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<blockquote type="cite" cite>From: "erika wagner"
<erika@MIT.EDU></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Subject: Spring X PRIZE course in Bionics
- now accepting applications</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:04:06
-0500</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Times New Roman">Please help
us distribute this course announcement to students in your
department.</font><br>
<font face="Times New Roman">Thank you!</font><br>
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<font face="Arial">Join the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT for our spring course on
creating revolutionary innovations in bionics!</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Arial"><b>ESD.173J/SP.792J/HST.937J<br>
X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Healthcare</b><br>
<b>Spring 2009 -- BIONICS</b></font><br>
<font face="Arial">MW 2:30-4:00, G-level (3-0-6)</font><br>
<font face="Arial">In 2004, the Ansari X PRIZE for suborbital
spaceflight captured the public's imagination, leveraging a $10M prize
into over $100M in innovation. Now the X PRIZE Foundation is
developing new prizes to focus innovation around other "Grand
Challenge" themes, including healthcare, energy &
environment, exploration, and global entrepreneurship.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Our spring X PRIZE
Workshop is all about generating revolutionary breakthroughs in the
life sciences, and this year's teams will focus on the massive
breakthroughs that can be achieved in the field of bionics. We will
examine the intersection of incentives and innovation, drawing on
economic models, historic examples, and analytic tools to help develop
new prize concepts for sparking the kinds of change that will change
the way the world thinks about augmented human performance,
brain-machine interfaces, and revolutionary new prosthetics
technologies.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">The course will be
highly action-oriented, with a mixture of lectures, interactive
activities, and panel discussions with industry leaders. As a term
project, interdisciplinary teams of 3-5 students will work to further
explore the Grand Challenge theme of Bionics and to develop a
fully-formed prize concept to present to members of the X PRIZE
Board.</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Backgrounds in
engineering, science,<font color="#000000"> business</font> and
medicine all welcomed.<br>
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<font face="Arial"><b>Enrollment is limited, so apply
today:</b></font> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/xprize"><font
face="Arial"
color="#0000FF"><u>http://web.mit.edu/xprize</u></font></a><br>
<font face="Arial">Questions? Email</font> <a
href="mailto:xprize@mit.edu"><font face="Arial"
color="#0000FF"><u>xprize@mit.edu</u></font></a><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font
face="Arial">====================================</font><br>
<font face="Arial">"Never doubt that a small, group of
thoughtful,</font><br>
<font face="Arial"> committed citizens can change the
world.</font><br>
<font face="Arial"> Indeed, it is the only thing that ever
has."</font><br>
<font
face="Arial"
> <span
></span> ~*~
Margaret Mead</font><br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial">Dr. Erika B.
Wagner</font><br>
<font face="Arial">w: 617.253.0017</font><br>
<font face="Arial">erika@mit.edu, elb@alumni.vanderbilt.edu</font><br>
<font face="Arial">Science Director, Mars Gravity
Biosatellite</font><br>
<a href="http://www.marsgravity.org"><font face="Arial"
color="#0000FF"><u>http://www.marsgravity.org</u></font></a><br>
<font face="Arial">Executive Director, X PRIZE Lab @ MIT</font><br>
<a href="http://web.mit.edu/xprize"><font face="Arial"
color="#0000FF"><u>http://web.mit.edu/xprize</u></font></a></blockquote
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