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Design by evolution: engineering biology in the 21st century
Design by evolution: engineering biology in the 21st century
Efficient and wonderfully creative, biology could offer elegant solutions to problems that range from producing renewable fuels and chemicals to combating disease. To compose the DNA that codes for these functions, I work with the one proven algorithm for biological design: evolution. A powerful approach to creating useful new biological molecules, directed evolution both circumvents and underscores our profound ignorance of how sequence encodes function. By breeding them in the laboratory, we can make the proteins nature may not have cared about, but biomolecular engineers dream of. I will describe some exciting applications of this evolutionary approach to engineering the biological world. Frances Arnold, Ph.D., is the Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, where she creates new biological molecules and organisms by forcing their evolution in the laboratory. An elected member of all three US national academies (Science, Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine), she recently accepted the National Academy of Engineering's 2011 Charles Stark Draper Prize.
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The Draper Prize
The Draper Prize
The Charles Stark Draper Prize was established by the National Academy of Engineering and endowed by Draper Laboratory in 1988. The Prize recognizes achievement in all engineering disciplines. This video was created to accompany the awarding of the prize at the NAE's annual dinner.
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Next Giant Leap Announcement at NASA Ames
Next Giant Leap Announcement at NASA Ames
In December, 2008, the Google Lunar X PRIZE Mystery Team formally announced its identity: Next Giant Leap, a partnership of Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation, Busek Company, Inc., The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., MicroSat Systems, Inc., and MIT Space Systems Laboratory. The announcement event was held at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.
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Digital Design: Beyond Trial and Error
Digital Design: Beyond Trial and Error
Google Tech Talks August 19, 2008 ABSTRACT With few exceptions, the design of digital systems -- both hardware and software -- is based on trial and error, and it is this aspect of digital design that we must move beyond in order to achieve a fundamental advance in the reliability and security of the systems we create. In this talk, we take a critical look at the problem from the perspective of other engineering disciplines in which: (a) design is not trial and error but instead is based on rigorous mathematical principles and (b) concurrency is expressed in a natural and transparent way. From this critical analysis, we identify four requirements for a methodology to take us beyond trial and error. We then give an overview of a methodology that meets those requirements. Speaker: Fred Furtek Dr. Furtek has broad experience in both hardware and software development with special expertise in reconfigurable multi-core processors, massively parallel algorithms and the mathematics of concurrency. He was among the first to work in the area of formal verification (The MITRE Corporation and The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory). He was also one of a handful of individuals to recognize the potential of reconfigurable hardware, and subsequently founded a field-programmable-gate-array company (Concurrent Logic) whose technology has been licensed to several major companies (Apple Computer, National Semiconductor and IBM) and which was ultimately purchased by another semiconductor <b>...</b>
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Dr Vinton Cerf Presentation in Brisbane
Dr Vinton Cerf Presentation in Brisbane
Dr Vinton G Cerf, cofounder of the internet and Senior Vice President at Google presents 'Internet infinity and beyond' recorded in Brisbane Australia March 2007. Presented by Alessandro Sorbello www.alessandrosorbello.com for New Realm Media www.newrealm.com.au Vinton G. Cerf Vice President & Chief Internet Evangelist Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google. He is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies and applications on the Internet and other platforms for the company. Widely known as a "Father of the Internet," Vint is the co-designer with Robert Kahn of TCP protocols and basic architecture of the Internet. In 1997, President Clinton recognized their work with the US National Medal of Technology. In 2005, Vint and Bob received the highest civilian honor bestowed in the US, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. It recognizes the fact that their work on the software code used to transmit data across the Internet has put them "at the forefront of a digital revolution that has transformed global commerce, communication, and entertainment." From 1994-2005, Vint served as Senior Vice President at MCI. Prior to that, he was Vice President of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI), and from 1982-86 he served as Vice President of MCI. During his tenure with the US Department of Defense's Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 1976-1982, Vint played a key role leading the development of Internet and <b>...</b>
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Vinton Cerf - Infinity and Beyond
Vinton Cerf - Infinity and Beyond
Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist Google presented 'Internet, Infinity and Beyond' in Brisbane on March 8th 2007. Alessandro Sorbello hosted the press conference prior to the presentation and produced the Film for New Realm Media. Vinton G. Cerf is vice president and chief Internet evangelist for Google. In this role, he is responsible for identifying new enabling technologies to support the development of advanced Internet-based products and services from Google. He is also an active public face for Google in the Internet world. Cerf is the former senior vice president of Technology Strategy for MCI. In this role, he helped to guide corporate strategy development from a technical perspective. Previously, he served as MCI's senior vice president of Architecture and Technology, leading a team of architects and engineers to design advanced networking frameworks, including Internet-based solutions for delivering a combination of data, information, voice and video services for business and consumer use. Widely known as one of the "Fathers of the Internet," Cerf is the co-designer of the TCP/IP protocols and the architecture of the Internet. In December 1997, President Clinton presented the US National Medal of Technology to Cerf and his colleague, Robert E. Kahn, for founding and developing the Internet. Kahn and Cerf were named the recipients of the ACM Alan M. Turing award, sometimes called the "Nobel Prize of Computer Science," in 2004 for <b>...</b>
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Lec 18 | MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
Lec 18 | MIT 16.885J Aircraft Systems Engineering, Fall 2005
Mission Control 2 View the complete course: ocw.mit.edu License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at ocw.mit.edu More courses at ocw.mit.edu
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Michael Lerner Sam Botta Atlas Shrugged April 15 Movie Release Oscars
Michael Lerner Sam Botta Atlas Shrugged April 15 Movie Release Oscars
ATLAS SHRUGGED Michael Lerner Ayn Rand Scott Brick Audible Amazon The Bachelor when there's genuinely romantic, genuinely sweet (and did we mention genuine?) televised proposals like this? Sam Botta IMDB search Tonya Roberts Charlies Angels, of two years, accountant Jesse Sloan, popped the...
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Tanya Roberts Outrageous Love & Friendship Sam Botta-Live Fearless-Chris Shining,Executive Producer
Tanya Roberts Outrageous Love & Friendship Sam Botta-Live Fearless-Chris Shining,Executive Producer
Her husband of 25 years had died from illness, she was there for him and has overcome the grief and built a new life. Sam Botta: I asked you the secret of lifetime love (two years before)... And you said your man at the time adores you... Tanya Roberts: My man died 18 months ago after 25 years of a beautiful marriage, I grew up with him, and he did adore me, I adored him, and that's what happens, I'm lucky to have had 25 years of outrageous love and friendship. SB: How did you get through the pain? TR: If I didn't pull myself together I wouldn't have been able to keep him alive and take care of him, that's what you do. It's Nothing heroic you just do it. You don't want to see the one you love totally screwed up.. and you manage. I love you. www.imdb.me/livefearless IMDB.COM: www.imdb.com Tanya Roberts came from modest beginnings in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of a pen salesman (Irish) and a mother (Jewish) who were divorced before she reached high school. Tanya dropped out of high school at age 15, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her mother-in-law had the marriage annulled. She met psychology student Barry Roberts in New York while waiting in line to see a movie. A few months later, she proposed to him in a subway station, and they were married. .. Beautiful love story. Secretly hope. Live life with the kind of love that lasts. The memories, the hopes, the dreams. Never forgetting, especially On a sad day when we've lost a life-altering talent <b>...</b>
