Vancouver-based Chrysalix Energy Venture Capital and the provincially-owned B.C. Innovation Council have organized two tours for TED attendees. Chrysalix, which bills itself as “the most active cleantech venture investor network in the world,” put together a daylong tour of Inventys, D-Wave Systems — creator of the world’s first quantum computers — and General Fusion, which …
Stunting was defined as the proportion of children below two standard deviations from the WHO length- or height-for-age standards median. Linear mixed-effects modelling was used to estimate rates and numbers of affected children from 1990 to 2010, and projections to 2020.In 2010, it is estimated that 171 million children (167 million in developing countries) were …
Vicarious is developing machine learning software based on the computational principles of the human brain. Their first technology is a visual perception system that interprets the contents of photographs and videos in a manner similar to humans. Powering this technology is a new computational paradigm we call the Recursive Cortical Network. Vicarious was founded by …
Laura Deming is an 18 year old venture capitalist Partner at Floreat Capital. At 18, Deming is already a venture capitalist, working closely with biotech legend Corey Goodman. She is obsessed with curing aging, she began working in labs at 12, entered MIT at 14. Frustrated that such work was not being commercialized, she obtained …
Solve for X – Howard Shapiro – Ending Stunting in Africa Stunting lasts for the rest of the persons life. Stunting is not a caloric problem it is lack of nutrition. Stunting effects 30% of Africa, 52% of India and 7% of the USA populations. 101 African orphan food crops will be sequenced. 101 sequences …
Ido Bachelet’s moonshot to use nanorobotics for surgery has the potential to change lives globally. But who is the man behind the moonshot? Ido graduated from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with a PhD in pharmacology and experimental therapeutics. Afterwards he did two postdocs; one in engineering at MIT and one in synthetic biology in …
Erez Livneh spoke about the potential of virus decoys to transform health care. Here’s a snapshot into this moonshotter’s background: Erez spent a decade conducting and leading bioresearch programs in both academia and biotech companies. Today, he is the Founder and CEO of Vecoy Nanomedicines, a NanoPharma company that develops a new generation of nanomedicines …
Pax Americana (1946-today) followed Pax Brittanica (1815-1914). Those were where the world was often more at peace with America and Britain leading the world. Note- the theory is the world was more at peace but not completely at peace. What would the Soviet Union and Stalin had done if the United States had not been …
C Spire is using the Google Fiber plan as a blueprint for building its own fiber-to-the-home network that the company hopes will eventually blanket Mississippi. C Spire executives are hopeful that a high-speed fiber broadband network could help improve Mississippi’s credit rating and help turn things around for the Magnolia state. Google’s chief financial officer, …
The New York Genome Center (NYGC) and IBM today announced an initiative to accelerate a new era of genomic medicine with the use of IBM’s Watson cognitive system. IBM and NYGC will test a unique Watson prototype designed specifically for genomic research as a tool to help oncologists deliver more personalized care to cancer patients. …
Last year, the USA started the Brain Initiative. It is a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain. The government initiative grew out of richly financed private research: A decade before, Paul G. Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, had set up a brain science institute in Seattle, to which he donated …