I like making it easy to share things, in ways that scale. 

I am currently running the Consent to Research project (CtR),  a massive clinical research study in which people take the data they can gather about their own health and donate it for computational analysis. I’m also one of the founders of the Access2Research petition.

As part of CtR, I am a Senior Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Research Fellow at Lybba, and supported by Sage Bionetworks. 

I’ve worked at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, the World Wide Web Consortium, the US House of Representatives, and most recently Creative Commons. For six years my desk was graciously hosted in MIT’s Project on Mathematics and Computation (read more on why it was awesome enough to overcome Boston winters). I also started a bioinformatics company called Incellico, which is now part of Selventa.

For disclosure’s sake, I sit on the Board of Directors for Sage Bionetworks and iCommons, as well as the Advisory Boards for Boundless Learning, Genomic Arts, and Genomera. 

I studied Philosophy at Tulane University, with a focus on contemporary epistemology and the works of Alvin Plantinga. I also focused on French and spent a year studying Letters at Paris-Sorbonne.

There’s lots of content linked from my writing and talk pages. If you want more real time than here, follow me on twitter. I also used to post at the Common Knowledge blog at scienceblogs.com, which is now part of National Geographic.