Check-mate
Pandemic viruses are one of the most threatening things that most of us can contemplate. Fortunately, some big guns are aimed at the potential problem. The Scripps Research Institute and IBM have announced a new collaboration called "Check-mate" which will capitalize on Scripps Research’s world class research in biochemical modeling and drug discovery and IBM’s […]
The MooBella Demo
It was such an exciting week at Demo that it is hard to summarize. There are many reviews of the conference on the web and you can find some of them at Kaboodle (one of the companies that debuted at Demo). There were sixty-eight companies showing off their latest and greatest — the Demo site […]
Geocaching at Demo 2006
The weather in Phoenix is beautiful. Both before and after the First Round Capital investor luncheon, I was able to head up on the trails near the hotel and find a couple of geocaches. If you have time I would recommend finding In The Rough and Camelback Mountain View Cache. Some of the others close […]
The Singularity
I did it. I read The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil cover to cover. I have to admit that this was the most difficult book I have ever read. It is a bit hard to summarize but basically the singularity is how Ray describes the merger of biological humans and […]
Fraud Reduction Could Fund A Chunk Of Healthcare
On February7 we will be discussing Computational Biology at Demo. No doubt we will hear about some potential breakthroughs in healthcare. One thing we know for sure is that new healthcare solutions are costly. How will people afford them? There are many issues associated with this and one of them is the fraud that occurs […]