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The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine
The "Big Wall" is a tiled display of LCDs spanning the length of a room in Atkinson Hall at the University of California, San Diego.
Credit: James Temple/re/code
Computer scientist Larry Smarr is standing in front of the "Big Wall."
The tiled display of LCDs spans the length of a room in Atkinson Hall, a modern glass-and-steel structure on the University of California, San Diego’s palm-covered campus.
Cast across the screens are Smarr’s insides, or at least the closest you can get when breaking down the microbiology of a human body into data. There are some 150 variables in boxes color coded against their divergence from the norm: There’s magnesium in green, lysosome in yellow and lactoferrin in red.
That one’s trouble.
From "The Quantified Computer Scientist: Larry Smarr on the Future of Medicine"
re/code (03/08/14) James Temple
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