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