May 2009, 30 scientists met for 5 days of intense discussion about synthetic biology under the auspices of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.K. Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council. The scientists—equally split between the United States and the United Kingdom and drawn from several disciplines—assembled into 10 teams and came up with specific research proposals. Each team presented its idea to the larger group, received instant feedback, made revisions, and presented it again—six times in all. By the end of the week, officials from the two government agencies—each of which had agreed to put up $5 million to fund the best ideas—verbally signed off on five of the 10 proposals...
How the Cyberplasm project came about...
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2010-05-18 ~ Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
view >> 9th International Conference on Technology and The Mine Problem
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
2010-09-08 ~
view >> Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Newcastle University
2010-09-09 ~ University of Sussex
view >> Workshop on Synthetic Neuroethology
University of Sussex
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