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Professor Alex (Sandy)
Pentland 2008 Future of Health Technology Award is in the form of a statue of Pegasus with crystal eyes and one extra nano-diamond eye in the middle of the forehead to reflect supernatural abilities that future health technology will give to human race. Apollo Diamond provided the man-made natural diamond. In Greek mythology, Pegasus is regarded as the horse of Muses, and has always been at the service of creative minds. And so the story is told of a handsome youth who jumped on the back of a horse that unfolded the splendor of a mighty set of wings and soared towards the heavens where he can still be seen as the star constellation, Pegasus. Recipients of the Future of Health Technology Awards are the ones inspiring others to make the Earth a better place for human race: reducing suffering, maximizing the potential for self-realization of the human kind and extending human potential with technology. The award is presented at the annual Future of Health Technology Dinner during Future of Health Technology Summit™. It is my great pleasure to announce that inventor and author Professor Alex Pentland is the 2008 Future of Health Technology Award Honoree. Professor Pentland, just like Pegasus with the third diamond eye, can see future otherwise invisible to the human kind. Just like Pegasus with two extra wings, he can fly into the unknown destiny of the human race. I suspect that he has two hearts instead of one to feel the unexpressed longing of humans to live longer and very different lives. His work exemplified by projects like “memory glasses” and “depression meter” and recent book “Honest Signals” truly improve human condition and revolutionize the way we live and relate to one another. |
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Dr Raymond Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil has been described as “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal, and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes. Inc. magazine ranked him #8 among entrepreneurs in the United States, calling him the “rightful heir to Thomas Edison,” and PBS included Ray as one of 16 “revolutionaries who made America,” along with other inventors of the past two centuries. As one of the leading inventors of our time, Ray was the principal developer of the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition. Ray’s web site Kurzweil AI.net <http://www.kurzweilai.net> has over one million readers. Among Ray’s many honors, he is the recipient of the $500,000 MIT-Lemelson Prize, the world's largest for innovation. In 1999, he received the National Medal of Technology, the nation's highest honor in technology, from President Clinton in a White House ceremony. And in 2002, he was inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame , established by the US Patent Office . He has received thirteen honorary Doctorates and honors from three U.S. presidents. Ray has written five books, four of which have been national best sellers. The Age of Spiritual Machines has been translated into 9 languages and was the #1 best selling book on Amazon in science. Ray’s latest book, The Singularity is Near, was a New York Times best seller, and has been the #1 book on Amazon in both science and philosophy. |
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Eric Dishman General Manager & Global Director, Intel Health Research & Innovation Group Principal Research Scientist, Intel Corporation National Chair, Center for Aging Services Technologies Eric is a great thinker and leader changing the way we live. Through his determination and emotional stamina pioneering research on home health technologies for families struggling with cognitive decline, cancer, & cardiovascular disease has been conducted at Intel since 1999. His quest for improving conditions for those who suffer had great impact on other leaders making “technologically enabled caring” an important new field. His lab’s most recent research focuses on in-home sensor network technologies for assisting people who are dealing with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. He is a nationally known author and speaker—and advises numerous companies, universities, & Congressional members—on assistive technologies, telemedicine, and home healthcare. |
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Gary L.
Kreps, Ph.D. Chief Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch Behavioral Research Program Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute |
Gary L. Kreps (Ph.D. in Communication, 1979, University of Southern California) is Chief of the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch of the National Cancer Institute's Behavioral Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. In this position he plans, develops, and coordinates major new national research and outreach initiatives concerning risk communication, health promotion, behavior change, technology development, and information dissemination to promote cancer prevention and control. Dr. Kreps has published more than 20 books and 130 scholarly articles and chapters examining the important roles performed by communication in society. |
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Alice P
Pentland, M.D. James H. Sterner Professor and Chair Department of Dermatology University of Rochester & Medical Director, Center for Future Health |
Alice P. Pentland M.D. is the Medical Director of the Center for Future Health. She has twenty years of experience in scientific and clinical research in photobiology and skin cancer. Her research at the Center focuses on skin mapping and clinical applications in dermatology, and on the cellular and molecular aspects of the research effort on biomedical sensors. She received her M.D. degree and B.S. in biology in 1978 from the University of Michigan. She taught at Washington University School of Medicine until 1996 when she became the James H. Sterner Professor and Chair of Dermatology in the School of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Rochester. She is also the Director of Telemedicine for the Strong Health System. Dr. Pentland spent a sabbatical at the MIT Media Laboratory in 1996. She has published extensively in scientific and clinical journals, and served as principal investigator on numerous NIH research grants, clinical trials, and as a member of various boards, including the Society for Investigative Dermatology. |
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Barry
Robson, Ph.D. Strategic Advisor/IBM Distinguished Engineer Computational Biology Center Exploratory Server Systems IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Barry Robson is an IBM executive and Strategic Advisor, Professorial Lecturer at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY, and CEO & Chair of the Dirac Foundation, a learned body promoting theoretical chemistry and biology in medicine and veterinary science at the Royal Veterinary college, U. London. According to an article in Nature (389,418-420,1997) he was a pioneer in bioinformatics, protein modeling, and computer-aided drug design. He was awarded a Ph.D. (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) for experimental studies in protein folding in 1972, a D.Sc. (University of Manchester) for international recognition in computational chemistry and biochemistry in 1984, and Distinguished Engineer for contributions to bioinformatics by IBM in 1998. |
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Bruce
Karlin, M.D. Primary Care Physician Worcester, Massachusetts Vice Speaker, House of Delegates Massachusetts Medical Society |
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| About the Future of Health Technology Awards | ||
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| In 1956, a meeting of diverse group of scientists at Dartmouth consolidated a new field of science - Artificial Intelligence. The goal of that meeting was to discover the unknown and mysterious machinery of the mind. Future of Health Technology Institute considers this a model of leadership and innovation-skills that will surely be essential for dealing with the problems of the 21st century. | ||
| Future of Health Technology Award and MD Future of Health Technology Award give recognition to break-through innovators and leaders who made significant impact on the future of health technology. The first recipient of the Future of Health Technology Award (1997) was Professor Marvin Minsky - the symbol of creativity and innovation and one of the founders of the field of Artificial Intelligence. | ||
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The award
(1997-2005) was in the form of a statue of Asklepios (Greek God of
Healing and Medicine). According to myth, Asklepios was the son of
Apollo and Coronis. The wise Centaur Cheiron instructed him in the
art of healing and he developed such skill that he soon surpassed
his teacher and became known as the founder of MEDICAL SCIENCE. When
he used his knowledge to rise the dead Zeus killed him with a
thunderbolt. After the intervention of Apollo, Zeus relented and restored
him to life, making him the God of Medicine and setting his image
among the stars, holding his curative serpent staff. From 2006 the
award is in the form of a statue of Pegasus with crystal-diamond
eyes. In Greek mythology, Pegasus is regarded as the horse of Muses,
and has always been at the service of creative minds.
And so the story is told of a handsome youth who jumped on
the back of a horse that unfolded the splendor of a mighty set of
wings and soared towards the heavens… where he can still be seen
as the star constellation, Pegasus.
Recipients of the Future of Health Technology Awards are the
ones leading others with the inspiration to make the earth a better
place for human race: reducing suffering and maximizing the
potential for self-realization of the human kind. |