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Here is Alan’s vision for 2030 summarizing his insights from the Equinox Summit.
http://wgsi.org/sites/wgsi.org/files/file-con...20Alan%20Aspuru-Guzik.pdf

[Jun 15, 2011 1:41:16 PM]

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Our REU summer student Jimmy Zhu has started to make some really nice progress building candidate structures for OPV acceptors based on buckyballs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullerene

[Jun 16, 2011 5:26:12 PM]

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Something light for the weekend. This matter may seem like a trivial issue from the outside – but it is quite serious, really biggrin

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http://xkcd.com/910/

[Jun 17, 2011 1:29:54 PM]

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That's hilarious, it must be even harder when all the good names are already taken: I saw this in 10 Ware today:

[Jun 18, 2011 10:12:53 PM]

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And the odds that any random university will have a server named after a Roman or Greek god are...

[Jun 22, 2011 4:17:43 AM]

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We nearly forgot to report that Carlos was in town from Mexico last week. We did a good bit of planning on the next stages of our data analysis.

[Jun 22, 2011 6:54:22 PM]

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Hi ibsteve2u,
haha, the big Harvard cluster is called Odyssey...

Hi smwood,
awesome. Shows how popular The Simpsons are in academic circles biggrin

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Best wishes
Your Harvard CEP team

[Jun 22, 2011 6:56:40 PM]

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Our other undergrad Aidan Daly has also been making some nice progress in using Gaussian processes for our data analysis.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian_process

[Jun 23, 2011 2:25:56 PM]

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There is a very nice article on CNN Money about the World Community Grid and distributed volunteer computing in general. Well worth reading! We hope it inspires more people to join in.
http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/23/technology/ibm_world_community_grid/

[Jun 23, 2011 5:58:59 PM]

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Aidan and Roberto have started to use the Dragon software which provides more than 4000 physicochemical and topological descriptors for our cheminformatics work in CEP.
http://www.talete.mi.it/

[Jun 24, 2011 2:44:57 PM]

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