Kelly Brownell directs the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
Brownell claims the savings on peripherals, administration and floor space cut overall costs by almost two-thirds.
Brownell bought and configured all kinds of network interface cards, specialized switches and local networks.
Yet even as he dreams of an initial public offering, Brownell is entering his most vulnerable season.
Brownell's company, Egenera, is an early leader in "virtualization, " the hot tech trend aimed at taming corporate data.
The computer Brownell came up with was built using general-purpose Intel chips and Windows and Linux operating systems.
Ironically, the NEJM diatribe came out around the same time as two U.S. Supreme Court rulings which touch upon two issues raised by Brownell and Koplan.
Mr. BROWNELL: I don't believe that researchers are intentionally tainting their data, but I do believe that unintentional biases enter in in the way studies are designed and interpreted.
Popkin is a close collaborator with Brownell, and they co-authored a paper calling for a soda tax which, inter alia, also claims that industry is distorting the data.
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Brownell left his cushy job as chief technology officer at Goldman Sachs to launch a startup that sells costly, hard-to-explain computers in direct competition with IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems.
And worse, they did so by taking the raw data from one of the most widely cited systematic reviews (by Vartanian, of which Brownell was a co-author and which alleged industry bias).
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Authors Kelly Brownell of Yale and Dr. Jeffrey Koplan of Emory (and former Centers for Disease Control Director) launch a vigorous assault on the Nutrition Keys program and the food and beverage industries in general.
Mr. KELLY BROWNELL (Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, Yale University): Both the dairy and the soft drink industries are notorious for giving investigators money to do studies that typically find things favorable to the industry.
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