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Alex Dimakis Wins Award on Data Storage

Alex Dimakis of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering received the 2010 IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC) Technical Committee on Data Storage Best Paper Award. The paper, entitled “Network Coding for Distributed Storage Systems”, was a collaboration between Dimakis, P. Brighten Godfrey, Yunnan Wu, Martin J. Wainwright, and Kannan Ramchandran. It appeared in the September [...]

Harvard Scientist Antonis Rochas Discovers Direct Gene Transfer

A new discovery made by a Greek scientist, suggests that genes can jump directly from one kind of fungus to another, without the need of evolutionary stages of any kind. The discovery comes as a huge surprise since the so called ‘horizontal gene transfer’, that is the direct transfer of genes, is extremely rare. The [...]

Dr. Aris Patrinos: “I Hope We Won’t Create Artificial Human Life”

The Greek Scientist behind the creation of the first synthetic bacterial cell talks exclusively to Greek Reporter about the benefits of this new discovery.

Nicholas Christakis is The Most Influential Greek American of 2009

Nicholas Christakis, a Greek American physician and professor at Harvard is in the list of the 100 most influential people of TIME magazine for 2009.  Christakis’ new study suggests that happiness is contagious. “Using data from a study that tracked about 5,000 people over 20 years, he suggests that happiness, like the flu, can spread [...]