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Ravi Pandya
Architect
Cloud Computing Futures
Microsoft
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03-Microsoft
00-02 Covalent
97-00 EverythingOffice
96-97 Jango
93-96 NetManage
89-93 Xanadu
88-89 Hypercube
84,85 Xerox PARC
83-89 University of Toronto, Math
86-87 George Brown College, Dance
95-Foresight Institute
97-Institute for Molecular Manufacturing

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Sun 24 Jan 2010

In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind, by Eric Kandel

http://www.amazon.com/Search-Memory-Emergence-Science-Mind/dp/0393329372
This is an engaging and inspiring scientific autobiography. Kandel chose a deep and complex problem to study, the physical basis of memory formation, linked in the book to his vivid childhood memories of Nazi-occupied Vienna. He then spent decades studying it in the simplest possible organism, a sea slug, and eventually teased out various ways in which memory formation results in physiological changes in nerve cells and connections. Interestingly, one of them has to do with prions that act as a bistable latch.

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