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24 profile views 24 profile views Discover who's viewed your profile. Discover who's viewed your profile. 0 post impressions 0 post impressions Start a post to increase engagement. Start a post to increase engagement. Past 7 days Past 7 days 12 search appearances 12 search appearances See how often you appear in search results. See how often you appear in search results. Show all analytics About About Steven R. Ness is a Scientist, Engineer and Entrepreneur and has been involved in protein structure prediction and protein docking for a considerable time. He has worked with exceptional researchers in the protein small molecular docking field, X-ray crystallography, genomics and machine learning. Steven R. Ness is a Scientist, Engineer and Entrepreneur and has been involved in protein structure prediction and protein docking for a considerable time. He has worked with exceptional researchers in the protein small molecular docking field, X-ray crystallography, genomics and machine learning. Activity Activity

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1 month ago • Edited • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn I made a game that lets you walk on proteins. It’s called Atomica—a calm, science-infused walking-sim built from real molecular data, the protein 1erm from the PDB. It’s free and very early, and I’d love your help shaping where it goes next. Play now: • Steam (PC): solo today; multiplayer next https://lnkd.in/gNM9uDHE • Fortnite: enter code 7078-0288-7446 https://lnkd.in/gg2ccJ93 • Meta Horizon Worlds: VR hangout https://lnkd.in/gzA3NW4r Give it 5 minutes and tell me one thing you’d add.

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4 months ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Ok something seriously cool that you have to try out! Try pointing the brand new ChatGPT Agent at my new website https://ci.doi.bio and tell it that it can load a structure by typing "1erm" in the chat box and press enter. I built this whole website on the weekend in an hour after I heard the Agent announcement.

Here is a good prompt to try for ChatGPT Agent:

"Please look up the PDB id for a protein involved in antibiotic resistance to beta-lactamases. Then navigate to https://ci.doi.bio and type 'load 1erm' in the chat box where 1erm is the PDB id. Then press enter."

This is a whole new paradigm for including Agents in websites, websites specifically built for agents and that both you and the agent operate in a shared collaborative workspace!

This is inspired by my class in CSCW (Computer Supported Collaborative Work) with Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey at UVIC. Humans and agents collaborating in shared virtual workspaces! …more ci.doi.bio ci.doi.bio 5 Show all posts Experience Experience Founder Founder doi.bio · Self-employed doi.bio · Self-employed Mar 2025 - Present · 9 mos Mar 2025 to Present · 9 mos Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · Hybrid Founder of doi.bio. Founder of doi.bio. Scientist Scientist Zax Institute · Permanent Full-time Zax Institute · Permanent Full-time May 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos May 2021 to Present · 4 yrs 7 mos Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · On-site Victoria, British Columbia, Canada · On-site Scientist at Zax Institute. Developing OSS software and databases to accelerate structural biology. Scientist at Zax Institute. Developing OSS software and databases to accelerate structural biology. Founder CEO Founder CEO folding.ai · Permanent Full-time folding.ai · Permanent Full-time May 2021 - Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos May 2021 to Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Software Engineer Software Engineer Quip · Permanent Full-time Quip · Permanent Full-time May 2020 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr May 2020 to Apr 2021 · 1 yr Salesforce Salesforce 5 yrs 8 mos 5 yrs 8 mos Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Einstein Voice Assistant Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Einstein Voice Assistant Permanent Full-time Permanent Full-time Nov 2019 - May 2020 · 7 mos Nov 2019 to May 2020 · 7 mos San Francisco, California, United States San Francisco, California, United States Member of the Einstein Voice Assistant team in Salesforce Research (formerly MetaMind) a cloud led by Richard Socher (https://www.socher.org/). We developed an AI based voice assistant smart speaker that could understand spoken language and create objects within the Salesforce core. Member of the Einstein Voice Assistant team in Salesforce Research (formerly MetaMind) a cloud led by Richard Socher (https://www.socher.org/). We developed an AI based voice assistant smart speaker that could understand spoken language and create objects within the Salesforce core. Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Service Mesh Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Service Mesh Permanent Full-time Permanent Full-time Nov 2018 - Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo Nov 2018 to Nov 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo San Francisco, California, United States San Francisco, California, United States Member of the Service Mesh team at Salesforce. This team delivered the Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/) implementation at Salesforce, an open source mesh proxy for cloud computing and worked closely with the Istio (https://istio.io/) team to deploy a Service Mesh infrastructure to support the Hyperforce / Customer 360 transformation at Salesforce. Member of the Service Mesh team at Salesforce. This team delivered the Envoy (https://www.envoyproxy.io/) implementation at Salesforce, an open source mesh proxy for cloud computing and worked closely with the Istio (https://istio.io/) team to deploy a Service Mesh infrastructure to support the Hyperforce / Customer 360 transformation at Salesforce. Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Team Lead - Customer 360 Lead Member Of Technical Staff - Team Lead - Customer 360 Permanent Full-time Permanent Full-time Feb 2016 - Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos Feb 2016 to Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 10 mos San Francisco, California, United States San Francisco, California, United States A founding member of the original Customer 360 tiger team, responsible for all Salesforce Core development work in the POC for this product and helped ensure the success of the POC. Went on to be the Team Lead of the UI for Customer 360. Presented demos to one of the founders of Salesforce, EVPs and other key executives at Salesforce. Worked closely with the Architects at Salesforce to deliver the Customer 360 Data Manager Product. A founding member of the original Customer 360 tiger team, responsible for all Salesforce Core development work in the POC for this product and helped ensure the success of the POC. Went on to be the Team Lead of the UI for Customer 360. Presented demos to one of the founders of Salesforce, EVPs and other key executives at Salesforce. Worked closely with the Architects at Salesforce to deliver the Customer 360 Data Manager Product. Show all 5 experiences Show all 22 experiences Education Education University of Victoria University of Victoria Ph.D., Computer Science Ph.D., Computer Science 2010 - 2013 2010 - 2013 Grade: 9.0 GPA Grade: 9.0 GPA University of Victoria University of Victoria M.Sc., Computer Science M.Sc., Computer Science 2007 - 2010 2007 - 2010 Grade: 9.0 GPA Grade: 9.0 GPA Activities and societies: Computer Science Course Union - Community teaching for Computer Science Society for Indian Classical Music Activities and societies: Computer Science Course Union - Community teaching for Computer Science Society for Indian Classical Music Show all 5 educations Licenses & certifications Licenses & certifications Unreal: Blueprint Unreal: Blueprint LinkedIn LinkedIn Issued Oct 2021 Issued Oct 2021 Show credential Unreal: Content Pipeline Unreal: Content Pipeline LinkedIn LinkedIn Issued Oct 2021 Issued Oct 2021 Show credential Show all 7 licenses & certifications Projects Projects EasyRTC Open Source WebRTC / iOS and Android WebRTC SDKs EasyRTC Open Source WebRTC / iOS and Android WebRTC SDKs Nov 2012 - Present Nov 2012 - Present Associated with Priologic Software Inc. Associated with Priologic Software Inc. Show project EasyRTC is a bundle of Open Source WebRTC joy, incorporates an EasyRTC server install and client API, and working, HTML5 and Javascript, application source code under a BSD 2 license.

