‘So in 1997, when he and Melinda first ventured into public health—their eponymous foundation would come into being in two years—they focused on birth control, funding a Johns Hopkins effort to use computers to help women in the developing world learn about contraception. The logic was crisp and Bill Gates-friendly. Health = resources ÷ people.’
‘Bill and Melinda Gates grappled with this concept years before forming their foundation, and months before even getting married, on a prewedding 1993 African safari. Their vacation had been planned around watching predators and prey—Darwin in action.’
Bill Gates is changing the world again through another cheap technology--vaccines. Having prevented millions of deaths, he's determined to turn Malthus on his head by solving the global population problem.
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‘In 1912, Leonard Darwin, son of naturalist Charles Darwin, held the First International Congress of Eugenics in London. More than three hundred people from England, Europe, and the US attended his conference. The growing support for eugenics in the next decade prompted the Eugenics Record Office of Cold Spring Harbor and the American Museum of Natural History to sponsor the 1921 Second International Congress of Eugenics in New York, New York. Scientist Alexander G. Bell served as honorary president. During the Second International Congress of Eugenics, Irving Fisher from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, proposed the American Eugenics Society.’
The American Eugenics Society (AES) was established in the US by Madison Grant, Harry H. Laughlin, Henry Crampton, Irving Fisher, and Henry F. Osborn in 1926 to promote eugenics education programs for the US public. The AES described eugenics as the study of improving the genetic composition of...
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‘The Gates Foundation has pledged up to $100 million to develop mRNA-based vaccines for infectious diseases; the first $20 million is being used by Moderna to develop mRNA-based antibody…’
Moderna Therapeutics aims to turn human bodies into factories that make proteins to fight infections and disease like the Zika virus.
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Biotech funded by a computer pro? Seems legit.
‘In 1980, IBM approached Gates, and asked him to help with their personal computer project ( "Bill Gates Biography"). Gates was very interested in this project, but Microsoft has not yet developed an operating system that would run on IBM's new PCs. Gates was able to convince IBM to let Microsoft help out.’
‘In December 2016, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced a partnership with IBM Watson Health to use IBM Watson for Drug Discovery's machine learning platform to help Pfizer's research in immuno-oncology. [1] Pfizer sought to use Watson's machine learning and natural language processing to better identify new drug targets and more ...’
In December 2016, pharmaceutical company Pfizer Inc. announced a partnership with IBM Watson Health to use IBM Watson for Drug Discovery’s machine learning platform to help Pfizer’s research in immuno-oncology. [1] Pfizer sought to use Watson’s machine learning and […]
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Blockchain is a shared, immutable digital ledger, enabling the recording of transactions and the tracking of assets within a business network and providing a single source of truth.
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This SEI Blog post introduces and explains the fundamentals of Bitcoin and Blockchain technology.
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