Thursday, July 13, 2006

What a day!

Have you ever had one of those days when absolutely nothing related to technology worked right?

(Personally, I think I must have been an evil copymachine repair person in another life, and I'm paying back my bad karma in this life!)

One of the things that happened was that I a little while ago, I created a really interesting post - about gnome mapping - and somehow the whole thing just disappeared!

But, I really wanted to tell you about it, in case this is an area you're interested in, and have thought about getting your doctoral degree in...It's about a really exciting computer system, called "SuperLink Online" - it's been around for five years, and using the capabilities of literally thousands of linked computers (during their down time), they can pinpoint the exact location of disease genes in certain families genomes - which helps scientists to develop effective disease treatments.

And the thing is super-fast as well...in fact, the system provides results tens of times faster than previous gene-mapping programs!

If you'd like to learn more, click on the link to read the entire article.

I've written a couple of magazine articles on this stuff, and like I said, I find it completely fascinating!

Let me know what you think...

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Town Talk - Neumann Hosts Info Sessions For Degree-Seeking Adults

If you're a working adult and you've considered going back to school to finish your degree, you should check out Neumann College near Philly.

In fact, if you live in the area, why not plan on attending their free Undergraduate Program Information session on Wednesday, July 26 at 6 p.m.

College reps will be providing information about their accelerated undergraduate degree completion program for adults, as well as the traditional adult evening programs in business administration, education and nursing.

But starting this fall, the accelerated program will be available completely online, or in a classroom setting.

To find out more, read the entire article here: