Research Diary

For the longest time I am waiting for someone to create an USB key format network adapter that has builtin firewall, antivirus and VPN software and is activated by fingerprint authentication. For corporations this kind of device would help a lot with edge control and also help preventing outbreaks when non-corporate devices are attached to [...]

Check out the new pictures of Lara. Picture were taken a day before she turned 2.
 

Finally found some time and upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. No major changes on the front-end but the back-end has been definitely improved. I am planning to add some more plugins for PicasaWeb and RSS feeds in the next couple of weeks.

Okay everybody is talking about Biofuels. All big companies are investing in biofuels. Some do it to look nice and use it as a PR stunt (most oil companies), knowing that the current attempts will not even make a dent in their market share or profits, some others do it because it might be profitable [...]

Tidbits from behavioral economics: What counts as a gain or a loss is relative to prior prices, not considered as independent of an investor’s attention. A stock acquired at $50 and and acheives a year-end value of $100. A few months into the new year it is sold at $75. While this is objectively a [...]

Operon: A unit of genetic material that functions in a coordinated manner by means of an operator, a promoter, and one or more structural genes that are transcribed together.
Sigma Factor: A sigma factor (σ factor) is a prokaryotic transcription initiation factor that must be part of RNA polymerase (RNAP) for specific binding to promoter sites [...]

It has been a while since I could post something here. Life has been busy and I was working on some ideas. At MIT I am working on some scoring algorithms to rank Antimicrobial Peptides to design strong ones later. For the timeseries prediction project I was developing some framework ideas that I will start [...]

After a move and machine setup I am back again. I am planning to post more often than before after most probably mid September. I am working on two projects both related to pattern recognition. More to follow soon. I am also moving most of my pictures to Picasa Web. Once the move is completed [...]

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