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The entire University of Washington is being wired for Wi-Fi, as well as the adjacent University District, Capitol Hill, Fremont, Ballard, Queen Anne, and Downtown.

If we're all going to die from Wi-Fi, well, then bring it on! is all I can say.

part A is totally off the wall. We have no idea how a FTL drive would work...

STOP! Two words: PRIOR ART http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw81.html http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw75.html Read the article, as published in Analog Magazine some 10 years ago.

part A is totally off the wall. We have no idea how a FTL drive would work...

STOP! Two words: PRIOR ART http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw81.html http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw75.html Read the article, as published in Analog Magazine some 10 years ago.

Don't get me wrong; I'm sure it is above board, and from all I see it's good people running the place.

But this is rather like the issue of software licensing. You can have a great group of people doing wonderful work, and you know they will share the work right back with the community.

True, but in the end we come back to the scientific dilemma of sharing code (open source) and information (public research science).

Anyone can file a patent, but it's a lot harder to do so if there's prior art - and when you help an open project like what the Baker Lab does, there's a much greater chance that that will create prior art, and hence not lead to restrictive patents.

David's a nice guy. He runs a good lab, and they do good work that a lot of other good scientists use, but I can't guarantee anything since he's not me.

But, on the other hand, you could just send him an email or phone him, he's in the online directory of staff, students, and faculty. Just look up David Baker and send him an email or click on the entry and get his full mailing address, UW mail stop, and phone/fax - I'm sure he'd be glad to answer questions directly (naturally, since he's the PI of the Lab, and has a teaching load of a Professor as well, ...).

Maybe he can clarify it further.

It seems there are other things which use the term "Ratopolis", too, and I never did zero in on it after several minutes of talking to Google, but here are a few pages which reference it, for anyone interested. It will require searching the pages:

fairgren.com

phoenyx.net

css.washington.edu

Apparently it's a 16mm film from 1978, so maybe it's not surprising that it's a little hard to find.

Seeing as some one else posted voltron getting served, wake me up when they make transformers breakdance

Somebody should start a news site that takes all the top news stories, finds the original research or primary source, and links to that instead of the dumbed-down yet sensationalistic news wire blurbs and blog whores. I know I'd appreciate it.

The link to washington.com is a much much clearer discussion of this new rule. Again: http://www.lctjournal.washington.edu/Vol2/a008Stre ge.html

The submitted article is extremely poor at discussing the background and motivation.

Apparently, this rule boils down to the technicalities of who is considered an "Applicant" for a job.

1) Just because a company searches a database of resumes does not make the returned resumes "Applicants". So the company doesn't have to track all the resumes to report to the gov't. If you post a job and people respond, then those have to be tracked.

2) If you apply through some non-standard means, e.g. email instead of website, then companies don't have to retain your resume. This allows companies to rely on an automated process for reporting purposes. If I send my resume by homing pigeon on a napkin, then they don't have to track that.

3) Simply posting your resume online doesn't qualify you as an "Applicant" to the thousands of jobs out there. Clearly this makes sense. You must show active interest IN A PARTICULAR JOB, not just general interest in all available jobs.

HR people actually want even tighter restrictions on who is considered an "Applicant" because they don't want to track all of this spurious information. Less tracking, the easier their lives. Of course, they would prefer that no internet resumes would be considered "Applicants", but that's precisely the problem this rule is meant to address.

So clearly, this is just a rule to help reduce record keeping when the EEOC tries to enforce its broader record keeping mandate. Not a rule that makes it that much harder to apply for a job.

I didn't see any mention of the "Must meet all requirements" paranoia.

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This Annie person ought to be fired, IMO.

Seems like you'd enjoy reading up on Personal Rapid Transit. The hypothesized system would have no wait times for a vehicle, show up right at the door to your office (assuming big office = station).

http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/prtquick. htm

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/papers/ spycrawler.pdf

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/papers/ spycrawler.pdf

For comparison, we also crawled and examined the new set of 45,000 URLs that we generated in October. During this crawl, both browser configurations observed a significantly lower number of drive-by download attacks than we found in May. For example, in May, 5.9% of the crawled URLs performed cfg y attacks and 1.2% of sites performed cfg n attacks; in October, these percentages dropped to 0.4% and 0.6%, respectively.

