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...working on Wirehog, the file-sharing offshoot to TheFacebook. McCollum, who helped Zuckerberg create Wirehog, had an internship with Electronic Arts in Redwood City, California. Wirehog’s third founder, Adam D’Angelo, a friend of Zuckerberg’s from high school who now attends CalTech, didn’t want to travel too far from school, but Zuckerberg figured he could bring him up to Palo Alto...
Zuckerberg and D’Angelo eventually got bored with Synapse. They had stopped working on it after D’Angelo left for CalTech and Zuckerberg entered Harvard. And by the time Zuckerberg and D’Angelo decided they were ready to sell, no one wanted...
McCollum says he’d like to return to Harvard next fall, if possible. He points to D’Angelo, a Wirehog cofounder, who returned to Caltech at the end of last summer. He says the team has figured out ways, even if someone leaves, to keep the site going. D’Angelo has managed to continue work on Wirehog, and McCollum might manage to do the same...
...professor Stephen Mayo ran into resistance when they proposed a new approach to fighting disease. They argued that because protein shapes vary according to their functions, it should be possible to create new disease-fighting proteins by first imagining their shape. "You could hear the people at Caltech snicker," says Dahiyat...
Determined to prove the naysayers wrong, Dahiyat went to the supercomputer at Caltech's famed Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "I said, 'Here's the shape I want to make. Tell us the sequence,'" he recalls. By the end of the day, the computer gave him billions of possible amino-acid combinations and recommended the best one. Dahiyat threw that sequence into a small, tunnel-like device. About a minute later, he noticed that the protein was taking form. "I could see it wasn't spaghetti," he says. "I said, 'Oh, my God, we've got structure...