Dr. Corinna Lathan on Optimizing the Interaction between People and Technology

Dr. Lath­an will dis­cuss Opti­miz­ing the Inter­ac­tion between Peo­ple and Tech­nol­o­gy, at the upcom­ing 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit (June 7–14th, 2012).

Corin­na Lath­an is the CEO & Co-Founder of Anthro­Tronix. Dr. Lathan’s diverse back­ground includes research, teach­ing, and con­sult­ing in the areas of human per­for­mance engi­neer­ing, med­ical device design, and assis­tive tech­nol­ogy. Pre­vi­ously, Dr. Lath­an was an Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Bio­med­ical Engi­neer­ing at The Catholic Uni­ver­sity of Amer­ica (CUA) and an Adjunct Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Aero­space Engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­sity of Mary­land, Col­lege Park. Her work with chil­dren with dis­abil­i­ties and robot­ics has been fea­tured in Forbes, Time, and the New York­er mag­a­zines as well as led to such dis­tinc­tions as Maryland’s  “Top Inno­va­tor of the Year,” MIT Tech­nol­ogy Review Magazine’s “Top 100 World Inno­va­tors,” and one of Fast Com­pany Mag­a­zines “Most Cre­ative Peo­ple in Busi­ness.” She has also been named a Tech­nol­ogy Pio­neer and a Young Glob­al Leader by the World Eco­nomic Forum and is cur­rently on their Glob­al Agen­da Coun­cil for Robot­ics and Smart devices. She is active­ly involved in edu­ca­tional out­reach pro­grams that empow­er women and minori­ties in sci­ence and technology.

–> To learn more about her work, you can check out:

–> To Learn More about the 2012 Sum­mit and to Reg­is­ter: click on 2012 Sharp­Brains Vir­tu­al Sum­mit: Opti­miz­ing Health through Neu­ro­plas­tic­i­ty, Inno­va­tion and Data (June 7–14th).

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