Neurotech Beat
5 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Tracing progress in neurotechnology.
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#4 - Dr. John Wikswo: Biophysics, Electrophysiology, and Systems Biology
January 17, 2022 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBDr. John Wikswo is a biological physicist from Vanderbilt University. He earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Stanford University in 1975, prior to working as a postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cardiology at Stanford. Shortly after, he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University in the Department of Physics. Early in his career, he and his colleagues made the first measurements of the magnetic field of a single axon fiber. Dr. Wikswo has contributed extensively to biophysics, cardiac electrophysi...
#3 - Dr. Michael Bess: Morality, World War II, Foucault, and Bioenhancement
January 10, 2022 20:21 - 1 hour - 67.7 MBDr. Michael Bess is an author and Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He completed his undergraduate studies in philosophy at Reed College in 1979 and earned a doctorate in history from UC Berkeley in 1989. At Vanderbilt University, Dr. Bess has written and taught extensively on 20th- and 21st-century Europe, environmentalism, and human bioenhancement. In this interview, Dr. Bess and I explore his thoughts on WWII, human evil, morality, ethics, his interview with Mic...
#2 - Dr. Gregory Welch: Voyager, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Kalman Filter
November 17, 2021 22:53 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBGregory Welch, PhD, a computer scientist and a 2020 UCF Pegasus Professor, is the AdventHealth Endowed Chair in Healthcare Simulation in the UCF College of Nursing, Co-director of the UCF Synthetic Reality Laboratory, and a Professor of Computer Science, Modeling & Simulation. Dr. Welch studied electrical engineering at Purdue and went on to obtain a PhD under Dr. Gary Bishop at UNC Chapel Hill. During his doctoral work, he published an internationally-recognized technical report titled, "A...
#1 - Dr. William DeCampli: Astrophysicist turned Heart Surgeon
August 30, 2021 12:45 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBWilliam DeCampli, MD, PhD, a pediatric cardiac surgeon, is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Center at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, FL. He also serves as Professor of Surgery at the UCF College of Medicine. Dr. DeCampli is also Managing Director of the Data Center of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, which is located at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. As this interview explores, Dr. DeCampli has been a success in a multitude o...
Dr. William DeCampli: Astrophysicist turned Heart Surgeon
August 30, 2021 12:45 - 52 minutes - 48.5 MBWilliam DeCampli, MD, PhD, a pediatric cardiac surgeon, is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Center at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children in Orlando, FL. He also serves as Professor of Surgery at the UCF College of Medicine. Dr. DeCampli is also Managing Director of the Data Center of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, which is located at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. As this interview explores, Dr. DeCampli has been a success in a multitude o...