ViewpointHRS 40th anniversary viewpoints: What’s it all about?
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My career
I was a music major my first 2 years of college, but I graduated with a degree in chemistry in 1965. I went to work briefly for IBM where I first saw a computer. It consisted of several 6-foot racks that filled 1 wall and contained 8K words of memory. I then went to medical and graduate schools, graduating in 1974. My research involved the use of computers to solve the inverse problem in which the electrical activity of the heart is estimated from recordings on the body surface. This was just
What I’d like to share
I was speaking to Dr José Jalife a few years ago and waxing philosophically, probably attempting to reconcile my failure to get a grant application funded. Dr Jalife said to Dr Mario Delmar that I was talking like an old man. I didn’t take offense for 2 reasons. One, many years earlier, Dr Jalife had introduced me to the artisanal products of Giuseppe Quintarelli (now made by his grandson Francesco), for which I am exceedingly grateful. Two, I am an old man, so I should talk like one.
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