Listed roughly with the most recent stuff at the top. Most files are in PDF or text format.

Grad:

• Synthetic biology presentation. Overview of the field and work at MIT.
• Cyclic Codon Table: My attempt at organizing the codon table. Needs a legend and documentation to be written.
• Synthetic Biology Abstractions: Work in progress on describing the biological layer model. Presentation on this abstraction model.
• Bal, the merciless: During January 2006, I participated in MIT's 6.270 autonomous robot competition. Our robot, Bal, won first prize, to the surprise of many people, especially me.
• Engineering Synthetic Trans-Splicing Ribozyme Systems: PhD thesis proposal, a proposal presentation, and a poster.
• Remote Biology Labs: a proposal about using remotely controllable biology labs for promoting accessible and ubiquitous biology technology. Written for the E-ducation without borders 2005 conference. Here's the presentation I gave at the conference.
• Using Synthetic Nucleic Acids for in vivo System Assembly
• Assembly and Characterization of Synthetic Biological Systems: short presentation and overview of some of my research for a class.
• Fluorescence Assay for Polymerase Arrival Rates: My Master's Thesis describing PAR, formerly known as TIPS, now knows as PoPS. The short version for my research qualifying exam and here's a presentation.
• BioBricks++ Assembly Scheme: my proposal for assembling biological modules. A poster.
• Ode to Biology: the result from a night of boredom. Decode the hidden message or just listen to it [midi]
• Formalizing Modular Assembly Systems: draft of a not too rigorous attempt to prove some things about modularity
• The Modular Modeling of Biological Networks using Transcription Rates: report and a presentation
• The Next Step in Bioevolution: Engineering the Microbial World: Dangerous Ideas seminar: overview of ideas from our lab and synthetic biology
• Controlling Fluorescence in E. coli: one of my initial lab experiments
• Neuronal Adaptation to a Constant Stimulus in the Hodgkin-Huxley Model: playing around with the Hodgkin-Huxley model
• Effect of Increased Bathing Solution Salinity on the Threshold and Total Refractory Period of the Frog Sciatic Nerve: dissecting a frog. I think I'll stick with bacteria

• Kiwi: undergrad thesis on a secure distributed HTTPS filesystem and a presentation
• Impact of Cell Phone Disruptions on Perceptions and Impressions: a proposal to study social impact of cell phones
• Understanding Memory: The Systems and Processing Debate: I forgot what this is about
• Differences in Gender Perceptions across Race and Gender: Survey of Stanford students on their gender and race stereotypes of masculinity/femininity
• Social Influences on Lexical Access: Study on the effect of groups on brainstorming
• UNICOM: Business Opportunity Analysis of a computing utility and a presentation
• Public Speaking Delivery notes and a movie Got Gestures?[mov](9.8MB)
• Paradox and Fun with Language: a random presentation
• Two Paths to Zen Enlightenment: who doesn't want enlightenment?
• Buddhism Reborn into Zen: or to be reborn?
• Zen Teachings through Metaphors and Stories: or to listen to stories?
• Classification of Transmembrane Helices and Signal Peptides using Neural Networks: as boring as the title sounds
• Splash Trees: A Splay-Hash Priority Queue Data Structure
• Implantable Computers: technology and user interface evaluation of implanting devices
• Very short introduction to LaTeX: written for a class and of not much practical use except that it got me using LaTeX.
• DNA Computing
• The Categorical Imperative Again and Again: Kant again and again
• Philosophy of God: Plato, Augustine, and Descartes
• The Inadequacy and Impracticality of the Search for Extraterrestial Intelligence: Let's search for intelligence on our own planet first.
• On a Supposed Right to the Fulfillment of Desires and Inclinations: the story of the three little pigs as inspired by Kant
• To Serve the Monsters: Issues of trust in The Twilight Zone
• Socially Imposed Spectatorship: paper on "My Kinsman, Major Molineux"
• On Suspense: suspense and "The Raven"
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead?: is this a rhetorical question?
• Resistance is Futile: paper on "A Rose for Emily"

• Heaven's Gate: A Catch-22 screenplay. The actual video is much funnier.
• Friend or Foe (or Family): Essay on Hard Times
• Finding the True Enemy: Comparison of The Mayor of Casterbridge and Othello
• A Timeless Struggle: synthesis from several stories
• Living with Life: Essay on Madame Bovary
• Justice on Trial: Essay on one of my favorite books Crime and Punishment
• Some strange dialogues: Based on An Enemy of the People: Mayor, Doctor. With Leo Tolstoy on War and Peace. With Zeus.
• Tinobridge: mix between The Mayor of Casterbridge and my high school
• Digestion of a sandwich: I'm sure it had a point when I wrote this...
• ramblings on humanity, moderation, change, school
• Life, Death, and other Junk: good thing I'm not a philosopher
• Poems: Weed, The Battle, Nothing, and an epitaph
• short stories: The Enemy, The Devil, John and the Money Tree, The Beginning: slightly entertaining stories
• The 11th Commandment: newsletter based on The Crucible
• Stupidity: definitely stupid
• Dear Abby letters from mythological people, some WWI letters, Ralph from Lord of the Flies
• More letters to Ralph Waldo Emerson, people from I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, school board about mythology
• Some info about Ghana: apparently there really aren't any documents out there about Ghana, because this page keeps getting hits from google. It's not that interesting.
• Rights of Adolescents: not terribly interesting either.
• Solving World Problems: The pressing problems to me in high school no longer seem so pressing
• Time gap here. Files from junior high and beginning of high school do not appear recoverable from old Mac files. Probably a good thing. (Real demonstration of bit rot in a very short time period. Will I be able to read any of my files in 30 years?)
• Report on Egypt: From 6th grade. The oldest semi-interesting document I could find on my computer

Austin Che