Cory J. Geesaman » Science and Tech

Someone Finally Realized Where The Industry Is Going

CoryG — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:51:57 +0000

Thankfully I started on this over a year ago.

From http://www.emc.com/about/news/press/2009/20091103-01.htm

Cisco and EMC, Together with VMware, Form Coalition to Accelerate Pervasive Virtualization and Private Cloud Infrastructures
The article begins:
SAN JOSE, California – Nov. 3, 2009 –Cisco and EMC, together with VMware, today introduced the Virtual Computing Environment coalition, an unprecedented collaboration of three information technology (IT) industry leaders. The coalition has been created to accelerate customers’ ability to increase business agility through greater IT infrastructure flexibility, and lower IT, energy and real estate costs through pervasive data center virtualization and a transition to private cloud infrastructures.

Reptile Lineage

CoryG — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:48:54 +0000

Launching a new site called Reptile Lineage to track reptile and amphibian bloodlines this weekend. The site is located at http://www.reptilelineage.com/ and will help to bring a higher level of information processing to the designer herp community.

Neuro Engineering

CoryG — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:16:27 +0000

Wired has a two part story on neuro engineering using light and magnetic fields (in that order for the two parts) at:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/neuroengineering1 and http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/03/neuroengineering2

Part two also contains a link to an open source TMS machine which looks like it could be a lot of fun (http://transcenmentalism.org/OpenStim/tiki-index.php).

Open Source Pharmaceuticals

CoryG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:34:31 +0000

As reported on http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/02/harnessing-the-crowd-to-make-better-drugs-mercks-stephen-friend-nails-down-5m-to-propel-biology-into-open-source-era/ a new non-profit is starting with the aim of creating an open source pharmaceutical research platform. Their website is located at http://www.sagebase.org/ and is called Sage. With recent articles about OpenWetWare.org Sage and Ginkgo Bioworks this seems like a new trend that will be mutually benifical to everyone.

Hydrogen Production

CoryG — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:23:19 +0000

From http://thefutureofthings.com/news/6541/hydrogen-produced-from-aluminum-and-water.html there is an article about breaking molecular bonds (in this case water) using the geometric shape of molecules. This seems cool, like a really primitive nucleolus, once they get the component to break the oxygen bonds they might just have the start of the engineering required to make one (being two or more steps and all )

The new hacking

CoryG — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:39:08 +0000

from http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/02/etech-preview-creating-biologi.html:

“If you’ve gotten tired of hacking firewalls or cloud computing, maybe it’s time to try your hand with DNA. That’s what Reshma Shetty is doing with her Doctorate in Biological Engineering from MIT. Apart from her crowning achievement of getting bacteria to smell like mint and bananas, she’s also active in the developing field of synthetic biology and has recently helped found a company called Gingko BioWorks which is developing enabling technologies to allow for rapid prototyping of biological systems.”

OpenWetWare.org is a cool site you should check out if you have any interest in biological engineering.