University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh research university involved in BrainGate2 trials and home to the CADUCEUS medical expert system developed by Harry Pople.
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BrainGate2 Participants Use Thought-Controlled Robotic Arm to Reach and Grasp
In May 2012, researchers in the BrainGate2 clinical trial, led by Leigh Hochberg and colleagues at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brown University, and affiliated institutions, demonstrated that two participants with tetraplegia could use neural signals decoded from a 96-electrode intracortical array to control a robotic arm and perform reach-and-grasp tasks without manual assistance.
CADUCEUS Medical Expert System (Pople, University of Pittsburgh)
Harry Pople at the University of Pittsburgh developed CADUCEUS (originally called INTERNIST-1) during the late 1970s and early 1980s, publishing a detailed account in 1982. The system encoded diagnostic knowledge for several hundred internal medicine diseases and was among the most comprehensive medical diagnosis programs of its era.
INTERNIST-I Developed by Jack D. Myers and Harry E. Pople Jr.
Jack D. Myers and Harry E. Pople Jr. at the University of Pittsburgh developed INTERNIST-I, an expert system for internal medicine diagnosis, with its principal public evaluation published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1982. The system encoded knowledge of roughly 500 diseases and 3,500 symptoms, demonstrating that algorithmic clinical reasoning could approach specialist performance on complex cases.