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Larry Smarr, Director California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology

This week, hosts Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Larry Smarr, Founding Director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. A physicist and computer scientist, Dr. Smarr discusses his pioneering research in the “quantified self” movement, outlining efforts to quantify all of his genomic and biomedical information to discover new ways to predict and prevent human disease.

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