Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Actually I have a friend at the Salk Institute that is working on software just like that. It will be able to predict the interaction of brain neruons with drugs. The drug companies are going nuts trying to win him into their camp. His software requires the biggest Supercomputers on the planet. He tests the biggest of IBM's mainframes before they play Kasparov. (ASCII White, Deep Blue, etc.). His software gives their computers something to sink their teeth into. Oh, and he's switching to G5 Macs and OS X. :-) On Oct 30, 2003, at 8:48 AM, B. D. Colen wrote: > I've always been astounded that the Bob Barkers of the > world think that people can program a computer to determine if a drug > is > going to work. - -- Eric A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen, philosophers, and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html