Larry Smarr

Can you coordinate the dance of your body's 100 trillion microorganisms?

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About Larry Smarr

Larry Smarr is the founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), a UC San Diego/UC Irvine partnership, and holds the Harry E. Gruber professorship in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) of UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering. At Calit2, he has continued to drive major developments in information infrastructure-- including the Internet, Web, scientific visualization, virtual reality, and global telepresence--begun during his previous 15 years as founding Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).

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Astrophysicist turned computer programmer Larry Smarr talks about how charting his bodily inputs and outputs in minute detail revealed the true ecology of the quantified self.

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