G.U.S.H....Reggae Style!
Host: GSC with Rosemary Rohde & Nadia Tyson
When: Friday, April 18 at 6:00pm
Where: Central Cats Rec Room
Scientists Display High-Tech Art at MoMA
The California Institute of Technology's Paul Rothemund, senior research associate in computation and neural systems and computer science, and Michael Roukes, professor of physics, applied physics, and bioengineering, are scientists who can now add artist to their resumes. Rothemund's DNA origami and a colorized electron micrograph of Roukes's nanoscience work will be displayed now through May 12 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Roukes's micrograph was even selected for the museum's permanent collection.
MoMA has taken a less-traditional path than usual this spring, featuring Rothemund's and Roukes's works alongside more than 200 objects and installations related to science and technology in an exhibit called Design and the Elastic Mind. Also shown: bioengineered wings grown from living pig tissue, a "Mind Chair" that mechanically taps images onto a person's back to be processed visually in the brain, and "Pox Teddy," a soft, virus-impregnated teddy bear that replaces needles as a means of vaccination.
"The exhibit has all kinds of stuff on origami," says Rothemund. "But it's also got a ton of information about bioengineering, genetics, and all kinds of displays on the future of technology." Roukes adds, "There can be a really beautiful aesthetic to high tech."
Rothemund's work involves taking strands of DNA and folding and pinching them into useful, and often decorative, shapes. According to Rothemund, the DNA origami are imaged by an atomic-force microscope that "essentially feels the height of the origami with a microscopic needle," like a record player generating music by moving over the grooves of a record, to generate a topographic map. Ultimately, DNA origami may be used to pattern wires and switches one-tenth the size of those inside current computer chips, potentially even leading to cheaper and toxin-free chips.
Rothemund's molecules self-assemble, and to illustrate how intricately they can do it, he has dictated that they fashion themselves into familiar icons like a map of the Americas, a smiley face, and various letters and geometric shapes. While traditional displays, like the scientific journals in which he publishes, flatten the origami into two dimensions, the MoMA exhibit allows Rothemund to show off the three-dimensionality of his work. Alongside still images, visitors will find magnified origami shapes etched by laser into glass blocks.
Various lectures, discussions, and gallery talks related to this exhibit will be offered at MoMA throughout April. For more information on the exhibit, visit http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=5632.
All about asparagus
Laurence Yeung
It's getting warmer, the days are getting longer, and my allergies are starting to act up. That can mean only one thing: asparagus season!
Why do I love asparagus? Nothing else tastes quite like it, for starters. It's sweet, it's tangy, it's pungent, it's fresh, it's savory, all in one vegetable! It's like a complete food that way, needing little more than salt and pepper to enliven the senses. Sure, it has its classic pairings, such as hollandaise sauce, morels, or bacon, but for this grad-student epicure, usually just a quick steam, boil, or saute is enough to bring out their full glory.This season I have been eating a lot of Zuckerman Farms' jumbo asparagus (South Pasadena farmer's market, Hollywood farmer's market) -- I would recommend buying the thickest stalks you can afford, and maximize that volume-to-surface area ratio. Here's why: skins just don't have that much flavor. So while the thin asparagus may be more tender, resulting in less trim loss, there is no way they can compare with the jumbos in flavor. Jumbos are also a lot more convenient to clean and prep, because there are fewer of them in a batch, and because they keep well in some water. Avoid being suckered into paying more for asparagus "tips," too -- usually they are just old tips trimmed off of woody stems (you can tell by examining the tips for dried out "leaves"), and not at all a premium product.
So here I offer you my modular technique for making boiled asparagus, sauteed asparagus, and asparagus soup. I love this method because each technique builds on the last, so they're easier to remember. You only need a couple things, though to enjoy this spring bounty: a knife, a cutting board, a fruit/vegetable peeler, some pots and pans, kitchen tongs (~$5 at Ross), and a blender if you're making soup. As for other ingredients, this calls only for salt, pepper, olive oil, butter, cream and vegetable/chicken stock -- homemade is best, but try to get the no-sodium stuff so you can adjust the seasoning to your taste.
