Dan David Prize

COMING UP November 30, 2015 - Deadline for submission of NOMINATIONS February, 2016 - ANNOUNCEMENT OF LAUREATES www.dandavid.prize

.@Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, in Israel to get @DanDavidPrize: Sharing information makes us stronger http://htz.li/2su  @telavivuni1

Portelli: "#DIversity is good for #biology and #culture. In Oral History - every person has a different story." #DDPrize15

Chothia: "we assume influence on #Genome. We were playing around with things - could be disastrous and some chance of #success." #DDPrize15

Brown: "Every person who was born under supressing regimes knows hunger for knowledge". #DDPrize15 #Freedom #Information #Revolution

Portelli's supporting vibrant Um-Elfahem #Arab #Palestinian #youth center. Retrieving the community memory through oral history & music.

Prof. Brown: "#ISIS is taking us chillingly by surprise - they work to erase the past, which has to be retrieved to be saved." #DDPrize15

Prof. Alessandro Portelli: "#Speech was the first #information #revolution". #DDPrize15

@ us to ask questions in the event: http://bit.ly/1HpqBON  @DanDavidPrize #DDPrize15

"The sharing of information and making it public is a tool to change the world" - Noam Bar-Levi, manager of Maze 9. #DDPrize15

Liad Mudrik (Moderator) presenting Prof. Portelli as the leading oral historian. Portelli: "There are only 3-4 of us". #DDPrize15

the last event in the series of the 2015 Dan David Prize Award is about to begin: http://bit.ly/1HpqBON  #DDPrize15 @telavivuni1

Prof. Peter R. Brown: "Texts are dangerous - they are there to CLOSE dialogues". #DDPrize15 #OralHistory #Philology #Research

Portelli: Turn established narratives on head. History evolves - learning what the past means to us TODAY. #DDPrize15

Portelli: "Can we trust ourself in the face of 'otherness'? Interviewing is a matter of relationships and gapping differences". #DDPrize15

Prof. Portelli: "Oral #History Sources might be debatable, but why are people tell certain stories might be even more important." #DDPrize15

Prof. Brown: http://Syriaca.org  to save culture, history, and literature of Syriac communities from antiquity to the present. #DDPrize15

Prof. Brown: Digitization of ancient scripts from Christianity, Judaism, Islam and others help us save our joint memory. #DDPrize15

Livestream Symposium "Retrieving the Past: Historians and Their Sources" w/ Prof. Portelli & Prof. Brown http://bit.ly/1HpqBON  #DDPrize15

Yossi Vardi @garagegeeks: "@wikipedia drives #doctors crazy. Everyone checks their disease before arrival". #DDPrize15 @jimmy_wales

Direct #link to the @GarageGeeks event with @Jimmy_Wales and Yossi Vardi. Livestreaming: http://bit.ly/1Agwds3 

#DDPrize15 event with @GarageGeeks - @Jimmy_Wales & Yossi Vardi in a special #meetup. Will begin shortly: http://bit.ly/1HpqBON 

Dr. Chothia, Prof. Haussler & Prof. Waterman #DDPrize15 laureates are now handing out the #scholarships in the field of #Bioinformatics.

Mr. @Jimmy_Wales now handing out the #Scholarships in the field of #InformationRevolution. #DDPrize15

The #Scholars are now receiving their #awards in the field of "#Historians and Their Sources". #DDPrize

#DDPrize15 laureates are joining on the stage for the #Scholarship #Award Ceremony. Follow the livestreaming: http://bit.ly/1HpqBON 

You're welcome to join us for the #NameYourHero #Award ceremony presented with the #DDPrize15 laureates. Livestream: http://bit.ly/1HpqBON 

Waterman in #Bioinformatics panel: "Human beings won't stop learning new things." #eduction #human #achievement #knowledge #DDPrize15

#DDPrize15 panel #bioinformatics: DNA Sequencing future - implications still difficult to imagine - #allergies etc. make it more daily use.

Dr Cyrus Chothia "I wanted to learn history, but my mother said I don't know foreign #languages - so I went to learn chemistry." #DDPrize15

"once we win the internal evolutionary race in typical single cancer case that same strategy will work in all future generations" #DDPrize15

#Childhood #Cancer is a rare type, so we started a #network of 21 institutions to share the information. Prof. Haussler #DDPrize15

1 of 300 people will get #cancer before the age of 21. Prof. Haussler #DDPrize15

Prof. David Haussler is up on the podium @ucsc talks "#Odyssey into the #Human #Genome" #DDPrize15

Prof. Waterman predicts at least 10X improvement in #sequencing machines. #computational #biology #DNA #DDPrize15