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A serial entrepreneur and computer-science professor is helping scientists sift through an overload of information in the hope that they will achieve breakthrough discoveries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author explains why he resigned as an associate professor of computer science at the University of New Mexico to accept a software engineer position with Internet services provider Google, Inc. He notes that he lacked balance between his personal life and job responsibilities as a professor, also noting that he desired a position that had a direct, immediate impact on society. Other topics discussed as reasons for his resignation include the centralization of authority, incentives, and salary.

The article announces that University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) computer science professor Deborah Estrin has been hired as a professor at CornellNYC Tech, a research and technology campus of Cornell University located on Roosevelt Island in New York City.

The article discusses American entrepreneur and higher education critic Peter Thiel, commenting on his decision to teach a computer science course at Stanford University in the Spring of 2012 and exploring issues facing his "20 Under 20" fellowship program for entrepreneurs.

The article presents a profile of Tsinghua University distributed scientific computing professor François Grey. Particular attention is given to Grey's efforts to involve scientists from around the world in online collaborative research projects, referred to as crowdsourcing. His work as coordinator of the Citizen Cyberscience Centre at CERN's Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is discussed and his website, titled Billion Brain Blog, is mentioned.