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January 2004
King
Roger (Buzz) King has been invited by the
Smithsonian to serve as a Founder of the Smithsonian's
Encyclopedia of Life --
a project that is expected to be of the same magnitude and importance as the
Human Genome Project. The goal is to build a Web portal that centralizes access
to information on all known species of the planet. There will be about 25
leading scientists and technologists in the group. A prominent Founder of the
Encyclopedia is Edward O. Wilson -- the "father of the field of
biodiversity" -- who has won two Pulitzer Prizes,
in 1979 for On Human Nature
and in 1991 for The Ants.
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