fix the Brexit mess.

Polly Toynbee is a Guardian columnist

This article was amended in two respects on 3 December 2019. The proportion of referendum voters in the constituency of Wakefield who favoured leaving the EU was corrected to 63%. The previously quoted figure (66%) referred to the area covered by Wakefield council. Secondly, the Environmental Audit Committee helped the passage of a return law for single-use plastic, rather than glass, bottles.

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To hold back the Tory wave, progressives will have to join forces - The Guardian

By Ray Lesniak

So much is written and heard about the inability of progressives and conservatives to come together and address the issues that divide our society. Yet New Jersey is on the verge of bridging that divide - on criminal justice reform.

Legislation I have championed for five years, Earn Your Way Out, is the most significant criminal justice reform proposal in America and has support from progressives and conservatives. It has passed the state Senate and Assembly and just needs Senate concurrence in Assembly amendments and Gov. Phil Murphys signature to become law.

Earn Your Way Out will give inmates an opportunity to become better persons when they leave prison than when they entered - by beginning a reentry program upon entry into prison that will give them a day off their sentence for every six days an inmate participates in education, job training, therapy and community service programs.

Its a program that will save millions of tax dollars and, at the same time, better prepare inmates for a successful law-abiding reentry into society. America has 5% of the worlds population and 25% of the worlds prison population and three of 10 released from prison return to prison in three years. These numbers not only reflect upon the prisoner, but directly affect the prisoners family and community, in addition to costing taxpayers over $60,000 a year to incarcerate and individual.

Earn Your Way Out also includes presumptive parole, which grants parole on presumptive parole dates to inmates who have not had serious offenses while in prison. Violent prisoners with No Early Release Date Sentences will still be held to their original sentences and be subject to review by the Parole Board before being eligible for release from prison.

With Presumptive Parole, New Jerseys bloated Parole Board with 13 full-time members who benefit from political patronage appointments -- and work just three-to-five hours many days for salaries of $116,000 to $123,000 a year, plus cars, four weeks vacation and full health and pension benefits --- will have its workload reduced by 75%, hopefully persuading the Legislature and governor to likewise reduce its size and use the tax dollars more effectively by hiring full-time professional parole officers to supervise ex-offenders and help them lead law abiding lives.

Americans for Prosperity, a conservative political advocacy group in the United States funded by David Koch and Charles Koch agree. As the Koch brothers primary political advocacy group, it is one of the most influential American conservative organizations. At a recent Assembly Appropriations Committee meeting, Tyler Koteskey, criminal justice policy analyst at Americans for Prosperity, said, Earn Your Way Out would give inmates with a track record of good behavior and a desire for rehabilitation additional opportunities to accrue compliance credits against their sentence and a pathway to a streamlined administrative parole release.

While New Jerseyans who commit crimes should be held accountable, they dont benefit from policies that incarcerate those ready to re enter their communities longer than is necessary. And at per-inmate incarceration costs of over $60,000 per year, neither do New Jersey taxpayers. By allowing administrative parole for lower level, well-behaved offenders who have sought out rehabilitative programming, Earn Your Way Out will give more New Jerseyans in the correctional system the opportunity to turn their lives around, contribute to their communities, and reunite with their families.

Earn Your Way Out also tasks the state Department of Corrections with creating a Division of Reentry Services, which will help inmates prepare for release and connect them with resources tailored to a variety of potential individual needs, such as mental health, substance abuse, employment, or education. Connecting inmates with these individualized services will go a long way in improving New Jerseys recidivism rate and continuing to reduce taxpayer burdens. By ensuring New Jersey sentencing is more proportional to offenders individual circumstances, we can avoid these drawbacks and make our state a more just place."

Koteskey said, "I applaud Earn Your Way Outs effort to provide earlier second chances. Its an important step forward for New Jersey that stands to benefit both reentering citizens and taxpayers alike.

Conservative Americans For Prosperity and New Jerseys progressive sponsors of Earn Your Way Out, Senator Sandra Cunningham and Assemblywoman Savada Sumpter, have united progressives and conservatives, Democrats and Republicans, a rare occurrence these days. Earn Your Way Out has brought both political philosophies together. It should occur more frequently.

Raymond (Ray) Lesniak served in the State Senate from 1983 to 2018 and in the General Assembly from 1978 to 1983.

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