Alan Macy

Alan Macy is the Research and Development Director, past President and a founder of BIOPAC Systems, Inc. Alan manages development of life science measurement systems and works in magnetic resonance imaging, virtual reality, wireless physiological monitoring, sensors and smart textiles. Alan has developed curriculum and designed teaching systems to support life science education worldwide.

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  • Beauty and the Origin of Electrophysiology, Telecommunications and the Global Theater
    Day: Saturday | Duration: 30 min. | Location: Fishbon Proscenium

    In the pivotal years 1791-1794, methods developed by Galvani and Volta establish the basis for the scientific fields of electrophysiology and telecommunications. Galvani’s twitching frog leads to the understanding that electricity mediates the flow of information inside the body. Volta’s battery created a stable power source for the efforts of Faraday, Oersted and Ohm. Human nervous system extension took a leap forward with the development of the telephone in 1876. Electricity moving inside the body could now directly mediate the flow of electricity outside the body, at a high bit rates. In the last 220 years, the human nervous system has been extended via evolving telecommunications technology. We now augment voice and image data transfer with techniques that offer new human-sourced data, such as emotional state.

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