" Larry cites CEO Eric Schmidt's academic background and the academic orgins of the Internet (by which he means it's an open collaboration, not a vendor relationship.) The cool thing about the Web when it launched, he says, was that there was no real barrier to putting things online, "so people put up all sorts of crap.

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"It's a beautiful international collaboration, " he said about the recent effort that involved doctors and researches in Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Dr. Ferrari, 64 years old, sat down recently with The Wall Street Journal to talk about interdisciplinary collaboration, faculty recruitment and what it's like for the Carey School to be the new kid at a historic university.

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