Name: (inyoryKnniis, PhD .[distant PivJessoruJ Via mail hwuuvivh' Stanford I uin'iMt, What's your dream? M\ dad’s a physn tan I distint tly remember. when I was in grade si hud. lie told me that nerves were basic ally ekrtnt al I wontiered then why von couldn't wire those nerves toelet tn mu devices As it turns out, it’s a very complicated, fast man rig problem. In essent e, my dream is tt > trv to make diret 1connectk ms In mi prosthetic devk es ti i the human nervous system, and to learn a It it by cl< iing that along with my students ' What do you do? "Iiasi< ally, we Ye trying to make an interfaceIxiwtvn nerves- 01 what we call liveware' and hardware Hie puqxise is tot reate an artificial limb that rescinds dirts tly tt i |ks ijlie’s thoughts In essence, letting the human I rain a introl an anifit lal hand arm, or leg It's not a new idea, it's just that the teehnok igy kts-| is gt 1 ting liettei anti liettei And now it's in the realm of the |Xissilile The main thing we do involves silicon chips that translate Iletwtrn clean mu signals and nerve impulses* St i far we've implanted t hips in animal nerves and prt ivtsl that these t hips ein stimulate a netve.uitl ten ml signals (mm it essentially, talking hick and ft >rth tt) the brain In our wt irk, we use Mat intosh o imputeis to design chips, run expen ments, visualize data, anti wnte up our findings " Name: (Jins Catello Major area of study: hi duel Design Year: Mailer's Program, School of higimvnng Hometown: Art/ Yuri: Art/ Ymi What’s your dream? 1 want to design products that add tur lives tilings that celebrate how we live The world is ixxommg a itk ire and m< we h< >mr igenized place. and pn. ducts are bet < lining more and more alike i want tt > find a way to create pn ducts that are mass-pn xiueed. vet look like they were created In a craftsman, not a machine metai-cuttingequipment Hus pngram leLs .1 designer qxx ltv !< > tse [Xiramelers for a pn xlm t 'I hen the a wnputer itUKi-. >miv generates vanaiK >ns within those [parameters, and aut< xnaticnliv generates the oxie to drive tire metal-anting machine Ihe idea is that a manufacturer can nuke a pnxluct iwng advanced nusvpnxJuction manufacturing techniques hut ''till make each item , 1 \mt t tt )u it I#-1 What do you do? 'Tills quarter, I wnite a Macintosh pn igtam that cktnges the design and manufacturing pn«ess in some fundamental ways First, it's highly interactive', whic h pn >m< >res greater expit ram >n in the design pluse. Second, it randomizes the manufac tunng phase, alk wing fc ir vaitrn a is among the finished pn ducts Right nc w. I'm using this program to c rente spxx ms although it c ould lie Lulored toe reate car tenders, imvc le seats, howls,. a anything civ The pn gram ranckimlyrhc« " fnan different sizes, s< ales, and itetaticins c if shajxs that are sjxxmlike and presents thedesignt" with options Hverv time the designer runs the pi' gram, it reates .1 tcrtaJiv different sp ■ ' This way, designers can expk ire (x xssil iilitn that they ma\ u >t have c onjured up in then own minds The pnigram is aLv i c apablc cif mm x lu ulg rtndc imncss n 1 the manufac tunng pn x ess Triditionally, when it c 1 lint's to computer-ai< ki! manufac tunng, designer* usually havetogr.e -ei \ pres iv, completely planned crmtmands to dove f —; j What are you most proud of? Tni n nr (>f an ant mtalv at mv schx * >1 They an epted me inu > the graduate srhi * >1 of mo iunual engineering hut I don’t have an engineering hat kgr Hind I luve an under graduate tiegrer in design I'd never lone am programming imiore The idea that I aetually wrote s iftware that lieij >■ in the design pn x ess is wh.it I'm mi ist proud f Why Macintosh? Tve had this idea to lntnxlin e raixk mines'' or vanatit >n, t( i the design .uid manuhuiunng pnx ess ft ir a w hile now But \ mi know, it \\> mldn't have gone ! x v ond an idea it I didn't have a Mat inti «sh. I think it’s amazing that ttiere are tix'is \\>u i at: use ti i tk i si iinething like this Vm tk iri't have to lx* a its linok >gist ora theoretinan all vou luve to luve is an idea Macintosh lets meapph m\ art school Ixn kground in a very tea him al wt >rld and gt t verv't oncrete results Software: • ■ \ ■ pmprvmminp •A’. :/ A'n/> >' /no1, /•. softmuvcommum tJlinns •. l(/
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