Bob Glass had now read enough about epidemiology to know that his daughter’s project was an original contribution to the field. “I asked myself, Why didn’t these epidemiologists figure it out? They didn’t figure it out because they didn’t have tools that were focused on the problem. They had tools to understand the movement of infectious disease without the purpose of trying to stop it.” With the help of the computer programming genius at Sandia Labs, he and Laura had built a tool that might stop a disease.
