Computing Industry Colloquium Series, Talk#3: RSVP early!
Come and attend the talk by Dr. Mike Doyle titled "The Visible Embryo Project: Following the connections from chick embryos to Bitcoin."
Where: DCIH 445, 333 Michigan St NE, Grand Rapids, MI. (Visitor parking permits with directions will be emailed to all non-GVSU attendees)
When: December 2nd, 2022, 3PM - 4PM (The door is always open, so you are free to come in anytime to attend the talk :) )
Refreshments: Light refreshments will be provided at 2:30pm. Come early and socialize/network.
Talk Title: The Visible Embryo Project: Following the connections from chick embryos to Bitcoin.
Talk Abstract: Dr. Doyle will be discussing how a project created to help researchers in developmental biology led to several spin off technologies that changed the world, including the cloud, spatial biology, Web security, and the first distributed blockchain system.
Speaker Bio: Dr. Michael Doyle is the creator of fundamental technologies that underlie such revolutionary products as the Cloud, blockchain/cryptocurrency systems, spatial transcriptomics, and mobile intelligent assistants. Dr. Doyle received his PhD from the Department of Cell & Structural Biology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He then served as Director of the UIC Biomedical Visualization Laboratory from 1989 to 1993. While on sabbatical at UIUC working with Dr. Paul Lauterbur (2003 Nobel Laureate) on the application of micro-MRI techniques to embryo imaging, Dr. Doyle created the Visible Embryo Project (VEP), a multi-institutional collaboration to create a national online "metacenter" computational and information resource on early human development. Prior to founding Eolas Technologies Inc. in 1994, Dr. Doyle served as Director for the Center for Knowledge Management at the University of California, San Francisco. While at UCSF Medical Center, in 1993, Dr. Doyle led a research team that, while working on the VEP, developed the fundamental web technologies which enabled Web browsers for the first time to act as platforms for fully-interactive embedded applications, in the process pioneering revolutionary Web technologies such as streaming media and cloud computing. To assist the University of California in commercializing the related patents, Dr. Doyle founded Eolas, where he is the architect of the company's research and development efforts, generating over $250 million dollars in research revenue since 2008, including over $50 million in patent royalties for the University of California System. His 1995 invention of code signing has become the worldwide defacto standard for securing executable Web content. His work in high-performance biological computing pioneered the important new field of spatial transcriptomics. His creation of transient-key cryptography in the late 1990s repre- sented the first forward-signature distributed-blockchain system, enabling the later creation of the Bit- coin system, and has been adopted in the x9.95 ANSI National Standard for secure timestamps. And, his co-invention of the Skybot mobile intelligent chatbot system in 2005 pioneered the mobile intelligent- assistant product category that is now ubiquitous worldwide.
Point of contact: email Rahat Rafiq ( rafiqr@gvsu.edu ) if you have any queries.
