About Us
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvnaia in biochemistry, and attending Cambridge University, England as a Thouron Scholar in biophysics, he graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1973, followed by ophthalmology training at Massachusettes Eye and Ear Infirmary and a fellowship in vitreoretinal diseases at the University of Wisconsin. He then practiced in full time academic vitreoretinal surgery for 20 years, first at Univ. of Penn and then at Drexel-Hahnemann Medical School where he developed the Department of Ophthalmollgy as Professor and Chairman...
Peter Presti, the Chief Operating Officer for Sinclair Technologies, is the Co-Director of the Georgia Tech Wearable Computing Center with two decades of experience designing and implementing sensor systems for a wide variety of applications. Early in his career he developed a pressure-based 3D digitizer based on a translucent silicone rubber. This approach gave robots a sense of touch. When Bluetooth radio integrated circuits became available he repurposed them into motion sensors for an activity recognition system...
Lawrence A. Husick’s extensive experience as a technology consultant, computer system designer, and software author, as well as his career as an intellectual property lawyer give him a unique perspective on the need to focus on innovation as a central pedagogical theme. As a co-director of the FPRI Wachman Center Program on Teaching Innovation, he applies his background in both law and technology to the study of innovation as an organizing principle of history, science and technology, economics, and sociology...
