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Tech-savvy dad launches open-source platform to save children with rare diseases – including his son

GeekWire

He narrowed down the existing pharmaceutical options to 36 drugs. The Linux Foundation is hosting OpenTreatments. But Raghav needed help right away. After Ramesh learned his son’s diagnosis, he began Googling and reading the relevant scientific literature. They have raised $5 million from friends and family to fund the effort.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: And a lot of these systems do not use the familiar Linux Mac Windows operating systems. Occasionally you'll find a you know Windows Embedded you'll find some sort of Linux but these are all usually sandboxed off from the user. So your pharmaceutical plants have clean rooms. They are unto themselves their own things.

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5 recommendations for successfully implementing distributed innovation and shared value

Trends in the Living Networks

Pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly established InnoCentive LLP in order to tap outside talent in its research and development initiatives. Linux and every other successful open source project has had a combination of a good leader or leadership team, and straightforward processes.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Behavioral Biometrics

ForAllSecure

You know something that helps write into the operating system like Windows or Mac or Linux, the accuracy there is might be pretty good. The accuracy of these predictions depends largely on the accuracy of the capture, which is what Justin is talking about. Macorin: So if you capture keyboard activity using an OS hook.