Business Evolution 2.0 at Chicago Notre Dame!
How to Extract Business Secrets from Mother Nature
Perry Marshall with WBBM’s Cisco Cotto
Friday November 9, 2:45-5pm

Perry Marshall is an author, speaker, engineer, and business consultant. This is an invitation to sit in as he joins us in class at the University of Notre Dame’s Chicago Campus to speak about his book Evolution 2.0 and the research he conducted during the writing process.

Perry presents a basic easy-to-understand overview of nature’s evolutionary toolbox, of which most people have never heard, and translates it to business… We will do some live business problem solving!

Marshall’s book tackles the long debated concept of evolution and attempts to “break the deadlock between Darwin and design.” The basic idea is that symbiogenesis is literally the most powerful evolutionary tool in biology and it has many applications in business.

As a consultant, Perry takes off his business hat and puts on his biology hat to suddenly see problems much more clearly. You are in for a mind-bending talk… He will do a business symbiogenesis exercise that gets us asking questions that we probably wouldn’t have asked before.

Next up? You hear Cisco Cotto broadcast daily on WBBM Newsradio 78 from 10 until 3. You may also recognize him from assignments for some 20 years at WMAQ, WLS, WIND, and WMBI in Chicago. He has received awards for his work from the Associated Press, Chicagoland AIR Awards, Radio and Television News Directors Association, Chicago Headline Club, and the International Association of Firefighters.

On November 9, Cisco also takes off his day hat as broadcaster and shares his own insights on Evolution 2.0 gleaned from his studies and research since earning a degree at Moody here in Chicago.

Hosted by Gregory Hedges, Professor at Notre Dame Business School & Founding Partner, Protiviti Consulting

Notre Dame Chicago Campus
224 S Michigan Ave.
Suite 220

November 9, 2:45pm to 5pm

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THE EVENT (Registration is required for admission)

Where Did Life Come From?

#1 Question in the History of the Universe

Engineer offers $5 Million Prize

Perry Marshall at Penn State University’s Department of Electrical Engineering

Monday November 12, 1PM

Hub-Robeson Center, 2nd Floor – Room 233A/B, University Park, PA 16802

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(Parking available at the HUB Parking Deck)

What does Electrical Engineering tell us about life’s origin? A lot! On Monday November 12, Entrepreneur, Author and EE Perry Marshall presents: DNA and the Genetic Code through the eyes of a communication engineer.

Perry grew up in a conservative Christian community; he was taught Young Earth Creationism in church. But when a crisis forced him to question everything, he applied Electrical Engineering to the problem.

This revealed a world of discoveries he couldn’t have imagined… and engineering served him well. Cells employ digital code, error correction, information processing and control systems.

These parallel and supersede human-engineered systems. One blade of grass is 10,000 years ahead of human technology.

This led him to organize a $5 million technology prize for Origin of Life and Artificial Intelligence, with judges from Harvard, Oxford and MIT. The prize was featured in IEEE Spectrum and is based on the discoveries of Claude Shannon, the legendary EE from Bell Labs who pioneered Information Theory.

Perry’s bestseller Evolution 2.0: Breaking the Deadlock Between Darwin and Design brings fresh eyes to the 150-year old evolution debate. Bill Gates and the founders of Google revolutionized software and the web through their status as outsiders; similarly, Perry harnesses a communication engineer’s outsider’s point of view to reveal a century of unrecognized research and discoveries.

At Penn State, Perry will explore new frontiers of science research. He raises new questions that confront us in Artificial Intelligence and Genetic Engineering today.

Where did life come from? What happens if we crack the code? Find out at Penn State November 12.

Penn State University

Department of Electrical Engineering

Monday November 12, 1PM

Room 233AB Hub Building

I’ve been conversing with folks on Peaceful Science about randomness in evolution. I asked them to define randomness.

“T_aquaticus” replied:

If you purposefully shuffle a deck of cards the result is Read more »

Joshua Swamidass from Washington University invited me to respond to conversations on his blog about Evolution 2.0. I wrote two blog posts in response.

We are asking: Are the mutations that produce useful changes in evolution random? Or not?

Joshua says they’re random. I (along with scientists like Nobel Prize winner Barbara McClintock) insist Read more »

Below is an email I just received from a reader of Evolution 2.0. I loved the insights in his email and at the end of it, he asked a great question about unchanged organisms and Evolutionary Creation.

So instead of responding privately, I thought I’d make this a public conversation for the rest of the community to enjoy.

Here’s the Letter:

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In my blog post It’s Time to Tighten the Definition of “Random” I said it makes no sense to say “There is a pattern to a mutation’s randomness.” Joshua Swamidass (Washington University) and friends challenged me on this.

Before I respond, let’s understand why anyone should care.

I first tumbled into Read more »

S. Joshua Swamidass is an associate professor in the Laboratory and Genomic Medicine Division at Washington University in St Louis. His research uses computational methods solve problems at the intersection of medicine, chemistry and biology.

Joshua and I have met at several conferences and had long discussions. He, like myself, is very interested in ending the war Read more »

Steve Huffey is a residential real estate investor, specializing in multi-units. His interest in the ‘crossroad of science and faith’ has led him to focus on philology of the era during which transition from Egyptian hieroglyphs to Proto-Sinaitic script and associated Paleo-Hebrew took place. Better clarity of this era and scripts give added meaning to Biblical creation texts.

Guest Post by Steve Huffey

The last sentence of “On the Origin of Species ….” reveals a struggle.

In his book, “On the Origin of Species ….”, Darwin wrote “Creator” nine times, “God” once, and quoted a statement including “God”; all put in a positive light. But in the topic and public debate of evolution, the design of God has suffered loss. Design was honored by Darwin, but dishonored by Read more »