We've recently added commercially licensed Native WebRTC APIs that work with EasyRTC and potentially most other WebRTC gateways. EasyRTC is a bundle of Open Source WebRTC joy, incorporates an EasyRTC server install and client API, and working, HTML5 and Javascript, application source code under a BSD 2 license. We've recently added commercially licensed Native WebRTC APIs that work with EasyRTC and potentially most other WebRTC gateways. Other contributors Other contributors 5 Show all 11 projects Volunteering Volunteering President President President Society for Indian Classical Arts, University of Victoria Society for Indian Classical Arts, University of Victoria Jan 2010 - Dec 2013 · 4 yrs Jan 2010 - Dec 2013 · 4 yrs Arts and Culture Arts and Culture President President Lead Developer and Scientist Lead Developer and Scientist Lead Developer and Scientist The Orchive The Orchive May 2007 - Jan 2025 · 17 yrs 9 mos May 2007 - Jan 2025 · 17 yrs 9 mos Animal Welfare Animal Welfare Developed the Orchive website (http://orchive.cs.uvic.ca) and responsible for maintenance and communication with scientsits Developed the Orchive website (http://orchive.cs.uvic.ca) and responsible for maintenance and communication with scientsits Skills Skills System Administration System Administration Programming Programming 2 endorsements 2 endorsements Show all 33 skills Recommendations Recommendations Received Received Given Given You haven't received a recommendation yet You haven't received a recommendation yet Try asking one of your connections to recommend you Try asking one of your connections to recommend you Ask for a recommendation Publications Publications Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Teaching Cloud Computing on Distributed Research Testbeds Taking a Walk on the Wild Side: Teaching Cloud Computing on Distributed Research Testbeds 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'14) · Mar 1, 2014 45th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE'14) · Mar 1, 2014 Show publication Other authors Other authors 7 Human and machine annotation in the Orchive, a large scale bioacoustic archive Human and machine annotation in the Orchive, a large scale bioacoustic archive 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP · Jan 1, 2014 2014 IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP · Jan 1, 2014 Show publication Advances in computer technology have enabled the collection, digitization, and automated processing of huge archives of bioacoustic sound. Many of the tools previously used in bioacoustics research work well with small to medium-sized audio collections, but are challenged when processing large collections ranging from tens of terabytes to petabyte size. The Orchive is a system that assists researchers to listen to, view, annotate and run advanced audio feature extraction and machine learning algorithms on large bioacoustic archives. Annotation is one of the biggest challenges in our work. In this paper, we describe our efforts to utilize experts as well as citizen scientists to participate in the process of annotating recordings. The Orchive contains over 23,000 hours of orca vocalizations collected over the course of 30 years, and represents one of the largest continuous collections of bioacoustic recordings in the world. Manual annotation is practically impossible and therefore we investigate the effectiveness of a semi-automatic approach for extracting information from these recordings, and show various experimental results. Finally we have been able to apply our automatic analysis over the a large portion of the archive and describe the computational resources required. To the best of our knowledge this is the largest archive of bioacoustic data that has even been automatically analyzed. Advances in computer technology have enabled the collection, digitization, and automated processing of huge archives of bioacoustic sound. Many of the tools previously used in bioacoustics research work well with small to medium-sized audio collections, but are challenged when processing large collections ranging from tens of terabytes to petabyte size. The Orchive is a system that assists researchers to listen to, view, annotate and run advanced audio feature extraction and machine learning algorithms on large bioacoustic archives. Annotation is one of the biggest challenges in our work. In this paper, we describe our efforts to utilize experts as well as citizen scientists to participate in the process of annotating recordings. The Orchive contains over 23,000 hours of orca vocalizations collected over the course of 30 years, and represents one of the largest continuous collections of bioacoustic recordings in the world. Manual annotation is practically impossible and therefore we investigate the