Course Description: 

A survey of the cutting and "over the edge" research at the fringes of computer science and biology. New ideas in computing derived from biology, medicine, Wall Street and quantum physics will be discussed by guest lecturers as well as by Dr. Karron. Emphasis will be DARPA sponsored research that Dr. Karron has been involved with for the past 5 years. 

Class Meets: 

Mondays 7:00pm-9:30pm. in NAC 6/112. NOTE THE ROOM CHANGE ! 

Topics: 

Biomedical Informatics; Biomemetic; New Computing Paradigms; Man-Machine Interface; Evolutionary Computing; Artificial Live; Brain Function and Repair; The Business of Science; Getting Your Ideas Funded; Selling Your Idea; The Art of The (sales) Pitch in Science; Financing Your Idea; Tactical Audio Displays; Digital Morse Theory... 

Student Projects:

    DNA Microarrays

    Computer Aided Surgery

    Genetic Algorithm

    Trading Dilemma

    Hidden Markov Model and Its Application in Protein Sequence Analysis

    Nano Technology

    DNA Computing 1

    Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging

    DNA Computing 2

Schedule and Background Reading: 

  1. Sep 11: Orientation (for both Dr. K and students).
  2. Sep 18: Prof., Herschel Rabitz, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University Quantum Computing. Here is Background Reading.
  3. Sep 25: Edward D. Weinberger, Ph.D. Blumenthal Associates, Inc. Pragmatic Information and Evolutionary Computing. The slides, spreadsheet, and outline for the lecture are on the Web.  Also, Here is about his research, working and Background Reading.  
  4. Oct 2:  Dr. S. Vincent Grasso, Endoscopic Surgery/Telemedicine Consultation, Founder and CSI - TIMA (http://www.tima.net ), Technology Integrations for Medical Applications Inc. He will speak on SAPIENT SYSTEMS:SIMULATION AND PROCESS VALIDATION FOR CRITICAL ENVIRONMENTS. Dr. Grasso is a practicing endoscopic surgeon and adventurer, research associate of the Explorers Club, having served on the Mt. Everest Extreme Medical Expeditions sponsored by Yale University and NASA. He is an expert on extreme medicine and high altitude adaptation. He has done live medical video conferences from Everest as well as other far away locations. He designs, evaluates and field tests intelligent wireless portable medical instrumentation.  
  5. Oct 10: F.James Rohlf PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Prof. Rolf will demonstrate his morphometric software and discuss his research. For more information,please refer to the web and his personal website. 
  6. Oct 16: CANCELLATION, Dr. K. is away. 
  7. Oct 23: Alianna ("A.J.") Maren, Ph.D. Chief Technology Officer, Aardvark Associates. The talk will be on new (and existing) computational methodologies appropriate for personalization - a subject which is transforming the way we do business, and which will have profound impact on our lives over the coming years. Here is the presentation for the lecture. 
  8. Oct 30: Dr. Jim Cox. His topic is Digital Morse Theory.
  9. Nov 06: MIDTERM Oral Progress Reports , Draft Papers DUE.
  10. Nov 13: Dr. Fintan Steele, PhD, the editor of Gene Therapy Journal at Academic Press. Dr. Steele will speak on the latest progress and dirt on Gene Therapy. The best overview is at the Mother of all data, NCBI.  The definition site is here.  Dr. Steele also wrote something recently.
  11. Nov 20: Dr. Richard Satava, Yale Department of Surgery,  The Information Age is DEAD; Long Live The BioIntelligence Age!
  12. Nov 27: Dr. Barry Cohen. Will discuss a) What is RNA, and why is it interesting and important to study? b) The state of the art is RNA folding algorithms. c) Research which seeks to map the virtual space of sequence and shape within which RNA evolves. d) How a battery of algorithmic techniques, including dynamic programming, complexity analysis, backtracking and Monte Carlo simulations, can be brought to bear on these problems.
  13. Dec 04: Dr. D. B. Karron Digital Morse Theory Demonstration.
  14. Dec 11: Last Class, Final Oral Presentations/Papers DUE !  HAPPY End of Semester ? Party Afterward ? !
Term Project: 

All Term Projects must be approved by Dr. K before work starts !

Topic Changes must be approved by Dr. K !

Teaming or work groups are expected. 5 member MAX. Team leaders please name your team, and e-mail me with your members and topic by next week (by Oct 2). Minimum Team is 2. Please, no solo projects/papers. Most of you have expressed the desire to go into industry. Teaming and Group work is what you need to get experience with. All group members are expected to stand for questions during the presentations by the class and by Dr. K for Midterm Progress Reports and Final Reports. 

   Here are two links to topics in biocomputing / bioengineering. We need more links !  

  1. Information Overload?
  2. Click-and-sniff computers due soon
    Which is bioinformatics, which is bioengineering? Dr. K suggests this and other report topics.  
  
Interesting Links:   

The VMW-Virtual Medical Worlds link http://www.hoise.com/vmw/vmwc will bring you to the VMW community (VMWC). Founded on January 1, 1999, the VMWC is an active working group aiming at creating a dynamic synergy between users operating in the telemedical sector and technology suppliers to advance the European.....  (see more)  

  
Civilisation has advanced as people discovered new ways of exploiting various physical resources such as materials, forces and energies. In the twentieth century information was added to the list when the invention of computers allowed complex information processing to be performed outside human brains. The history of.....(see more)  

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Last updated:  3 Jan 2000 02:02am