We also examined whether the Firefox browser was susceptible to drive-by installations. We found that only 0.08% of examined URLs performed a drive-by download installation, but all of these required user consent in order to succeed. We found no drive-by attacks that exploited vulnerabilities in Firefox.

Basically what they did was see spyware that was installed by just visiting the website, with firefox no spyware was installed without any user interaction, and only 36 pieces got installed after the user agreed to it. This is from a sampling of 45,000 sites.

On IE, in October, 180 sites installed spyware with no user interaction, and 270 installed spyware with user interaction.

One of many reasons I use firefox.

Here is the actuall paper[PDF], at the University of Washington website.

I tracked it down because I was wondering if malicious cookies were concidered malware in the 1 in 62 statistic, which would make it not so surprizing. I actually found that the metric they were using was much more limited the blurb suggestests. The number of sites merely distributing spyware was actually 1 in 20. The 1 in 62 statistic refered to sites that went further and used drive-by infection techniques, ie sites that used a flaw in the browser to modify files or registry items when you visited the site! See section 4, starting on page 9 for detailed methodology.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gribble/papers/ spycrawler.pdf

When he gave the talk at UW, I believe his argument was that a technique like this would increase the incentive to drive the image sensor resolutions up beyond what would otherwise be practical, and that Moore's law would take care of the loss of resolution quickly.

It's too bad his talk isn't available online. His was one of the few that wasn't recorded for on-demand streaming over the Internet.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/cjayant/finalpr oject/0-paper.html maybe it works along these lines, because there is a bit of depth information, it can kinda-sorta of be reconstructed- but not to any extent where it would be useful (as far as i can see)

Ahhh, no.

A "Low-Level format" refers to that actual creation of sectors on a drive, literally creating order from the chaos of a bare metal platter. Many years ago, like in the years of "megabyte" sized drives, companies offered tools that would allow you to go through the and "reformat" the drive, rewriting the sectors and tracks as had been done at the factory, usually in an effort to try and cure bad sectors. The formats seldom did much good, and since there was a good chance you'd fubar the drive, companies just quit offering the tools.

A zero-write pass writes 0's to all sectors on the drive, and is a nice way for the paranoid to make sure that there's very little chance of data surviving. For the ultra paranoid there's Autoclave which has sadly been EOL'd by it's creator. This and similar utilities allow you to do numerous passes writing all sorts of random and non-random data

A normal, quick format just marks all sectors (normal sectors anyway) on the drive as being available for use.

I've never seen spyware or viruses survive even a quick format (or an fdisk /mbr in the case of boot sector viruses.) I guess in theory it's still there, but if nothing knows to look at that point for that data, why worry?

That we only use 10% of our brain is a myth. There are many more articles out there but the 10% thing is just an urban legend.

I understand that some people would like to see more than one 'theory' taught (the old 'teach the controversy' BS), but displaying the results in this manner is misleading in the extreme.

The guy quoted from http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/av_index.html, which claims to be "The Alternate View" columns of John G. Cramer are short (~2,000 word) essays about cutting-edge science. They are aimed at readers (and writers) of "hard" science fiction, as exemplified by the SF stories of Analog, but are about real science, usually physics or astronomy. These columns are published bimonthly in Analog Science Fiction & Fact Magazine.

This is a far cry from a science fiction magazine.

I am not suggesting the magazine knows wtf they are talking about, but at least if you are going to dismiss the quote, you give a valid reason for it.

"ButFTL acceleration is not impossible. It is completely meaningless as it simply violates causality. If FTL accn is possible, then our entire understanding of physics is almost completely wrong, and there is ample tangible evidence to suggest that is not so."

I wouldn't say that. What about Quatum tunneling?

http://www.npl.washington.edu/AV/altvw75.html

"In particular, Aichmann and Nimtz have recently transmitted Mozart's 40th Symphony as frequency modulated microwaves through an 11.4 cm length of barrier wave guide at an FTL group velocity of 4.7 c, receiving audibly recognizable music from the microwave photons that survived their barrier passage. The transit time through the barrier was about 81 picoseconds and was observed to be constant for barriers with widths varying from 4.0 cm to 11.4 cm."

You know, you might just get what you ask for.

