Xiao Xiao, pianist, technologist and doctoral candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,brought to Aspen her insights from piano-playing to human-computer interaction, designing experiences that bridge the digital and the physical."One day when I was practicing the piano I was looking at the really pretty reflection that's in front of the keyboard of my hands,and I had this thought of wouldn't it be really beautiful if instead of seeing my own hands there I could see somebody else's hands," Xiao Xiao said.Dr. Joel Dudley is director of bioinformatics and assistant professor of genetics and genomic sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.He shared at Aspen the great strides made in health care, specifically in the field of personal genomics."A genome for a single individual, for example, will have 6 billion letters in it, so 6 billion with a "B" letters.It's a tremendous amount of information to interpret, and we now have the tools to make it cheap and easy, relatively easy, to interpret that, or at least measure that," he explained.Patricia McLaughlin is associate vice president of communications at the Legacy Foundation, a leading public health organization working to drive down smoking rates.She is at Aspen to keep media and business leaders engaged with the issue."We have worked with three different artists who have all taken a position on some of the key issues that we are engaged in around tobacco use,