To prep: Wash and dry the asparagus. Take one stalk into both your hands, and, starting at the rigid base end, feel where the stalk just starts to become more flexible. More up the stalk about another ?" and slice the asparagus with a sharp knife. The ease of the cut should be an indication of how well you gauged the transition point. I prefer this method to the oft-used bend-and-snap because this way you don't end up throwing away 50% of your ingredient, most of which is perfectly fine! The only step left is to peel the skin around the asparagus from about three inches from the tip to the base. It's entirely optional, but it certainly helps cover up any trimming mistakesÉTo boil/blanche: Put a medium-sized pot of salted water to an uproarious boil. You want the water to be as hot as you can get it, because anything less will rob you of that precious green color. Drop the tip-ends in first and let the water come back up to a full-boil for 1 or 2 minutes. The muted green color of the raw asparagus should now be a vibrant, sun-shining-through-the-clouds-onto-a-baseball-field green. Now use a set of tongs to turn the whole lot over so that the bases are now soaking. Let the water come up to a full boil for another minute (the stalks generally take less time to cook). Next, liberate them from their hot spring, plate, season with salt, pepper, and a touch of olive oil, and serve.
To saute: While your asparagus are blanching, gently melt 2-3 tablespoons of butter in a large saute pan. When blanching is complete, place the asparagus into the pan and saute gently (a very light sizzle) for 5-8 minutes, flipping them once during the process. During this time the tips should soften considerably, and their color will dip towards a deeper, forest green. Season and serve.
To make soup: Heat some vegetable/chicken stock (1.5 cups per "package" of asparagus) to a gentle boil. After the saute step, remove the asparagus from the pan and slice off some tips for garnish. Slice up the rest of the stalk and place into the boiling stock. Using an immersion blender (or standard blender), puree the soup together until smooth. Blend in some heavy cream (start with 1/4 cup) to enrich the flavor and the texture, and season well with salt. To serve, place some asparagus tips in the center of a soup bowl and ladle soup around them. Garnish with some olive oil, truffle oil, or some pepper. P.S. using thinner, unpeeled asparagus will result in a greener, grittier soup.
Advanced LIGO Project Funded by National Science Foundation
Upgrade will enable the new field of gravitational wave astronomy
The Advanced LIGO Project, an upgrade in sensitivity for LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatories), was approved by the National Science Board in its meeting on March 27. The National Science Foundation will fund the $205.12 million, seven-year project, starting with $32.75 million in 2008. This major upgrade will increase the sensitivity of the LIGO instruments by a factor of 10, giving a one thousand-fold increase in the number of astrophysical candidates for gravitational wave signals.
"We anticipate that this new instrument will see gravitational wave sources possibly on a daily basis, with excellent signal strengths, allowing details of the waveforms to be observed and compared with theories of neutron stars, black holes, and other astrophysical objects moving near the speed of light," says Jay Marx of the California Institute of Technology, executive director of the LIGO Laboratory.
Evans shouts out
Evans Boney
Yoo've got to be kidding me"We do not torture" Nov. 7th, 2005, President Bush. Perhaps he didn't know that confidential memos only remain confidential for so long. The ACLU has un-earthed a recently declassified 81 page memo from the Berkeley law professor to the Department of Defense general counsel in March 2003 in which he defends the legality of torture of enemy combatants. Combine this with claims of torture from detainees released from Guantanamo, and we're left wondering why our government behaves no better than 70's era Vegas thugs.
As if this weren't enough, in a debate with Doug Cassell on Dec. 5, 2005, when asked whether or not the president could legally torture children, John Yoo replied "No treaty [prevents that]... I think it depends on why the president thinks he needs to do that". How does a person advocate the legality of the torture of children and hold a professorial post? Larry Summers was offed from Harvard for a joke about women, how much more offensive are Yoo's comments on torture? I'd like to think academia holds higher standards than government, but here's a man who is being sued both internationally and domestically as a war criminal who remains Berkeley faculty. Innocent until proven guilty I suppose.
That issue aside, we cannot continue down this road as a nation. I agree, torture may get some information from some people that could not be obtained otherwise. However, our legal system at home is designed to protect the innocent until proven guilty. This is a legal system built on the premise that it is better to let the guilty go free than to punish the innocent. Of course, this doesn't apply internationally according to the brilliant legal mind of John Yoo.
So he's probably right, the current administration could get off if the case was tried in court. Of course, this would be dripping with irony, as they are privy to the legal defense they have denied countless others. Let's see them defend themselves against a military tribunal of people who have already made up their minds. We can, without a trial, crush the testicles of an "enemy combatant", even if he is a child, but we have to acquit our wonderful US citizens of that crushing because of precedent?