I think you're thinking of the number of synapses. The number of neurons is more like 100 billion. link

First off, don't waste your money on this, unless you want to be disappointed. Not much information was given in the article, but assumming the dimmensions are correct, and the 105 inch virtual size screen they are discussing is the diagonal measurement, and assumming a 4:3 screen ratio (likely), a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation (which I admit I could be wrong in, but I don't think so) shows that the view frustum from the eyeball (at 12 feet) results in 32 degree horizontal field-of-view (FOV), and the 20 degree vertical FOV. With a 640x480 VGA LCD (I assume this is what they are using - someone mentioned it, and it seems reasonable), that is 20 pixels per degree visual acuity! Even if they were using an 800x600 SVGA LCD (doubtful), it would still be 25 pixels per degree. I am not going to do the calculations for it (check this PDF here if you want to try), but I know from past experience and reading that this is way worse than "legally blind".

The image this thing displays is probably watchable, if you like viewing through a "toilet paper tube", but it probably won't work well for any textual output (unless the letters are really big), nor will it work for any form of immersion (not a large enough FOV, by far). Augmented reality is mostly out, too, due to both of these issues. Of course, none of these uses are what it is designed for, but every time something like this comes up, I always expect more...

I don't know why - I guess I just expect that since prices have come down on everything else, and quality up, that HMDs and similar devices should somehow follow suit. The parts and design haven't changed much in the past 10+ years. For over $500.00, but under $1000.00 - I expect to be able to get at least 800x600 SVGA at 45 degree horizontal FOV (in a full-size HMD). The VictorMaxx CyberMaxx (NOT the StuntMaster) HMD in the mid-1990's had 640x480 resolution at 51 degrees horizontal FOV, and was priced around $800.00.

I guess I am just expecting way too much. I had hoped that by today we would be much further along than we seem to be in the whole virtual environment playground. I started playing around with this stuff back in 1993 with a hacked StuntMaster and PowerGlove hooked up to my Amiga 1200. Later, I moved to a PC and Rend386. It seemed like everyone was on the verge of virtual reality and the like being "the next big thing", then commercial internet usage came along and seemingly blew it out of the water. Films like Lawnmower Man, while fun to watch, didn't help, because the public's expectations were made higher than what the technology could deliver. Today, we have the rendering engines on everyone's desks (and consoles) to deliver the content needed at desired framerates - any current FPS is proof of that. What we don't have are the I/O devices to immerse the player. Sadly, only a very small minority of players even seem to want full immersion. I have no idea why this is so. I can only speculate that the people who could afford it today remember the poor results of yesterday, and don't adopt it. That, or it is a chicken and egg problem, whereby they don't realize how fun it is to actually be in the game versus watching the game as it progresses. The thing I really don't understand, despite the fact that there are plenty of case-modders, hardware hackers, and an entire internet, is that there doesn't seem to be anybody out there homebrewing their own HMDs from COTS parts. Why is this? Is can't be because the knowleddge has nearly disappeared from the homebrew scene (PCVR Magazine, sadly, is no more) - it certainly hasn't stopped the number of people homebrewing their own video projectors. So, why?

Am I

But dirt isn't a liquid"

Ahh... but it can be: http://www.ce.washington.edu/~liquefaction/html/ma in.html

The more I understand, the less I really know. Science has this nasty habit of taking things that make perfect sense, "dirt is a solid", and turn that sense on its head. Eventually, I think scientific advances will bring us all back to the philosophical perspective, "all things are one".

I'm from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, and it's pretty clear from a historical point of view that the Sioux came from Wisconson and Minnesota around 1700 and likely didn't see the "sacred" Black Hills until 1770 or so, however that doesn't stop the folks from claiming they were formed in the Black Hills and that anything else is a lie.

Likewise, the mess with Kennewick Man stems from this defense of religion over science by the Federal Government.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:S.536.R S:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennewick_man
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/kman/default .htm

Some people commenting on this thread will find the transactional theory of quantum mechanics (powerpoint) of interest. (Less clear cut paper in HTML here).

In my opinion, this is the most reasonable, extant interpretation. From my perspective, it says that the paradoxes of QM are perceptual, arising from our perception of time as entirely forward moving. If waves move backwards in time (as in the transactional theory), everything makes sense, though it won't appear to make sense to us.

Some people commenting on this thread will find the transactional theory of quantum mechanics (powerpoint) of interest. (Less clear cut paper in HTML here).

