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Sunday, February 22, 2004
Progress in Artificial Vision Research for Harvard-MIT Team
From the Harvard Gazette ('Electric eye under development', February 19, 2004) comes news of progress in the field of artificial vision:
The research team includes researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Severely blind people have been able to temporarily see patterns of light with the help of an electric device developed by a Harvard-M.I.T. research team.
Five people with retinitis pigmentosa, the leading cause of inherited blindness, reported seeing spots and lines of light with the help of the device. A sixth person, about to lose her sight to cancer, also saw the light patterns.
The research team includes researchers from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary (an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Research Laboratory of Electronics, and the Boston Veterans Administration Medical Center.
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