This was a great week on the job hunting front. Jo got a job offer from Volkswagen – they want her to work in the Palo Alto lab on hybrids, fuel cells, biodiesel, and other green stuff – which is …More
Tag: bio
Not Quite Gods
July 13, 2006
Where else but Stanford can one amble out at twilight for a walk and come across a two-time Pulitzer prize winner giving a talk on the importance of History? Joanna and I were taking a stroll last night and we …More
When we were very young
March 1, 2006
Astronomy 1983 Number of planets in the solar system: 9Number of known planets: 9 Astronomy 2006 Number of planets in the solar system: 11Number of known planets: at least 187 Electronics 1983 Top of the line Intel Chip: 80286Transistor count: …More
Christmas Eve
December 24, 2005
I love Christmas. It’s the only time of year I get to see my whole family. We did the usual thing this year – Christmas Eve at Mommom Shed’s with dinner at Westleys, then Christmas Day at Mommom Lee’s with …More
The perfect bioweapon
November 30, 2005
[Future Tech] I read an interesting article in the New Scientist today about scientists who are creating oncolytic viruses to selectively kill cancerous cells. The first generation of this research has involved co-opting a virus, such as hepatitis, stripping it …More
I met the Creator
October 31, 2005
Well, I actually didn’t meet him — I narrowly missed him. I went to Santa Cruz on Saturday with Joanna to hang with Mommypuff and Gogo. We were walking down one of the main streets there, amid signs that promoted …More
Making the Impossible Very Difficult
October 28, 2005
My week: 1. Finished 145 (XPath/XQuery)2. Finished 147 (the usual)3. Got pwned at Lucky Dhaba (Wampler is back!) While the irony is not entirely lost on me, I was dismayed by what Adit believes is “good Indian food”. At least …More
CS140 – Operating Systems and Systems ProgrammingCS145 – Introduction to DatabasesCS157 – Logic and Automated ReasoningCS270 – Introduction to Biomedical InformaticsCS510 – Digital Systems Reliability SeminarCS147 – Introduction to Human-Computer InteractionMSE220 – Probabilistic Analysis—23 units.
American Science Dynasty in Peril
August 31, 2005
The 20th century is often dubbed the “American Century”, and rightly so. America’s dominant position on the world stage during this period was due in large part to the nation’s scientific vitality (and superiority). Companies like AT&T (Bell Labs), IBM, …More
Carbon nanotubes nuke cancer
August 4, 2005
[Future Tech] Nanotechnology has been harnessed to kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. The technique works by inserting microscopic synthetic rods called carbon nanotubules into cancer cells. When the rods are exposed to near-infra red light from a laser …More
