so you have got his foundation, and then you've got the university of california san diego medical diag putting out all these scientists. you have the republican mayor of san diego inviting people in, and the biggest computer company, qualcomm headed by a democrat, and they have spawned 700 more computer companies. and san diego, why? because you have the government, the nonprofit sector, and the business is sector working together to do this. orlando has 100 computer simulation companies, why? disney world, universal theme park, they need those computer simulators. the global ent tainted. arch video game, anybody that has ever been like me hooked on a video game knows that you have to have good simulation to keep yourself in a constant state of anxiety... and wait a minute, and the defense department and nasa and they all put money in there together and the university of central florida has 63,000 students, they feed them in. why are they doing that? because when they work together, they are so much more powerful than when they sit around and fight all the time. what is the result, 100

. >> i'm terry gaasterland, and i'm a professor of computational biology at university of california-san diego. i am in the marine biology department, and i have collaborators in new york and i have collaborators here in oregon. you can think of dna in many different ways. if you're a computer scientist, you can think of it as ones and zeroes or you can think of it as four letters: a, c, g, and t. if you're a biologist, you think of dna as a long, complex molecule that is made of each of the compounds that a, c, g, and t represent. a genome is the specific bundle of dna that's in a particular cell. so we can think of dna as being paragraphs, words, sentences, where a genome would be the specific book that is you. dna sequencing is the process of trying to read the letters that are in the book. so sequencing is the process of fragmenting that dna into little tiny pieces and reading a little bit of each of the fragments. and now you've got all these 500-, 700-letter words and you need to fit them all back together. early on, when people started trying to sequence genomes, people came up with the

entrepreneur and underwater kinetics which he started forty one years ago as a software at the university of california san diego elon holds over fifty patents .

and distinguished professor, emeritus at scripps institution of oceanography at the university of california at san diego. and mr. jim maser, president of pratt and whitney rocketdyne, a company that does a lot of things, i did also specializes in rocket propulsion technologies. and so i want to welcome all of you here today. would you all, dr. grunsfeld, which you like to introduce your team? >> certainly. i will introduce to my left dr. li, and he will work from there. but i just want to make a quick opening comment. first of all, thank you very much, senator nelson, for inviting us here because this is a spectacular result that we have a successful landing of curiosity on the surface of mars. my hopes and dreams for this mission were that even just the seven minutes of terribly after successful landing would be a significant for kids today as neil armstrong landed on the moon, of america's landing on the moon was for me. that led me into science and study math and eventually to become an astronaut, and now an associate administrator at nasa. those famous words of president kennedy said, we do these th