Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG OBE was head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), a role known informally as “C”, from 1999 until 2004.
Imagine COVID-19 testing being cheap and fast…
COVID-19 testing is a key step in gaining control over the spread of the pandemic. Technion Profs. Hossam Haick of the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Naama Geva-Zatorsky, of the Faculty of Medicine
ReWalk: Webinar with Dr Amit Goffer and Claire Lomas MBE
Dr. Amit Goffer experienced a tragic accident that confined him to a wheelchair – as an accomplished inventor and entrepreneur, he didn’t accept his fate to never stand up right again and immediately started to develop alternative modes of transport to the traditional wheelchair.
In 2001 he created the ReWalk system, the first commercially available exoskeleton. Due to the severity of his injury, Amit couldn’t use it himself, but hundreds of thousands of people could benefit from it. (Amit is a quadriplegic – ReWalk is designed for paraplegics).
More recently, he developed UPnRIDE to provide full mobility in a standing position in almost any urban environment. That is something that Amit, as a quadriplegic, has benefited from.
Technion Australia and the University of Melbourne are welcomed Amit and Jim Patrick AO, VP and Chief Scientist Emeritus at Cochlear. Cochlear is among Australia’s most iconic brands and has given deaf people the gift of hearing for almost 40 years. Cochlear designs, manufactures and distributes innovative hearing implants.
Jim has been involved in Cochlear implant research and commercial development since 1975, when he joined Graeme Clark’s research team. In 1981 he moved to Sydney as a member of the Cochlear “Tiger Team” inside the Nucleus group, developing a ‘clinically applicable’ Cochlear implant. He has been a member of Cochlear’s leadership team having at different times responsibility for R&D, Clinical Research and Manufacturing. Jim is now working with Melbourne based start-up Carbon Cybernetics to develop a brain machine interface for the treatment of epilepsy.
Published by: Technion Australia
SThe importance of the quality of sleep. Professor Peretz Lavie in conversation with Daniel Glaser PhD.
Some of our best scientists and entrepreneurs talk about their work, their life choices, and make predictions for the future.
David Samuel (intro), member of the Technion Board of Governors
03:46 – Irit Idan, VP of R&D, Rafael
13:17 – Oskar Mencer, CEO of Maxeler Technologies Maxeler
22:07 – Michael Bronstein, Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter
33:57 – Panel discussion David Samuel Hosts the event.
A member of Technion Board of Governors, with a long international career with startups and large companies alike Dr Irit Idan Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Rafael Defence, one of Israel’s largest Defence companies Oskar Mencer Founder and CEO of Maxeler Technologies, former Consulting Professor in Geophysics at Stanford University Michael Bronstein Computer Scientist and Entrepreneur, Chair of Machine Learning at Imperial CollegeHead of Graph Learning Research at Twitter
