Neurotechnology Salon

13 May 2002

Host: Bob Metcalfe ~ bmetcalfe@polarisventures.com

Organizer: Joost Bonsen ~ jpbonsen@alum.mit.edu

Sponsor: Polaris Venture Partners ~ http://www.polarisventures.com/

First Last Role(s) Organization(s) General Interest(s)

Maria Battaglia Marketing Partner Polaris Venture Capital

Joost Bonsen Salon Organizer/Grad Sloan Research Lab Strategy

Hans Breiter Doctor/Director MGH Motivation & Emotion Neuroscience

Bill Bulkley Journalist WSJ Science & Technology Reporting

Andrew Chess Professor Whitehead Olfactory Neurons

Suzanne Corkin Professor BCS Neural Basis of Memory & Cognition

Desh Deshpande Entrepreneur/Chairman Sycamore Innovation, Communications Systems

Don Eddington Researcher EECS/RLE Hearing Prostheses, Cochlear Implants

Rutledge Ellis-Behnke Graduate Student BCS Nerve Regeneration

Dennis Freeman Professor EECS/RLE Biological Transducers, MEMS

Sawyer Fuller Graduate Student BioEng/Media Neuronal Development

Shai Gozani Alum Entrepreneur/CEO Neurometrix Neuromuscular Diagnostics

Martha Gray Professor/Director EECS/HST Health Science & Technology

Rebecca Henderson Professor Sloan Technology Strategy, Pharmaceuticals

Hugh Herr Researcher EECS/AI Lab Musculoskeletal Prosthetics

Joe Jacobson Professor Media/MechE PEMS, NEMS, Molecular Engineering

Ferenc Jolesz Professor HMS Neuroradiology & Imaging

Fadi Karameh Researcher EECS Electrophysio, Neocortical Mechanisms

Lee Kearse Entrepreneur/EVP Health Performance Vision Screening & Diagnostics

Lily Kim Graduate Student EECS Neural Feedback & Control

Hur Koser Graduate Student EECS NeuroMEMS

Ray Kurzweil Alum Entrepreneur Kurzweil Co's AI, Intelligence Augmentation

Robert Lee Researcher CRC/HST Brain Neurotransmitters & Behavior

Guosong Liu Professor Bio/BCS Neural Plasticity

Mark Lundstrom Alum Entrepreneur Marked BioChips BioMEMS, diagnostics

Rick Macdonald Graduate Student HST Speech & Hearing Systems

Carl Marci Doctor MGH Electrodiagnostics

Steve Massaquoi Professor EECS/HST Sensorimotor Control

Terry McGuire Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Capital, Medical & IT

Bob Metcalfe Salon Host/Partner Polaris Venture Capital, IT

Marvin Minsky Professor Media/AI Society of Mind, Emotion Machines

Sanjoy Mitter Professor EECS/LIDS Complex Systems, Comunic’n & Control

Amir Nashat Graduate Student HST/ChemE Neuronal Network Substrates

Eve Phillips Alum Technologist Vector AI & Cognition

Chi-Sang Poon Researcher HST Autonomic Physiology & Engineering

Drazen Prelec Professor Sloan Marketing, Decision Neuropsychology

Liina Pylkkanen Graduate Student Linguistics Neurolinguistics

Carmichael Roberts Alum Entrepreneur SurfaceLogix Soft Lithography, BioAssays

Bruce Rosen Researcher/Director Martinos Functional & Structural Biomed Imaging

Rahul Sarpeshkar Professor EECS/RLE Neuromorphic VLSI

Jerry Schneider Professor BCS Central Nervous System Regeneration

Sebastian Seung Professor BCS Learning & Memory, Neural Modeling

Hazel Sive Professor Whitehead Neural Development in Vertebrates

Jean-Jacques Slotine Professor MechE/BCS Bio-Control, Robo-Adaptation/Learning

Alan Spoon Managing General Partner, Polaris Venture Capital, IT

Peter Spotts Journalist, Christian Science Monitor Science & Technology Reporting

Mandayam Srinivasan Researcher MechE/BE Human & Machine Haptics

Garrett Stanley Professor HU DBE Visual & Somatosensory Physiology

Oliver Steele Researcher Linguistics Lexical Semantics, Psycholinguistics Mriganka

Sur Professor/Head BCS Cortical Plasticity & Dynamics

Susumu Tonegawa Professor/Director, Picower Center for Learning & Memory, Brain Function & Dev’t

Sandy Wells Professor AI Lab/HMS Neuroimaging & Surgical Guidance

Sylvia Westphal Journalist New Scientist Science & Technology Reporting

Christoph Westphal General Partner Polaris Venture Capital, Medical

Matt Wilson Professor BCS Hippocampal Learning & Memory

Dick Wurtman Professor CRC/HST Brain Neurotransmitters & Behavior

John Wyatt Professor EECS/RLE Retinal Implants

Shuguang Zhang Researcher BioEng Self-Assembly, Neural Regeneration

Julianne Zimmerman Alum Technologist Payload Systems Human-Factors, System Engineering