J A C K E M E R Y . C O M

WHAT I DO

For me, it's all about the science. Everything about my professional life is aimed at being as deeply immersed in cutting edge science and technology as I can get. Currently, I spend most of my time in two main activities:

1. My patent law practice, representing individual academic scientists and research professionals, and working to develop a comprehensive strategy for protecting research-related intellectual property that is practicable and cost-effective for academics.


2. My own research, a continuation of the research I was working on at the Center for Innovations in Medicine at The Biodesign Intitute at Arizona State University, superficially involving computational molecular modeling of peptide interactions with proteins, but more fundamentally aimed at trying to understand how evolutionary algorithms work (and don't work) in very complex search spaces.

The idea is to use the former to finance the latter, in the venerable tradition of the "gentleman scholar", thereby avoiding dependence on funding bureaucracies and other distracting entanglements.

Nowadays the technology makes it possible to enjoy the kind of intellectual and professional life formerly available only in a major U.S. city, without having to live in one. The U.S. Patent Office is fully electronic now, the scientific literature is online, and my own research takes place on a university supercomputing cluster that I can access on my laptop from anywhere. Currently, I live in Davao City in the southern Philippines, a thriving smaller city a short hop from Singapore, which has the advantages of a pleasant climate, tropical beaches, interesting culture, very low cost of living, and near total freedom from committee meetings, paperwork, and other unwanted distractions.

My background: law, bioengineering, and computer science, with the occasional detour into business and teaching. See bio and brief resume.

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