effectiveness of a semi-automatic approach for extracting information from these recordings, and show various experimental results. Finally we have been able to apply our automatic analysis over the a large portion of the archive and describe the computational resources required. To the best of our knowledge this is the largest archive of bioacoustic data that has even been automatically analyzed. Show all 12 publications Patents Patents Integrated entity view across distributed systems Integrated entity view across distributed systems US 10,936,582 · Issued Mar 3, 2021 US 10,936,582 · Issued Mar 3, 2021 See patent Methods, systems, and computer program products for a customer relationship management (CRM) system are provided herein. Embodiments presented herein provide for exchange of data between disparate, distributed systems; subscribe to and/or publish customer data change event; creation of master records for consumers using static and streaming sources; providing data provenance, auditing capabilities, and queries across multiple tenants and third party systems. Embodiments provide a single view of a customer in a distributed system environment. Methods, systems, and computer program products for a customer relationship management (CRM) system are provided herein. Embodiments presented herein provide for exchange of data between disparate, distributed systems; subscribe to and/or publish customer data change event; creation of master records for consumers using static and streaming sources; providing data provenance, auditing capabilities, and queries across multiple tenants and third party systems. Embodiments provide a single view of a customer in a distributed system environment. User Interface For Commerce Architecture User Interface For Commerce Architecture US 20200097482 · Filed Jan 31, 2019 US 20200097482 · Filed Jan 31, 2019 See patent Disclosed herein are method, system and device embodiments for setting up a graphical user interface (GUI) for a commerce architecture. An embodiment operates by providing a GUI that displays a first button for adding a first data source and a second button for adding a second data source, the second data source being related to the first data source, receiving a first response via the first button to add the first data source and a second response via the second button to add the second data source, providing a view of a first data schema and a second data schema, wherein the first data schema includes at least one object from the first or the second data source, and wherein the second data schema is a canonical data model, mapping the at least one object of the first data schema to at least one object of the second data schema, and providing a single entity view of the at least one object of the second data schema. Disclosed herein are method, system and device embodiments for setting up a graphical user interface (GUI) for a commerce architecture. An embodiment operates by providing a GUI that displays a first button for adding a first data source and a second button for adding a second data source, the second data source being related to the first data source, receiving a first response via the first button to add the first data source and a second response via the second button to add the second data source, providing a view of a first data schema and a second data schema, wherein the first data schema includes at least one object from the first or the second data source, and wherein the second data schema is a canonical data model, mapping the at least one object of the first data schema to at least one object of the second data schema, and providing a single entity view of the at least one object of the second data schema. Other inventors Other inventors 10 Courses Courses Computational Biology Algorithms Computational Biology Algorithms CSC 525: CSC 525: Associated with University of Victoria Associated with University of Victoria Languages Languages Chinese Chinese Elementary proficiency Elementary proficiency Dutch Dutch Elementary proficiency Elementary proficiency Show all 6 languages Interests Interests Top Voices Top Voices Companies Companies Groups Groups Newsletters Newsletters Schools Schools Yann LeCun Yann LeCun · 2nd Second degree connection VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta VP & Chief AI Scientist at Meta 1,123,594 followers 1,123,594 followers Following Anand Chandrasekaran Anand Chandrasekaran · 2nd Second degree connection Founder (Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI). Investor (Celesta Capital, GC, 90+ seed checks, 10🦄s). Builder (Meta, Airtel, Five9). 1% better everyday. Founder (Crescendo AI, HiOctave AI). Investor (Celesta Capital, GC, 90+ seed checks, 10🦄s). 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