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Our profile of DJ Patil, Data Scientist at Greylock Partners. His career includes being a researcher at Los Alamos, a Defense Department fellow, a virtual librarian for Iraq, a web-security architect for eBay, and head of a data team at LinkedIn, where his team created "People You May Know." @font-face { font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular'; src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot'); src: url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.woff') format('woff'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'), url('/sites/all/themes/fc_v1/scripts/mod2011/fckaiser-cond-web-regular-webfont.svg# FCKaiserCondWebRegular') format('svg'); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; } .kaiser, .kaiser a {font-family: 'FCKaiserCondWebRegular', Helvetica, sans-serif !important; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height:1; font-size:40px!important;color:#333!important; text-decoration:underline;} .kaiser a:hover {color:#666!important;} .kaiser {text-decoration:none;font-size:30px!important;} .sidebox {float:right;border:1px solid #e6e6e6;background-color:#fafafa!important;width:200px;padding:5px;margin:0px 0px 10px 10px;} .sidebox a {color:#e80681;font-weight:bold;} .sidebox p {font-size:13px;} .bottombox {background:#f2f2f2;border:1px solid #d8d8d8;padding:15px;} .bottombox img {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:50px;height:50px;padding:6px;} .bottombox a {display:inline-block;vertical-align:middle;width:70px;font-size:12px;line-height:1.2em; color:#e8007e;font-weight:bold;} Photo by Brooke Nipar DJ Patil pulls a two-foot-long metal bar from his backpack .

France Has Self-Driving Cars Too Google doesn't have the monopoly on clever self-driving cars, and now France has joined the fray . Deveoped by research company IFSTTAR and engineers from the ESIGELEC school in Rouen, the machine is a Renault vehicle that's been heavily modified to turn its wheel and operate its pedal controls. The roof is peppered with sensors, including GPS, cameras to monitor around the car and the lanes in front of it and a LIDAR system on the nose to accurately determine the positions of other vehicles and unexpected alerts like a pedestrian.

The Indians are Silicon Valley's most successful immigrants. What have they done right, and what can women and other races learn from them?

Optimists outperform pessimists on the job by as much as 50 percent. Which do you choose to be? When you wake up every day you have two choices

Scientists from IBM and the German Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8 bit) into as few as 96 atoms. A modern hard drive, for comparison, still needs more than half a billion atoms per byte

A three-year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. [More]

On September 11, 2001, Elizabeth A. Phelps stepped outside her apartment in lower Manhattan and noticed a man staring toward the World Trade Center, about two miles away.

UConn declined $890,000 research grants after discovering director of cardiovascular research at the university falsified data

I thought I wasn't ready to hire my first intern. She showed me I was wrong

I thought I wasn't ready to hire my first intern.

I thought I wasn't ready to hire my first intern. She showed me I was wrong. College freshmen used to think about exploring their interests, figuring out their major, or just how to manage their time while carrying a full load of courses and establishing a social life.

I thought I wasn't ready to hire my first intern. She showed me I was wrong.

I thought I wasn't ready to hire my first intern. She showed me I was wrong

(PhysOrg.com) -- Robert Nemiroff and his colleagues at Michigan Technological University will be discussing new constraints on the so-called lumpiness of space-time at this year’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society.