The Coming Revolution of Steve Fodor

On a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry, in Chicago

Stephen Fodor, PhD

Steve Fodor has a PhD in chemistry, an MS in biochemistry, and a BS in biology.  I'm not sure exactly what he was referring to in the quote above, but it was one of a series on evolution at the Museum of Science and Industry.  I'm sure, too, that the revolution is biotechnology-related.  

In 1993, Dr. Fodor co-founded Affymetrix, where the chip technology has been used to synthesize many varieties of high-density oligonucleotide arrays containing hundreds of thousands of DNA probes. These DNA chips have broad commercial applications and are now used in many areas of basic and clinical research, including the detection of drug resistance mutations in infectious organisms, direct DNA sequence comparison of large segments of the human genome, the monitoring of multiple human genes for cancer associated mutations, the quantitative and parallel measurement of mRNA expression for thousands of human genes, and the physical and genetic mapping of the human genome.

Reference:  Stephen P.A. Fodor, Ph.D.

Fodor is a scientist, inventor and entrepreneur, who has an dizzying array of awards, so clearly he is an accomplished man.  This article serves as a bookmark on him and his oeuvre, as I work on Theory of Algorithms and The Core Algorithm.