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Firas Khatib is a postdoctoral researcher in David Baker’s Laboratory in the Biochemistry Department at the University of Washington. He is currently trying to cure cancer by getting people to play online video games, specifically Foldit, but has yet to break the news to his grandmother who would not approve. Firas received his PhD in Bioinformatics from UC Santa Cruz in 2008 where he gave the graduate commencement speechfor the school of engineering; luckily they still gave him his degree.

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – A community member at large wonders what my opinion is on “E-charity”, such as seti@home. Do I think they are a passing fancy? No… I don’t. I feel this is the wave of the computing future.

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