While working as the CIO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine , Edward Dorrington realized that the handling of complex data communications, such as grant application forms, could be radically improved. Ed left CIRM to found Noetic Logic — whose mission is to solve these problems elegantly and efficiently.
March 2011
A Time of Evolution
A pivotal year for Noetic Logic. In 2011, Ed’s daughter was born, and Noetic Logic began providing consulting software development directly to our clients.
2013
Data Driven Decisionmaking
We begin to focus on creating systems that let our clients visualize and analyze high value (as opposed to high volume) data.
July 2014
Apps
As Ed’s daughter grows, he sees a need for quality educational apps and games. This leads Noetic Logic to partner with Mad Dog software. Together they develop educational games for children of all ages.
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Covered California
Outreach and Education Grants System.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandated that states participate in health insurance exchanges. California chose to operate its own exchange, now known as “Covered California.” To reduce the confusion around the many changes resulting from the ACA, Covered California set aside $50 million to provide outreach and education grants to organizations who serve the targetted populations.
Noetic Logic built an interactive decision support system that allowed Covered California staff to create “what if?” scenarios around these grant programs. The purpose of the system was to determine the mix of grantees that best met the goals of the program.
By using the mature, stable Ruby on Rails platform, we were able to create the entire system in less than six weeks, start to finish.
Connecting Kids to Coverage (CKC) has a goal of enrolling at least 2,000 uninsured children and their families in healthcare over the next two years, while assisting thousands of families to retain their coverage. CKC hired Noetic Logic to build an information management system to enable them to reach out to eligible students’ families, schedule appointments, provide coordinated assistance, and to visualize their performance with an eye towards continuously improving the delivery of services.
We leveraged the Clojure language and the Java Virtual Machine ecosystem to provide a solution that can scale easily to support all of the Alameda County school districts.
The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST) was established to provide objective advice from California’s best scientists and research institutions on policy issues involving science. Beginning in 2009, ten young scientists are awarded fellowships each year to work with the state legislature. CCST brought Noetic Logic on to create an online application, review, and management system, to ensure that only the best qualified candidates are awarded fellowships.
Noetic Logic chose Ruby on Rails as the core technology to power this system, which has been running solidly for over ten years.
Tobacco and alcohol companies have introduced a variety of new products which appeal to underage consumers, such as flavored tobacco, and so-called “alcopops.” In 2013, San Mateo County completed a full census of the 599 licensed tobacco sellers in the county. Volunteers collected information on the availability, access, marketing, and pricing of tobacco products, healthy and unhealthy foods, and alcohol.
Noetic Logic was hired to develop an interactive web-based tool to visualize the results of this survey. This project is publically available and can be viewed and interacted with here.
Google’s Maps API, coupled with the excellent Highcharts library enabled us to build this visualization exceptionally quickly.
Teaching kids basic addition via a fun interactive game.
Mad Dog Software was created to make educational games that are also fun to use. They turned to Noetic Logic to make that vision come to life. Our first project together, Penguin Addition (), is a counting and addition game for kids just learning math. Because Mad Dog wanted the game to be cross platform, we turned to the Corona SDK for its speed and stability, which allowed us to create the game quickly with seamless cross-platform capabilities.
Penguin Addition has been very positively reviewed (Teachers with Apps, Educational App Store). Mad Dog and Noetic Logic are now working on our next game, which focuses on U.S. geography.
While working as the CIO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), I built a system that allowed them to manage the entire life cycle of their grants programs. The system enabled institutions to apply for and monitor grants, independent scientists to review these applications, and for CIRM to handle all of the complex interactions required, both pre- and post-award.
When I left CIRM, the system was then handling approximately $750 million across over a thousand grants in a dozen programs. The core of the system is still in use by CIRM, now handling $3 billion spread over thousands of grants and dozens of programs.
Architecting the system using Ruby on Rails allowed us to quickly adapt to widely changing needs as CIRM charted the unknown and controversial territory of stem cell research funding.
This web site (like virtually all web sites, and virtually all software) wouldn’t have been possible if it weren’t for the combined efforts of many many people and organizations, especially in the open source world. I’d like to thank the following organizations and people for their contributions.
Hugo
Steve Francia’s awesome Hugo static site generator is the engine that powers this site. There’s something wonderfully satisfying about making a change to your site, and having the entire site regenerated in 17 milliseconds. Thanks Steve!
The Agency Hugo theme
digitalcraftsman’s Agency theme is a beautiful single-page portfolio theme that allows you to capture the essense of the work that you do and communicate that to others.
Twitter’s Bootstrap Framework
The kind folks at Twitter created and then released the Bootstrap web front-end framework, and thereby greatly reduced the amount of work it takes to create a beautiful, functional web site.
Linode
If you are ever in the market for exceptionally high quality Virtual Private Servers for web hosting, look no further than Linode. I’ve been using them for years, and have never had a problem that wasn’t dealt with immediately and satisfactorily.
The National Forest Service
The lovely photo of Mt. Baker at the top of the web site is courtesy of the National Forest Service.
Anna Varshavsky
Last, and most certainly not least, I have to thank my good friend Anna Varshavsky, not only for her fantastic design sense, but also for being the kind of person who will push you (relentlessly) to be your best self, and do your best work.
Privacy Policy
How Noetic Logic handles your data.
This privacy policy discloses Noetic Logic’s privacy practices. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
Noetic Logic is the sole owner of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the form given on our website:
1. See what data we have about you, if any.
2. Change/correct any data we have about you.
3. Have us delete any data we have about you.
4. Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Updates
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page.
