Inside the Tevatron; the Human-Computer Interface; DNA Computing.

Science Talk

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🗓️ 17 May 2006

⏱️ 32 minutes

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In this episode, Scientific American editor Mark Alpert talks about his trip inside the Tevatron, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the future of the Tevatron, specifically for neutrino research. Scientific American senior writer Wayt Gibbs reports on the recent CHI2006 conference. CHI is for computer human interface, and the conference is the largest annual meeting of computer scientists who study and invent the ways that humans and computers talk to each other. Wayt interviewed Ed Cutrell, from Microsoft Research's Adaptive Systems Interaction Group, and reviews some of the subjects he came across at the meeting. Finally, computer scientist and chemist Ehud Shapiro talks about DNA computers and his article on the subject in the May issue of Scientific American. Plus, test your knowledge about some recent science in the news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.6	Welcome to Science Talk, the podcast of Scientific American for the seven days starting May 17th.
0:55.9	I'm Steve Merski.
1:01.5	On this week's podcast, we're going underground with Scientific American magazine editor Mark Alpert talking about his visit to the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.
1:06.0	Then we'll be talking about computing dry and wet.
1:09.7	Scientific American senior writer Wake Gibbs reports from a conference devoted to the interface
1:14.8	between computers and humans, and Ehud Shapiro from the Whiteman Institute of Science,
1:20.4	talks about computers inhumans, DNA computers.
1:24.3	First up, Mark Alpert.
1:25.9	He's one of Siams physics guys, as you'll hear, they think
1:29.5	climbing inside a particle accelerator beats a trip to Disney World. I spoke to him at his office.
1:35.7	Mark, you were telling me you had an interesting experience last week. Where were you?
1:40.0	Well, I was at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory inside the Tevatron, which is a pretty unique thing to do because usually you can't go inside there because the beam is running and there would be some radioactivity in the tunnel and so they don't let people in.
1:54.7	But the Tevatron was shut down.
1:57.2	Well, back up a bit.
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