MODERATOR: Barbara Liskov
Barbara Liskov's Homepage
PANELISTS:
Dennis Freeman: Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Dennis Freeman's Home page
Martha L. Gray: Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical and Electrical Engineering
Gray's HST bio
Peter Szolovits: Professor of Computer Science & Engineering
Peter Szolovits' home page
Eric Grimson: Bernard M. Gordon Professor of Medical Engineering
Eric Grimson's home page
ABOUT THE PANEL DISCUSSION:
MIT research is helping to speed the diagnosis of disease, and easing our most common afflictions.
Dennis Freeman is working on a better hearing aid. He describes how our ears can perceive sounds that make the eardrum vibrate less than the diameter of a hydrogen atom. He envisions a computer chip that will emulate sensitive cells in our inner ear that both react to sounds and communicate them to the brain.
Martha Gray is developing methods to look inside joint tissue, at the molecular level, to diagnose arthritis early enough for useful therapies. An estimated one in three Americans suffer from this painful disease.
Fifty to 100 thousand people a year are killed by medical errors. Peter Szolovits imagines a computer health record devised and controlled by a patient over a lifetime, which could play a key role in avoiding mistakes in medical diagnosis and treatment.
Eric Grimson says the imaging techniques he’s developing will bring nothing short of a revolution in surgery. His animated, 3D models are strikingly successful at guiding surgeons before and during such high-wire acts as the removal of brain tumors.
NOTES ON THE VIDEO (Time Index):
Video length is 1:31:31
Note that there is occasional graphic footage of surgery.
In Dennis Freeman's presentation, the image of a microfabricated ant's ear is from the cover of Scientific American Magazine, November 1992.
Dennis Freeman begins at 1:15
Martha Gray begins at 19:12
Peter Szolovits begins at 36:22
Eric Grimson begins at 53:13
Q&A begins at 1:08:20
The information on this page was accurate as of the day the video was added to MIT World. This video was added to MIT World on 2003-11-16.
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