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  1. Personal Experience: (was:Brain Surgery Robot ...) on Brain Surgery Robot Running Linux · · Score: 1

    just had had brain surgery [1] where I thought that some automation would have been desireable [See the setscrews and sliders on the stereotaxic frame (pages 14 & 15 of [1] )] . You can imagine my alarm when I saw one of the neurosurgeon's computers with a Windoze screen. Fortunately for me it turned out to be an off-line brain mapping tool. The "blue screen of death" could have become all too literal. It turns out that one of my surgeon's residents, Sherwin Hua, MD PhD [2] is actually working on automating some of the surgery I had. I'm looking forward to a talk that he'll be giving next month. Bill Bill.Innanen@mindspring.com [1] http://mac2.innanen.com/~bill/parkinsons/DBSSurger y/ [2] http://www.neuro.jhmi.edu/nustrn/residents/hua.htm l