[bioundgrd] Fwd: Spring X PRIZE course in Bionics - now accepting applications

[Janice Chang]

>From: "erika wagner" <erika at MIT.EDU>
>Subject: Spring X PRIZE course in Bionics - now accepting applications
>Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:04:06 -0500
>
>
>Please help us distribute this course announcement to students in 
>your department.
>Thank you!
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>Join the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT for our spring course on creating 
>revolutionary innovations in bionics!
>
>ESD.173J/SP.792J/HST.937J
>X PRIZE Workshop: Grand Challenges in Healthcare
>Spring 2009 -- BIONICS
>MW 2:30-4:00, G-level (3-0-6)
>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.
>
>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.
>
>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.
>
>Backgrounds in engineering, science, business and medicine all welcomed.
>
>Enrollment is limited, so apply today: 
><http://web.mit.edu/xprize>http://web.mit.edu/xprize
>Questions? Email <mailto:xprize at mit.edu>xprize at mit.edu
>
>
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>"Never doubt that a small, group of thoughtful,
>  committed citizens can change the world.
>  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
>                      ~*~ Margaret Mead
>
>Dr. Erika B. Wagner
>w: 617.253.0017
>erika at mit.edu, elb at alumni.vanderbilt.edu
>Science Director, Mars Gravity Biosatellite
><http://www.marsgravity.org>http://www.marsgravity.org
>Executive Director, X PRIZE Lab @ MIT
><http://web.mit.edu/xprize>http://web.mit.edu/xprize
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