Dance, Er

Dancer, Er, by E. Alexander Munson, is a personal account of an extraordinary journey through names and how we find home within them; the narrator struggles with his identity as family, language, asthma, hero arches, hero complexes, and dreams that turn into nightmares, all spiral together to create an unparalleled trip through the social and reclusive construction of this Wanna-be-Wolf, and/or the collective unconscious run rampant. There remains a question as to whether the dreams described have been random manifestations of the ego or messages from something more on the spiritual side of things. But as the narrator explores the many manifestations of God and the self, he finds the patterns in his dreams to either be uncanny, if not prophetic, in their constant appearances and indications, but also chaotic at times, much like other miracles, or mental abnormalities, depending on who is talking. Such miracles eventually lead the narrator to find purpose as a Water Protector against the Dakota Access Pipeline and the projects that reflect it. This story is not yet realized as the future of our world and ourselves, extraordinary or otherwise, are still at stake in the battle between life and the black snake. Advisor: Jonis Age

Finishing the euchromatic sequence of the human genome

The sequence of the human genome encodes the genetic instructions for human physiology, as well as rich information about human evolution. In 2001, the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium reported a draft sequence of the euchromatic portion of the human genome. Since then, the international collaboration has worked to convert this draft into a genome sequence with high accuracy and nearly complete coverage. Here, we report the result of this finishing process. The current genome sequence (Build 35) contains 2.85 billion nucleotides interrupted by only 341 gaps. It covers ∼99% of the euchromatic genome and is accurate to an error rate of ∼1 event per 100,000 bases. Many of the remaining euchromatic gaps are associated with segmental duplications and will require focused work with new methods. The near-complete sequence, the first for a vertebrate, greatly improves the precision of biological analyses of the human genome including studies of gene number, birth and death. Notably, the human enome seems to encode only 20,000-25,000 protein-coding genes. The genome sequence reported here should serve as a firm foundation for biomedical research in the decades ahead

Proteus: An Adaptable Presentation System for a Software Development and Multimedia Document Environment

Proteus: An Adaptable Presentation System for a Software Development and Multimedia Document Environment by Ethan Vincent Munson Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Professor Michael A. Harrison, Chair The many different documents produced by a large software project are typically created and maintained by a variety of incompatible software tools, such as programming environments, document processing systems, and specialized editors for non-textual media. The incompatibility of these tools hinders communication within the project by making it difficult to share the documents that record the project's plans, design history, implementations, and experiences. An important factor underlying this incompatibility is the diversity of presentation models that have been adopted. Each system's presentation model is well-suited to the document types and media it supports, but is difficult to adapt to other types and media. This dissertation describes a ne..