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As well as big famous superstars at Science Foo Camp (scifoo), there is a chance to meet and "geek out" with younger engineers and scientists like Vince Smith, Aaron Schwartz and Vaughan Bell.

On day three of Science Foo Camp (scifoo) biologist Lincoln Stein (picture right) gave a presenation on what he calls "genome voyeurism", using Jim Watsons genome as an example. This session demonsrated the current and future possibilities of individuals having their own DNA sequenced, what has been called "personal genomics".

Some of the most interesting conversations you have at Science Foo Camp (scifoo) are in the corridors, foo bars and even the bus that shuttles between the Googleplex and the hotel...

My boss, Douglas Kell, who has kindly allowed and paid for me to attend Science Foo Camp (scifoo), says to me "tell me what you get up to". So here goes. Scifoo day 1, A chance to meet and around 250 engineers, scientists, philosophers and other odd people from all over the world.

Scifoo is here again, which means I'll be in San Francisco for a bit. If you're going, see you there (don't forget the flowers). If you're not going, but would like to meet up somewhere in the Bay Area (Thursday 2nd or Sunday/Monday 5th/6th) send an email to duncan.hull \ate\ cs.man.ac.uk .

Tom Oinn, lead developer of the Open Source Taverna toolkit, has posted some (quite bad) pictures from SciFoo (Science Friends Of O'Reilly), which might be of interest. Some (much better) pictures of this Scifoo at the Googleplex can be found on Flickr.

I am back in Heidelberg after the weekend in the Googleplex in the Science Foo Camp. I missed the introduction to the meeting due to flight delays but you can read about it here and here. The schedule was set up on a board where anyone could write in a talk on one of the slots. There where up to 14 small and big rooms available at any time for anyone to set up a discussion.