Jeannie's work is creating highly-adopted technology and practices through facilitating user-centered design research and development at the More

Jeannie's work is creating highly-adopted technology and practices through facilitating user-centered design research and development at the intersection of technical and field disciplines. Her biology research background inspires her successful unique approach to technological problems ranging from: disaster management (Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, Disaster Management Initiative), interface/software design for outdoor environments and data processing (BioACT), Human Computer Interaction Group, InfoLab at the Stanford Computer Science Department) to facilitating cost-effective civil engineering designs for multi-million dollar infrastructure projects (Delta Risk Management Strategy, California Department of Water Resources). Recently, she organized CrisisCampSiliconValley March 26-28, 2010, NASA Ames Research Park, which generated requirements and grant-writing teams for improved disaster response in the Bay Area. Jeannie is a Visiting Scientist in the Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley CyMobility Lab Disaster Management Initiative (NASA Ames Research Park, Moffett Field, CA) and Senior Biologist at the civil engineering firm, URS Corporation, Oakland CA. Her awards cross computer science and biology disciplines and include Random Hacks of Kindness hack-a-thon (Tweak the Tweet -- Twitter syntax modifying behavior to get increased and parsable data from the ground), IEEE-ACM Vannevar Bush Best Student Paper, and an NSF Doctoral Dissertation Grant. Jeannie received her PhD <b>...</b>
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In Barrow and Tippler's book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, they list ten steps necessary in the course of human evolution, each of which, is More

In Barrow and Tippler's book The Anthropic Cosmological Principle, they list ten steps necessary in the course of human evolution, each of which, is so improbable that if left to happen by chance alone, the sun would have ceased to be a main sequence star and would have incinerated the earth. They estimate that the odds of the evolution (by chance) of the human genome is somewhere between 4 to the negative 180th power, to the 110,000th power, and 4 to the negative 360th power, to the 110,000th power. Therefore, if evolution did occur, it literally would have been a miracle and evidence for the existence of God. William Lane Craig"Fossil evidence of human evolutionary history is fragmentary and open to various interpretations. Fossil evidence of chimpanzee evolution is absent altogether". Evolutionist Henry Gee, Nature 2001 http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v412/n6843/full/412131a0.html "The australopithecines (Lucy) known over the last several decades from Olduvai and Sterkfontein, Kromdraai and Makapansgat, are now irrevocably removed from a place in a group any closer to humans than to African apes and certainly from any place in a direct human lineage." Charles Oxnard, former professor of anatomy at the University of Southern California Medical School, who subjected australopithecine fossils to extensive computer analysis; http://creationwiki.org/Australopithecines“Dr. Leakey produced a biased reconstruction (of 1470/ Homo Rudolfensis) based on erroneous preconceived expectations of early human appearance that violated principles of craniofacial development,” Dr. Timothy Bromagehttp://www.nyu.edu/public.affairs/pdf/2007_BROMAGE_IADR_1470.pdfThe Truth About Human Origins:Excerpt: "It is practically impossible to determine which "family tree" (for human evolution) one should accept. Richard Leakey (of the famed fossil hunting family from Africa) has proposed one. His late mother, Mary Leakey, proposed another. Donald Johanson, former president of the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California, has proposed yet another. And as late as 2001, Meave Leakey (Richard's wife) has proposed still another.,,"http://books.google.com/books?id=J9pON9yB8HkC&pg=PT28&lpg=PT28A 2004 book by leading evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr stated that "The earliest fossils of Homo, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus, are separated from Australopithecus (Lucy) by a large, unbridged gap. How can we explain this seeming saltation? Not having any fossils that can serve as missing links, we have to fall back on the time-honored method of historical science, the construction of a historical narrative.”Misrepresentations of the Evidence for Human Evolutionary Origins:http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/04/texas_hold_em_part_ii_calling_1.html#moreEvolution of the Genus Homo - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences - Tattersall, Schwartz, May 2009Excerpt: "Definition of the genus Homo is almost as fraught as the definition of Homo sapiens. We look at the evidence for “early Homo,” finding little morphological basis for extending our genus to any of the 2.5–1.6-myr-old fossil forms assigned to “early Homo” or Homo habilis/rudolfensis." http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100202 "But what is the basis for the human evolution thesis put forward by evolutionists? It is the existence of plenty of fossils on which evolutionists are able to build imaginary interpretations. Throughout history, more than 6,000 species of ape have lived, and most of them have become extinct. Today, only 120 species live on the earth. These 6,000 or so species of ape, most of which are extinct, constitute a rich resource for the evolutionists to build imaginary interpretations with." http://www.darwinismrefuted.com/origin_of_man.htmlOrigin of the Mind: Marc HauserExcerpt: "Researchers have found some of the building blocks of human cognition in other species. But these building blocks make up only the cement footprint of the skyscraper that is the human mind",,,http://www.uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/ic-all-the-way-down-the-grand-human-evolutionary-discontinuity-and-probabilistic-resources/#comment-341275Darwin and the Mathematicians - David Berlinski“The formation within geological time of a human body by the laws of physics (or any other laws of similar nature), starting from a random distribution of elementary particles and the field, is as unlikely as the separation by chance of the atmosphere into its components.”Kurt Gödel, was a preeminent mathematician who is considered one of the greatest to have ever lived. Of Note: Godel was a Theist!http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/11/darwin_and_the_mathematicians.htmlStephen Meyer - Functional Proteins And Information For Body Plans - videohttp://www.metacafe.com/watch/4050681/stephen_meyer_functional_proteins_and_information_for_body_plans/Eighty percent of proteins are different between humans and chimpanzees; Gene; Volume 346, 14 February 2005:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15716009 Chimpanzee?10-10-2008 - Dr Richard Buggs - research geneticist at the University of Florida...Therefore the total similarity of the genomes could be below 70%.http://www.refdag.nl/artikel/1366432/Chimpanzee.htmlCHROMOSOME STUDY STUNS EVOLUTIONISTSExcerpt: To their great surprise, Dorit and his associates found no nucleotide differences at all in the non-recombinant part of the Y chromosomes of the 38 men. This non-variation suggests no evolution has occurred in male ancestry.http://www.reasons.org/interpreting-genesis/adam-and-eve/chromosome-study-stuns-evolutionistsThe Unbearable Lightness of Chimp-Human Genome SimilarityExcerpt: One can seriously call into question the statement that human and chimp genomes are 99% identical. For one thing, it has been noted in the literature that the exact degree of identity between the two genomes is as yet unknown (Cohen, J., 2007. Relative differences: The myth of 1% Science 316: 1836.). ,,, In short, the figure of identity that one wants to use is dependent on various methodological factors.http://www.evolutionnews.org/2009/05/guy_walks_into_a_bar_and_think.html#moreCould Chance Arrange the Code for (Just) One Gene?"our minds cannot grasp such an extremely small probability as that involved in the accidental arranging of even one gene (10^-236)."http://www.creationsafaris.com/epoi_c10.htm"Estimating the Prevalence of Protein Sequences Adopting Functional Enzyme Folds” 2004: - Doug Axe ,,,this implies the overall prevalence of sequences performing a specific function by any domain-sized fold may be as low as 1 in 10^77, adding to the body of evidence that functional folds require highly extraordinary sequences."Waiting Longer for Two Mutations, Part 5 - Michael BeheExcerpt: the appearance of a particular (beneficial) double mutation in humans would have an expected time of appearance of 216 million years,http://behe.uncommondescent.com/2009/03/waiting-longer-for-two-mutations-part-5/Intelligent Design - The Anthropic Hypothesishttp://lettherebelight-77.blogspot.com/
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