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Report on Big Data in the Life Sciences: Challenges, Risks and Rewards

Read National and Transnational Security Implications of Big Data in the Life Sciences by AAAS/FBI/UNICRI, 2014 http://www.aaas.org/report/national-and-transnational-security-implications-big-data-life-sciences

'The Automated Lab'

Offering scientists control of a wet lab by remote computer. Experiments to order   Ryffin, Transcriptic, Emerald Clould Lab http://www.nature.com/news/the-automated-lab-1.16429

Starting work at UW

I just moved to Seattle to join Dr Klavins lab! Will be working on closed-loop automation in their synbio lab. More info >> KlavinsLab.org

Speaking at Biological and Chemical Security in an Age of Responsible Innovation

Royal Society, London UK 19th-21st November 2014 Conference on Bio-Chem S&T and Security: Royal Society 19-21st November 2014

iGEM jamboree 2014

First year for the Policy and Practices track! Congrats to all the team competing in iGEM; we saw some amazing work 🙂

Teaching programming with Scratch

Because I learnt that most french schools weren’t teaching any computer science (other than word processing), I am giving a course using Scratch in an elementary school (8 to 9 year old) to teach them some basics about programming. I put together a very basic quiz with if-then-else and equals. scratch.mit.edu/ Hopefully, they’ll play with …

Algorithms and Architecture

Michael Hansmeyer: Computational architecture (Worked with L-systems too) http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/#4   The living lab, David Benjamin http://www.arch.columbia.edu/labs/living-architecture-lab

Seminar announcement: “Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”

THE MONTEREY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AND THE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES  PRESENT  A Seminar “Emerging Biothreats: Securing the Digital Dimension”  Speaker Laura Adam, Ph.D. Laura Adam is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Her presentation will offer a constructivist view of the biothreat as three “waves” of …