Larry Moran has made a very depressing post on all the creationists that are at my school. It’s sad how many there are, really. Check this:
David K.Y. Chiu is Professor of Computing and Information Science and Professor of Biophysics Interdepartmental Group. He has a Ph.D. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo (Canada).
Professor Chiu is head of the Pattern Learning Research Group. Most of his recent papers have to do with recognizing patterns in bioinformatics data.
Durston, K.K., D.K.Y. Chiu, D.L. Abel and J.T. Trevors (2007)doi:10.1186/1742-4682-4-47]
Measuring the functional sequence complexity of proteins”, Theoretical Biology and Medical Modelling 4:47. [
Chiu, D.K.Y. and K. Zhang (2007) Biomolecular data analysis: a post-genomic reflection. Biomolecular Engineering, 24:319-320.Chiu, D.K.Y. and Y. Wang (2006) Multipattern consensus regions in multiple aligned protein sequences and their segmentation. EURASIP Journal on Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Vol.2006:1-8.
Ma, P.C.H., K.C.C. Chan, X. Yao and Chiu, D.K.Y. (2006) An evolutionary clustering algorithm for gene expression microarray data analysis. IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation 10:296-314.
Hwang, C., Chiu, D.K.Y. and Sohn, I. (2005) Analysis of exon structure using PCA and ICA of short-time Fourier transform. L. Wang, K. Chen, and Y.S. Ong (Eds.): ICNC LNCS 3611, pp.306-315, 2005, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.(also Second Intern. Conf. on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, joint ICNC’05-FSKD’05, 27-29 Aug. 2005, Changsha, China.)
Durston, K. and Chiu, D.K.Y. (2005) A functional entropy model for biological sequences. in supplementary volume of the journal, Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B, 2005 (also Proc. 4th Intern. Conf. on Engineering Applications and Computational Algorithms), pp.722-725.
Holy moly. I guess Duston is our “big one” and he’s actually the nicest person I’ve ever spoken to. I’m sure once we “got into it” he wouldn’t be so “nice”. But from what I can tell he’s a perfectly awesome guy (almost as awesome as Dr. Shallit… who I have to mention again… was the BEST speaker I’ve ever heard. Seriously.)
I ran into my favorite creationist today, Andrew Middleton - a main player in our “C4C group… I don’t think he likes me very much, and I think he got my university e-mail suspended. LAME. (I sent an e-mail out to his entire mailing list asking them to come out for the Larry Moran event… they didn’t look too highly upon that, apparently. Whoops.)
My worry is that with these creationists getting degrees that soon my school will become a joke in terms of academics - hopefully I graduate and get into a good grad school before then. *sigh*