In my opinion, this is the most reasonable, extant interpretation. From my perspective, it says that the paradoxes of QM are perceptual, arising from our perception of time as entirely forward moving. If waves move backwards in time (as in the transactional theory), everything makes sense, though it won't appear to make sense to us.

"On the Brain of a Scientist: Albert Einstein": These scientists counted the number of neurons (nerve cells) and glial cells in four areas of Einstein's brain: area 9 of the cerebral cortex on the right and left hemisphere and area 39 of the cerebral cortex on the right and left hemisphere. Area 9 is located in the frontal lobe (prefrontal cortex) and is thought to be important for planning behavior, attention and memory. Area 39 is located in the parietal lobe and is part of the "association cortex." Area 39 is thought to be involved with language and several other complex functions. The ratios of neurons to glial cells in Einstein's brain were compared to those from the brains of 11 men who died at the average age of 64. ...there were more glial cells for every neuron in Einstein's brain. Interesting book, might pick it up.

I guess I'll bite.

Tsunami warning systems give many affected areas hours, yes hours, of warning. Plenty of time to save most people in most areas.

Large earthquake in Chile in 1960, wiped out most of Hilo, Hawaii 14.8 hours later. (http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/general /historic/chilean60.html)
Only a fool would not see the value in having an effective warning system for that.

In fact, tsunami warning systems are one of the most effective natural disaster mitigation systems we use. If you're going to complain, try earthquake warning systems that are trying to give you 30 seconds of warning (of course that's enough to shutdown trains and other transit).

Or maybe you're from Kansas and just don't get it.

Several universities and community colleges have programs. I took a certificate program http://www.extension.washington.edu/ext/certificat es/cpf/cpf_gen.asp/ I highly recommend.

Law Enforcement in some states will allow civilians to volunteer time assisting with some types of cases. You might be able to help a police officer and get training.

Many of the forensics software vendors offer training. This is tool-specific and wouldn't emphasise the legal context as much.

SANS also has a training program. I have reviewed a few of the materials and it gets very technically detailed, but it might be slightly lacking in the areas of working with lawyers and the legal process.

We're an Army-sponsored engineering research group that already worries about this. Just take a look at the China Journal of System Simulation for an amazing look at China's emerging technological dominance.

URL: http://www.china-simulation.com/esite/preview/05-0 5.htm
Graphic: http://courses.washington.edu/goodall/MRFM/whats_n ew_0035.html

As the graphic says, "open strategic advantage (OSA) strategies are easy to understand, impossible to stop, and yield global strategic advantages". Or as China's books on business strategy say: "Deceive the sky, to cross the ocean."

There's not much doubt that the US is being seriously out-performed by China in system engineering (http://courses.washington.edu/goodall/MRFM/whats_ new.html#n0036). As the web page shows, most of the peer-reviewed articles in system engineering are now written in Mandarin, not English.

This is a new phenomenon: it began about five years ago. And the number of such articles is increasing by about 30 percent per year.

Graphic here: http://courses.washington.edu/goodall/MRFM/pg_0035 .png

There's not much doubt that the US is being seriously out-performed by China in system engineering (http://courses.washington.edu/goodall/MRFM/whats_ new.html#n0036). As the web page shows, most of the peer-reviewed articles in system engineering are now written in Mandarin, not English.

This is a new phenomenon: it began about five years ago. And the number of such articles is increasing by about 30 percent per year.

Graphic here: http://courses.washington.edu/goodall/MRFM/pg_0035 .png

Unless you work for a company that is publicly listed, since SEC regulations call for the permanent archiving (on "non-editable" media) of all electronic communications.

Thanks for giving me hope. Note that the submitter, according to his resume is a church volunteer, so perhaps that dashes some hopes about religion or somesuch serving as wardens against moral bankruptcy.

Upon closer inspection, You are wrong, here's the frontpage link:
http://www.science-groove.org/Now/

and here's the link I extracted the mp3's from:
http://faculty.washington.edu/crowther/Misc/Songs/ music.shtml

The second link is his own webpage at uwash while the first is a compilation of his cd records.

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

29 Reasons

3.14159/Pi Joel Tetreault and Dan Vitek

Building A Histidine Jessica Raaum

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain) Sam Reid

Come On Down (The Electron Transport Chain)

Erica Joel Tetreault

Glucose, Glucose

Hooray For NMR Spectroscopy!

