L A JOLLA, Calif. — Spend enough time with Larry Smarr and, chances are, he’ll invite you to step inside his colon.. Like more than a million Americans, Smarr has inflammatory bowel disease ...

When I first met Larry Smarr, he was trying to chart a new future for the diagnosis of illnesses. Today, he’s also charting a future for the surgeries used to treat them.

Inside Larry Smarr’s refrigerator this week was a stool sample that he planned to ship to a laboratory, which will send back a report of information about what’s going on inside Smarr.

Larry Smarr’s journey into the data of his life began when he moved to California in 2000. “I had spent 28 years in the heartland of the obesity epidemic in Illinois.

UC San Diego computer science professor Larry Smarr stands in front of a 3D representation of his internal organs, Feb. 22, 2017. UC San Diego's Larry Smarr is the kind of guy who wears a Fitbit, ...

Larry Smarr: Doctors are incredibly skilled at looking at the epiphenomena of our bodies, the symptoms, and deducing what must be going on inside you — instead of what we’re talking about, ...

Larry Smarr: Well let's start by understanding that we get about a factor of a thousand-fold increase in computer power for the same money every decade. This is known as Moore’s Law.

Larry Smarr may have stepped back from full-time work in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of California, San Diego, but that doesn’t mean he’s slowing down. In fact, ...

Larry Smarr has never graced the front of Fortune or Forbes, though he did once appear on the cover of R&D magazine. His 1975 astrophysics doctoral dissertation included seminal research on black ...

Larry Smarr sees a revolution coming in the way people look after their health.Smarr, an astrophysicist with a background in supercomputing and founder of the Calit2 research center located at ...