Quoted: Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) works to unlock the mysteries of the immune system. Its team of world-renowned scientists is focused on identifying causes and cures for devastating diseases including diabetes, arthritis, heart diseases and cancer. BRI is an international leader in immune system and autoimmune disease research with a focus on translating laboratory discoveries to real life applications.

The technology that made Scoble cry.

A demo at Microsoft made Scoble cry. See his teaser post at:

http://scobleizer.com/2008/02/14/microsoft-researchers-make-me-cry/

He can't disclose it until Feb 27th - with a video release on March 3rd.

The goal of Jeff Hawkins company is building computing systems that can perform tasks with human-like skill.

Quoted: As many of you know, fireworks are prohibited within the City of Medina and the Town of Hunts Point. In preparation for the upcoming holiday, the Medina Police Department would like to provide you with the following facts and reminders from the Office of the State Fire Marshall:

Quoted: Welcome to the official Web site for the discussion and ongoing discovery of theories and concepts presented in On Intelligence, written by Jeff Hawkins and Sandra Blakeslee.

I did a search on "elegans" in the Fred Hutch faculty directory - you can see the principal researchers that are using this worm as a model to study cancer, metabolism, and development.

Hits include Roth, Van Gilst, and Buck.

Dr. Syrjala is studying the long term health effects of cancer treatment. Here clinic studies are looking at survivors well past the 5 year mark. She is finding higher incidence of obeisity, and muscular or joint pain.

She is trying to determine if there is a biolgical cause, or if other factors are at work (including the possiblity that people that have undergone cancer treatments lead a more sedentary life style than the general population).

Andy Rooney says, "Jacques is the smartest person I've ever known."

Quoted: This book has guided more Ph.D. theses into successful completion and more decent, serious academic works through research and writing and into print than any other single work available.

No mention that Microsoft TechFest 2007 was open to the public. I was on campus a few weeks ago and saw the big banners announcing it - but I assumed it was from MS employees only.

Anyway - they have posted videos on the Microsoft Research site if you want to catch some of went on.

I also saw a FlickR photoset that Scoble was there - so podtech will likely have some coverage.