At the moment we're a schizophrenic, xenophobic nation. The problem isn't that we have a double standard for how we treat foreigners and citizens, but that there is no standard for how we treat foreigners. I suggest we find one before another foreign child gets his testicles crushed.
for more by this author: boneye.blogspot.com
New Rosen Bioengineering Center Funded
Seeing a burgeoning new research field at the interface of biology and engineering, the Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation of New York has donated $18 million to the California Institute of Technology to establish the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.
"Ben and Donna Rosen are recognizing how critical bioengineering is to the future of Caltech, science, and society, and they also appreciate the power an endowment can have in sustaining such an initiative," said Caltech President Jean-Lou Chameau. "The Institute is fortunate to have them as friends."
The Rosen Center will advance both basic scientific exploration and development of engineering analysis and synthetic approaches. Innovations in these areas are resulting in rugged and inexpensive diagnostic devices, in new insights into the functioning of the heart, and in the engineering of molecular devices capable of recognizing and responding to disease processes in individual cells.
Distilling on a chip
Since Babylonian times, a still has provided the means to turn grain, fruit, or vegetables into an intoxicating drink. Today, a still may provide a solution to the more complex problem of how to detect diseases.
California Institute of Technology researchers have crafted the world's tiniest still to concentrate scant amounts of micromolecules for easier detection. This device may help to overcome difficulties in tracking extremely low-abundance molecular biomarkers, which can indicate disease.
"Distillation has been around for millennia, and it's a well-established technology. There weren't many new avenues to develop because it's so well studied," comments David Boyd, a lecturer in mechanical engineering at Caltech and lead author of a paper describing the new approach to distillation in this month's issue of Analytical Chemistry. "But we've created a new space for distillation because you don't need to boil the fluid anymore."
Stills can separate components of a mixture as well as concentrate materials dissolved in liquid, and are used, among other things, to purify seawater, to separate crude oil, and to amplify alcohol content. Now, with nanoparticles of gold and a microbubble, Boyd and his colleagues have created a microscale still that operates at room temperature and pressure, making it potentially useful in biomedical devices.
The still is a microfluidic chip, with a microns-wide channel, thinner than a hair, etched into silicone rubber and serving as the microplumbing for tiny volumes of fluid. But unlike typical microfluidic chips, the channel is sealed by a glass slide studded with gold nanoparticles. Into the channel is introduced a microbubble wide enough to form an air gap in the fluid. Energy from a laser no more powerful than an average laser pointer heats the gold particles, which quickly transfer the heat to the liquid on one side of the bubble, turning it to vapor.
The vaporized liquid passes from the warmer to the cooler side of the bubble, where it condenses. "Only the most volatile molecules cross over the bubble, but everything else is left behind," Boyd describes. In conventional distillation, the same type of separation is achieved either by heating the entire volume of fluid to boil off individual components, or by reducing the gas pressure above the liquid to allow components to more easily escape, he explains.
Ultimately, the scientists hope that this tiny still can serve in the detection or monitoring of biological processes. They envision a sensor, perhaps even worn as a patch, that will concentrate larger molecules to detect what they are. Patients with diabetes, for example, could wear one to constantly monitor blood sugar level. As Goodwin describes, "Distillation is hard to do on a chip, but when you put it on a chip, it becomes a biomedical monitor."
GSC Teaching and Mentoring Award Nominations
Have you had a professor, advisor, or TA of exceptional quality? Nominate her or him for a GSC Award in one of three categories: Classroom Teaching, Mentoring, or TAing.Please encourage your classmates or labmates to nominate the individual(s) who deserve to be recognized. For group nominations, each person should still submit a nomination form. All nominations are due by May 9, 2008 but don't wait...nominate now! Nominations will be accepted through the school year and awardees will be selected by late May.
Important Housing Dates
Should I stay?
| May 1st by 5pm | 2008-09 graduate housing lottery application deadline Click! |
| May 16th by 5pm | lottery results posted |
| May 21st | Appointments to choose housing assignment |
| May 30th | 2008-2009 contracts due to |
| June 30th | Last day to cancel 2008-09 housing reservation without penalty |
| July 1st-Aug 31st | There will be a $150.00 fee to cancel 2008-09 housing reservation |
| July 31st-Aug 5th | Move period for residents with new housing assignments |
| September 1st | Start of 2008-09 housing contract. All residents will be charged for housing starting on September 1 |
| After September 1st | Terminate contract: 15 days written notice => $300.00 and <15 days => $500.00 for any cause other than a permissible cause in the grad contract. |
$10 Westside Rentals? Thanks MHF and GSC!
| May 1st-June 30th | Notify Housing of intent to vacate |
| May 1st-July 31st | Move out |
| July 31st | End of 2007-08 housing contract |
Hip-Hop
Time: Every Thursday 9-10 pmStart Date: April 3
Location: Braun Gym; Multipurpose Room
Instructor: Aukai Cain
Cost: $25/term students, $5 trial fee. $50/term non-student, $10 trial fee. 8 classes/term. Hip-hop grew out of the street dance movements in LA and New York. It has a high-energy, free-form style that is suited to dancers of all levels. Our professional instructor, Aukai Cain, has appeared on American Idol and Good Morning America. Come in comfortable clothing and tennis shoes or dance sneakers and be ready to jam with Aukai and the Dance Troupe!
Bellydance
Time: Every Saturday 12:45-1:45 pmStart Date: April 5
Location: Braun Gym; Multipurpose Room
Instructor: Leela
Cost: $25/term students, $5 trial fee. $50/term non-student, $10 trial fee. 8 classes/term. Bellydance is an empowering and beautiful form of dance. Taught by our professional instructor Leela, this cardio workout will leave you toned, energized and wanting more! Come join Leela and the Dance Troupe, and be ready to shimmy. No special shoes required. This class is for dancers at all levels of ability.
Caltech Dance Show 2008
The Caltech Dance show will take place on April 25, 26, and 27. The
Friday and Saturday night performances begin at 8 PM, and the Sunday
performance begins at 2 PM. Tickets only cost $5 and are available
from Caltech public events (626) 395-4652. The show is performed in
Ramo auditorium.
This year, the show promises to be an extravaganza of dance, with
several different styles represented including hip-hop, salsa, belly
dance, swing and many more. Watch in awe as fellow members of the
Caltech community demonstrate the artistic-side to life on campus.
Come along and support your colleagues!
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This event is presented with generous support from Caltech public events and student affairs.
Floorball
Floorball is a lightweight, non-contact version of indoor hockey played in tennis shoes-no skates. Pickup games are in Brown gym on Monday nights from 10pm to midnight. We play weekly pickup games throughout the spring term. We're always happy to get new players- no experience is necessary. There's a lot of running, so dress comfortably. Questions? Email Andrew at bandy@its.caltech.edu.
Women's Windsurf Trip
Saturday, May 3The Caltech Surf & Windsurf Club is offering its first Women's Windsurf Trip. It's open to all women in the JPL/Caltech community, is aimed at beginners and those with some experience, costs just $10, and includes the equipment and wetsuit rental, experienced instruction, and a t-shirt. The goal is to create a positive, stress-free atmosphere for women to learn how to windsurf from other women in the Caltech community.
By the end of the day, participants will be confidently windsurfing back and forth across Alamitos Bay, a pretty, protected lagoon in Long Beach, perfect for learning to windsurf. Participants will use great new equipment procured through the Moore-Hufstedler Funds.
For further information: contact Jane Rigby jrigby@ociw.edu phone: 520-668-4290
Guatemala Service Learning Trip 2008
June 29- July 12, 2008www.caltechy.org
Open to graduate and undergraduate students; Cost: $500 Applications are due by April 23rd.
This unique trip will combine the implementation of basic technology projects, volunteer work, home-stay living, language training and adventurous travel during 14 days in the beautiful and culturally rich country of Guatemala. Trip participants will work side by side with local farmers and Guatemalan university students on some of the challenging problems facing developing nations. Projects are still in the process of being finalized, but may include design and construction of irrigation systems, fabrication and market studies for sanitary latrine designs, and construction of pedal operated pumps and energy conservation tools.
