What I got out of listening to Craig Venter at The Long Now Foundation lecture last Monday night is a couple of perception shifts about life on Earth that sort of make the hair on the back of my neck stand up. You have to understand that Venter is a guy who has no qualms [...]
The other day I posted about some research going on to build unimaginably fast super-computers. The calculation numbers are so mind-boggling that it’s hard to relate to. But research done awhile back on building powerful but relatively inexpensive clusters of computers is paying off by improving a technique of breast cancer detection that wasn’t feasible [...]
So you might notice that we have a new look here. We redid the Blog from the ground up and even have a new header with our official logo. Why’s that? Well around six months ago my fellow Bloggers David Collin and Glen Ross let me know that FISpace had gone corporate! We were now [...]
The geeks over at Slashdot are reporting Google’s health record archive is about to be tested with the assistance of the Cleveland Clinic.
Thousands of patients (who must approve the transfer of information)
will have access to everything from their medical histories to lab
results through what Google considers a "logical extension" of their
search engine. So let’s discuss? [...]
Building super-computers seems a lot like drag racing: no matter how fast you are there’s always another mark to strive for. The Sandia and Oak Ridge National Labs just formed the Institutes for Advanced Architectures (of computers, not buildings). Their goal is to figure out how to build an exascale computer.
“An exascale computer is essential [...]
Here’s a survey by the McKinsey group about corporate philanthropy from the corporate side. It helps you get inside the heads of company execs.
Do you consider yourself an up-and-coming leader in philanthropy? The you might want to follow the FLiP blog. Future Leadership in Philanthropy is oriented to the community of people pursuing careers in the nonprofit area.
Last night I attended a lecture in San Francisco by J. Craig Venter–perhaps the highest profile proponent of synthetic biology around–at an event sponsored by The Long Now Foundation. (More about what Venter had to say later.) While standing in line to get in I met a guy named Robert Cormia, a faculty member at [...]
he American Cancer Society is launching a new
Web community that will help connect cancer survivors, their friends and family
members through the sharing of user-generated videos, photos, music and
artwork. SharingHope.tv allows users to create an account and upload video,
audio, photos and artwork in order to tell their stories of cancer in ways that
work best for them. [...]
Check out what the folks in the South Atlantic Division have been up to. Each of their states has it’s own Relay Mash Up showing where all their events are. And each push pin in the map links off to their Convio Web Site. Slick…
