IDENTIFYING and Counting Cancer Cells with my Theory => Code rather than Volunteers

English: A diagram illustrating the distinction between cancer stem cell targeted and conventional cancer therapies (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The magic of networking was working again: it took the invitation to celebrate 50 years of computing @ CERN to discover this Cancer Research UK project: computer volunteers are invited to identify and count cancer cells.

My Technical Expert Nelson Wootton jumped on this opportunity to ‘prove my theory’.

After 3 funding applications have just been turned down, we now trust ‘under employed professional woman’ Ann Witbrock to turn my latest specifications into code.

Meanwhile, Grandma Got STEM is honouring women like me: always in the minority in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Every person has cancer cells in the body (imabhinavthakur.wordpress.com)
Getting A Grip On Cancer Cells With A Micrscopic Velcro (fastcoexist.com)
Battery of Tests on Cancer Cells Shows Them as ‘squishy,’ Yet Tactically Strong (medindia.net)

WE SHOULD all be Eternal Start-Ups: IC Tomorrow at NESTA – for competition finalists in Education

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Yesterday I saw 12 finalists competing for £40K of ICTomorrow at NESTA. I had ‘failed’ and wanted to learn what the potential winners had to offer.

When I introduced myself as an ‘eternal Start-Up’ to another of the very few ladies, she said “we should all be eternal start-ups”.

It was not very impressive to see existing companies and people who were seemingly commercially successful proposing incremental changes. No room for quantum leaps, paradigm shifts or genuine start-ups. One of the organisers said: the challenge was too prescriptive.

Quite right: a box ticking exercise. That’s how the TSB is ‘driving innovation’… Continue reading →

SMART Knowledge Portals as New Instruments of Investigation – for lifelong learning and education

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Cover of An Intimate History of Humanity

Why is it so rare for me to be understood and believed? Why do more people like my poetry than the potential of my software? When will my idea of Smart Knowledge Portals see the light of day?

In a nutshell, Smart Knowledge Portals (here in 14 slides) are what Alexander von Humboldt described as a new instrument of investigation:

“Humboldt had a horror of the single fact, believing that in order to explore any one thing, one needs to approach it from all sides… Every discovery opens up the imagination further, stimulating more discovery:

it enlarges the sphere of ideas, excites a taste for investigation, while the creation of new instruments of observation increases the intelligence.”

Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History of Humanity, London 1994 Continue reading →

GOOD NEWS: Winning an iPad and Coaching @ IBM

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Who would have thought that CyberHeaven has a gift for me?
Well, I got the phone call, when I was in Germany:

You’ve won an iPad to celebrate 30 years of Conferencing by the Management Forum.

An email confirmed it and the package was delivered on the day I specified! The only ‘price’: a photo of me and the iPad!

As I’m over the moon about this surprise gift, I decided to make this blog post as well.

After all, I have more good news: Friday @ South Bank was a treat again:-

the morning with a small group of Global Entrepreneurs who wanted to learn about making ‘compelling value propositions‘
the afternoon as part of CEO-CF – an interesting Collaborative Forum (CF) very able to help CEOs by mutually empowering each other.

And thus I continue to count my blessings, despite all the odds, e.g. one of my three latest funding applications was refused. But, as my mum said to me in one of my darkest moments:

what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger!

INSTEAD of PROSE: Software-Aided Thinking finds many Expressions

WOMEN in DATA @ the ODI: Big Brother is still watching but…

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Women in Data is one of the many Meetup groups I joined. Their first event took place at the Open Data Institute with two magnificent presentations:

Jeni Tennison, the Technical Director of the Open Data Institute showed us how the ODI plans to help Big Data become Big Opportunities
Jacqui Taylor from Flying Binary gave us a lovely presentation about “Big Brother still watching… but”, i.e. she hopes that ‘Open Anything’ provides: Open Data, Open Tools, Open Government..
well, and here’s Little Sister meeting Big Brother…

Inside View from Ireland: The Value of Open Data (insideview.ie)
Open Data on the Web Workshop April 2013 (okfn.org)
Governments looking for economic ROI must focus on open data … (radar.oreilly.com)
European Data Forum 2013 – your data, our data, Big Data! (brainmachine.mozganostroj.com)
Can we have open data without open access? (oanow.org)
The Open Data Handbook (europa-eu-audience.typepad.com)
Investing in the open data economy (radar.oreilly.com)
The benefits of open data (vancouverobserver.com)
FEB 23 is the OPEN DATA DAY.. (boddhisattvasiddhartha.wordpress.com)

IRONS in the Funding Fire – the Constant Process of Refinement and Wonderment

Dialectical Single-Disciplinary Thinking Merging Domains of Thought
Number Theory	+			Arithmetic			=		Mathematics
Geometry	+			Algebra			=
Linear Measuring						=			Chemistry, Technology Nuclear- and Astro-Physics
3D Cybernetic Inter-Disciplinary Thinking
Number Theory		+	Geometry							=	Foundation for 3D Metrology
Mathematics		+	Physics							=	3D Cybernetics
Cybernetic Numbers		+	Geo-Numerics		+			Arith-Metry		=	Cybernetic Mathematics
Cybernetic Measures		in	macro- and micro-cosmic Dimensions							=	Cybernetic Sciences

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