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Slimane Adjerid (b. February 13, 1955) is a professor of mathematics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He received his Ph.D. (1985) and M.Sc. (1982) degree in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and his B.Sc. from Houari Boumedienne University of Sciences and Technology, Algeria.
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Photo: Joe Pugliese There is one version of Craig Venter’s life story where he would’ve been a dutiful scientist at the National Institutes of Health, a respected yet anonymous researcher in genetics, perhaps. Thankfully, Venter saw that story line developing—and set about making sure it never happened. Instead, in 1992 Venter left the NIH to head the nonprofit Institute for Genomic Research. Six years later he founded Celera Genomics, a brash rival to the NIH project that aimed to sequence the full code of the human genome. Venter had come up with a better technique—known as shotgun sequencing—to get the job done, and it changed the way we translate genetics from proteins into code.
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One of the hot topics in computer science is the study of unconventional forms of computation. This is motivated by two lines of thought. The first is theoretical--ordinary computers are hugely energy inefficient--some eight orders of magnitude worse than is theoretically possible. The second is practical--Nature has evolved many much more efficient forms of computation for specific tasks such as pattern recognition. Clearly, we ought to be able to do much better--hence the interest in different ways of doing things.
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