During our time in the San Juan La Laguna, a rural community on the shores of Guatemala's Lake Atitlan, students will be living with carefully selected host families to further their Spanish skills and begin the process of understanding another culture. Students will be working on both small-group and larger-community based service projects where they will experience first-hand the vision, cooperation, and patience crucial to "making a difference". Once work in the community is wrapped up, the group will travel to the Mayan ruins of Tikal in northern Guatemala. Plenty of hiking, swimming and countless new cultural experiences promise to make this trip a fun-filled learning adventure for all.
This trip is being organized by Prof. Ken Pickar and the Caltech Y.
Applications and additional information
Wilderness First Aid Course
May 16-18, 8pm.The Caltech Y, Caltech Alpine Club, ASCIT and GSC are sponsoring a Wilderness First Aid + CPR course, taught by the Wilderness Medicine Inst of NOLS, to held at the Caltech Y May 16 evening and May 17-18 all day.This is not a standard first aid class. This fast-paced course covers many important topics needed to handle first aid emergencies in the wilderness, where medical equipment is not readily available and rescue may be hours or days away. The course lasts a total of 20 hours over 2.5 days -- half of the time spent in classroom lecture, half spent in hands-on practice scenarios. The course will be taught by two instructors from the Wilderness Medicine Institute, which is the world leader in wilderness first aid training. The course is only open to members of the Caltech community. The course fee is $40; however, all participants must also submit in advance an additional $80 deposit, which will be refunded after successful completion of the course. At most, there will be 30 participants.
We expect more people to want to take this course than the maximum of 30 slots. Thus we will ask those interested to fill out and submit a short application form by 5pm Friday April 11th. More info and the application form
It's Housing Lottery Time
The 2008-2009 lottery process is now in full swing. By now all graduate students should have received an email announcing the lottery process and how to apply online at www.housing.caltech.edu/grad/. The deadline for the lottery application is 5 p.m., Thursday, May 1, 2008. Please see full Lottery Rules for further information.Once all lottery applications and new graduate student applications are in, the Housing Office figures out the guaranteed cutoff number for returning graduate students. These students will be guaranteed a housing space during the 2008-2009 academic year. The Housing Office usually anticipates approximately 20 cancellations each year and over-compensates for this number in the guaranteed cutoff. Therefore, 20 spaces are already guaranteed to applicants who would have been on the wait list. We do this in order to house as many people as possible, sooner than the end of the cancellation period.
Each year approximately 100-150 applicants do not make the guaranteed lottery cut-off. We understand this is frustrating to grad students, who might be just five spaces down on the wait list. Unfortunately, we cannot predict when or how many applicants will cancel their reservations. In order to alleviate some of this frustration, the Housing Office will be updating the lottery results website daily in order to announce further cancellations and further movement on the wait list. Please check the website to check where you are on the wait list. However, unless you receive an official phone call or email from the Housing Office offering you a space, you are still not guaranteed a space. The 2007-2008 graduate housing contracts terminate at noon on Thursday, July 31, 2008. Therefore, if you are currently in Caltech housing in a lottery space, and have not been guaranteed an assignment for fall 2008, you must make alternate housing arrangements, and vacate your room on or before Thursday, July 31, 2008. There will be no extensions or exceptions to this date.
Please contact the Housing Office for any questions you may have regarding the process. Center for Student Services, 1st floor, building 86 on the campus map. Phone x6176. mailto:housing@caltech.edu
Thank you for your continued support of Caltech Housing and best of luck in the lottery!
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High-Tech Art at MoMA
Advanced LIGO Project Funded by National Science Foundation
New Rosen Bioengineering Center
Distilling on a chip
All about asparagus
Important Housing Dates
Caltech Dance Show 2008
CARMA-Raising Our Sites
Wednesday, April 16, 8pm. Beckman Auditorium. Anneila Sargent, the Benjamin M. Rosen professor of astronomy and vice president for student affairs at Caltech, will talk about radio astronomy in this Earnest C. Watson Lecture. Admission: free. Call campus extension 4652 for information.
Ballet Folklorico Quetzalli de Veracruz
Friday, April 18, 8pm. Beckman Auditorium. This troupe presents the traditional music, dance, and costumes from the Veracruz region of Mexico. Admission: $26.00, $21.00, and $16.00; youth high school age and under: $10.00; senior rush tickets may be purchased 30 minutes before the performance for $10.00 (subject to availability). Call campus extension 4652 for information.
Hotel Heliconia
Saturday, April 26, 2pm. Beckman Auditorium. This high-definition film screening will be followed by a discussion about the film led by Tara Adele Gomez from Caltech's division of biology. Admission: $5.00 (unreserved seating). Call campus extension 4652 for information.
The Rise of China
Thursday, May 1, 8pm. Beckman Auditorium, free parking located at 332 South Michigan Avenue, Pasadena (south of Del Mar Boulevard). Mike Chinoy, CNN's former senior Asia correspondent, will give this Voices of Vision talk. Admission: free. Call campus extension 4652 for information.
Capitol Steps
Friday, May 2, 8pm Saturday, May 3, 8pm Sunday, May 4, 3.30pm. Beckman Auditorium. This troupe of former Congressional staffers perform song parodies poking fun at politicians and other newsmakers. Caltech student admission: $5.00. Call campus extension 4652 for information.
Fighting Cancer with Nanoparticle Medicines
Wednesday, May 14, 8pm. Beckman Auditorium. Dr. Mark Davis, the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, will give this Earnest C. Watson Lecture. Admission: free. Call campus extension 4652 for information.Amnesty International
Sunday, Apr. 20, 6:30 pm: Human-rights book discussion group meets at Vroman's Bookstore (695 E. Colorado Blvd in Pasadena), 2nd floor. This month our book is "The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears" by Dinaw Mengestu, a novel about Ethiopian exiles in Washington, DC. Come and join the discussion, even if you haven't read the book.Thursday, Apr. 24, 7:30 pm: Monthly meeting in the CalTech Y (on San Pasqual between Hill and Holliston, on the south side behind the two curving walls). We will be discussing the current state of issues on which we are working and plans for the coming month.
Tuesday, May 13, 7:30 pm: letter-writing in the Athenaeum. We will meet in the Rathskeller in the basement. (Look for a table with the Amnesty sign.) Join us for actions on human-rights violations around the world, talk, and refreshments.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Thursday, April 17, 2:00 - 3:30 pmThursday, May 8, 2:00-3:30pm
Sherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328
Are you working on your thesis? Did you know that electronic copies of theses must be submitted? Are you aware of the formatting requirements for theses? You are encouraged to attend a brief overview of techniques useful in the production and publication of Caltech electronic theses. The session will include tips on: format guidance, Intellectual Property considerations, submitting a thesis and availability issues (who can see it and when). Register.
EndNote For Absolute Beginners
Thursday, April 24, 2:00-3:30pmSherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328
Are you writing a research paper or ready to start your thesis? Want an easy way to store, manage and search for bibliographic references? EndNote for Beginners may be just the quick start session you need. Learn what EndNote is and the basics of how it can work for you to create bibliographies within a word processing document, and as a search interface to online databases and catalogs allowing you to directly export records to your computer. EndNote for Absolute Beginners is intended for PC users, not Mac users. Register.
SciFinder Scholar
Thursday, May 15, 2:00-3:30pmSherman Fairchild Library, Multimedia Conference Room 328
SciFinder Scholar (Chemical Abstracts Service) is a premier database for science and engineering. In addition to chemistry and chemical engineering, it's coverage extends to the chemical aspects of astronomy, biology, education, engineering, economics, geology, history, mathematics, medicine, and physics.
SFS' content and format coverage (journal articles, patents, theses, etc.) will be reviewed and search techniques for topics, chemical substances and reactions will be shown. We will also briefly compare and contrast SFS with other important databases: Combined Chemical Dictionary, Beilstein/Gmelin, DiscoveryGate and the Kirk-Othmer & Ullmann's Encyclopedias. Register.
The Neurocommons: Open Source Knowledge Management for Neuroscience
Monday, May 5thBeckman Behavioral Biology Labs, Room 24
4:00pm
BBB 24 by John Wilbanks, Vice President, Science Commons
Seminar co-sponsored by the Neuroscience/CNS and Caltech Library Services
The power of the Web makes it possible to share, use, and develop new tools that leverage existing knowledge to greater productivity. The Neurocommons project of the Science Commons http://sciencecommons.org/ grew out of the realization that while the Web provides significant opportunity to enhance the use of research results there are also particular needs different from the cultural web that have to be met. Wilbanks will bring us up to date on the current status of data integration, text mining, and analytical tools being developed within the Neurocommons as a proof of concept of how Web technologies and renewed public domain sharing can improve uptake of new information in all applicable spheres of human endeavor. more