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This is a good example of an advancement in one area because a researcher from another area joined the effort. His engineering perspective allowed him to see the problem differently. It's like the opposite case, where for example a biologist joins computer scientists and invents a clever new genetic algorithm.

I wonder if he would recommend that we participate in projects like http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/ or http://folding.stanford.edu .