Access
This article is part of Nature's premium content.
Published online 13 February 2008 | Nature 451, 763-765 (2008) | doi:10.1038/451763a
News Feature
Profile: Meet Exhibit I
George Church has made a name for himself as an 'information exhibitionist'. Erika Check Hayden explores how the technological sage is turning his gaze to the next horizon - you.
One day in the 1980s, while a graduate student at Harvard University, George Church decided to change the way he saw the world. He started with simple tools — scissors, cardboard, and sticky tape — and he ended up working at his bench with a pair of homemade blinkers affixed to his temples.
To read this story in full you will need to login or make a payment (see right).
Comments
Reader comments are usually moderated after posting. If you find something offensive or inappropriate, you can speed this process by clicking 'Report this comment' (or, if that doesn't work for you, email redesign@nature.com). For more controversial topics, we reserve the right to moderate before comments are published.
Besides his painstaking effort in the area of sequencing, Church's idea of transparency is indeed remarkable. I wish authors, reviewers, and journal editors take a cue and think of freeing each other from confidentiality agreement, so that their decisions, comments, replies, mail exchanges etc. can be posted to the internet by the interested party.