He invited me to attend one of his upcoming seminars, something I was looking forward to doing.
… One goes to a seminar on something that seems very remote from one's theme and suddenly realizes, '..
As he recalls, "There was a seminar or something, and Eric commented that the Illumina sequencers generated so much data that it was often in one's interest to figure out how to translate a [genetic] problem into a sequencing problem, and then it would just be this game-changer".
Have you ever been to a seminar on something like wealth building that was promoted in the newspaper?
Initiatives so far have included the public appearance of plaques and postcards bearing philosophical quotes and questions; hosting and inviting famous foreign philosophers to seminars; and something called a "multimedia philosophy park".
At this point, Microsoft must have developed its own seminar for employees called something like Apologizing With Optimism: How to Persuade People to Give You Another Try.
The seminar itself may be something of an anticlimax, as several press outlets have reported fairly specific rumors that researchers have seen very strong, if not incontrovertible signals of the Higgs, a hypothesized particle that is key to physicists' explanation of how all particles get mass.
In Adaptation, Nic Cage plays a fictionalized version of Charlie Kaufman who, struggling to write his new script, winds up at a McKee seminar in search of something that'll get him through his third act.
It's really interesting, in my seminars my 20-something students all say, 'My mother felt like she had to break with her own mother but I feel like my mother is my strongest ally.' " "It's a question of timing, like most things in life," said Frances Goldscheider, professor of sociology emerita at Brown University.
He added: "I taught the seminar because I felt that something should be done in response to that great loss.