Myofibrils

Necessary But Not Sufficient

The Nucleus I Like Best

Organic Chemistry Eric Chase and Gregorio del Laboratorio

Oxidative Phosphorylation

The Phantom

The Professor And The Punk Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

Take Me To The Liver Gregorio del Laboratorio and Do Peterson

That's What Slugs Are For Jessica Raaum

Twinkle, Twinkle, T2*

The Waltz Of The Ribosomes Gregorio del Laboratorio

Here's a great example of some "sweet" trademarkage: the color brown

D'oh.

Rosetta@Home has a policy on this matter just as good as Folding@home.

What they are trying to develop here is a version of the Rosetta software that can be effectively used to predict the outcome of protein folding. This software is, and will remain, FREE for use by any non-profit institution. You can read the PDF with the academic licensing agreement any institution has to sign right here.
http://depts.washington.edu/ventures/UW_Technology /Express_Licenses/Rosetta/Rosetta++EX.pdf

The key stipulation of the agreement is anyone using the software with that license has to make the data they obtain freely available for nonprofit purposes to other organizations. Basically its extremely similar to an open source license.

There is also a commercial license option. Basically what this allows a commercial research entity to pay a license fee to the University of Washington and not be forced to make the data they obtain available for use by anyone else. You can read the PDF for the commercial license at this link.
http://depts.washington.edu/ventures/UW_Technology /Express_Licenses/Rosetta/Rosetta++EX.pdf

This allows commercial entities to use this software to develop medical cures to diseases. Without such a stipulation far fewer groups would have the option of using the software. Making the software available for use by commercial entities should also make drug development costs lower than they would be otherwise, either making the end cost of the druge cheaper, or making it possible for companies to develop drugs for which they otherwise couldn't justify the research costs. The license fees go back to the University of Washington, hopefully with part of the money going back to The Baker Laboratory, which is the part of the University of Washington involved with this area of research, so they can reform additional research in this area. Just to be clear, both the The Baker Laboratory and The University of Washington are both non-profit institutions.

Essentially all the data from this project is going to get published and released publicly as far as teh results are concerned, and any academic or nonprofit institution can have full access to the software developed as long as they agree to share the results publicly to be used by any nonprofit institution that wants to use it.

Rosetta@Home has a policy on this matter just as good as Folding@home.

What they are trying to develop here is a version of the Rosetta software that can be effectively used to predict the outcome of protein folding. This software is, and will remain, FREE for use by any non-profit institution. You can read the PDF with the academic licensing agreement any institution has to sign right here.
http://depts.washington.edu/ventures/UW_Technology /Express_Licenses/Rosetta/Rosetta++EX.pdf

The key stipulation of the agreement is anyone using the software with that license has to make the data they obtain freely available for nonprofit purposes to other organizations. Basically its extremely similar to an open source license.

There is also a commercial license option. Basically what this allows a commercial research entity to pay a license fee to the University of Washington and not be forced to make the data they obtain available for use by anyone else. You can read the PDF for the commercial license at this link.
http://depts.washington.edu/ventures/UW_Technology /Express_Licenses/Rosetta/Rosetta++EX.pdf

This allows commercial entities to use this software to develop medical cures to diseases. Without such a stipulation far fewer groups would have the option of using the software. Making the software available for use by commercial entities should also make drug development costs lower than they would be otherwise, either making the end cost of the druge cheaper, or making it possible for companies to develop drugs for which they otherwise couldn't justify the research costs. The license fees go back to the University of Washington, hopefully with part of the money going back to The Baker Laboratory, which is the part of the University of Washington involved with this area of research, so they can reform additional research in this area. Just to be clear, both the The Baker Laboratory and The University of Washington are both non-profit institutions.

Essentially all the data from this project is going to get published and released publicly as far as teh results are concerned, and any academic or nonprofit institution can have full access to the software developed as long as they agree to share the results publicly to be used by any nonprofit institution that wants to use it.

Disclaimer: I'm a student in David's lab. But that doesn't mean that I'm wrong, or mindlessly plugging my own Kool-Aid. :) I really believe that Dr. Baker and his lab have a strong chance to solve the protein folding prediction problem.

Whatever project you choose to donate your cycles to in the end, protein science is a cool field with far-reaching implications for humans in general, and the scientists in the field really appreciate your cycles. Thanks to all those who are donating and will donate in the future.