Breakfast of Champions Entrepreneurship in Health and Technology Panel and interviews with Tim Bickmore, Jeff Robbins, and Frederick R. Blume     Thursday, 3/1 7:30 am - 9:30 am Pavilion at the Alumni Center PRESENTATION (PDF 848 KB)     Larry Finkelstein, Moderator NU College of Computer and Information Science, Dean Professor Finkelstein joined the College of Computer and Information Science in 1983 and has been Dean since 1994. Prior to his service at Northeastern University, he was a Professor of Mathematics at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and a member of the technical staffs of the Center for Communication Research in Princeton, New Jersey and the Mitre Corporation in Bedford, Massachusetts. He received the B.S. degree from the City College of New York, the M.S. degree from the University of Michigan and the PhD from the University of Birmingham in England. Professor Finkelstein's research expertise is in symbolic algebra and the development of algorithms for the solution of large-scale problems in mathematics, computer science and engineering. He has co-organized two workshops in this area at DIMACS, an NSF Science and Technology Center to support research in discrete mathematics and computer science. He co-edited the proceedings of these workshops which have both appeared in the DIMACS-AMS series published by the American Mathematics Society. He was a co-winner of the best paper award at the Mitre Corporation. During Professor Finkelstein’s tenure as Dean, the College has significantly expanded its research capabilities by building nationally recognized groups in programming Languages and software engineering, network security and distributed computing, database management and information retrieve and human computer interaction. He has also overseen a major expansion of the college’s PhD program in computer science, interdisciplinary undergraduate degree programs between computer and information science and the sciences, digital arts and business, and the introduction of interdisciplinary master’s programs in Information assurance with the College of Criminal Justice and health informatics with the Bouve College of Health Sciences. Professor Finkelstein is a member of the IT Dean’s working group of the Computing Research Association of America.     Tim Bickmore NU College of Computer & Information Science Dr. Bickmore is an Assistant Professor in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University. The focus of his research is on the development and evaluation of computer agents that emulate face-to-face interactions between health providers and patients for use in health education and long-term health behavior change interventions, with a particular focus on the emotional and relational aspects of these interactions. Prior to Northeastern, he spent two years as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Bickmore received his Ph.D. from MIT, doing his dissertation work in the Media Lab studying emotional interactions between people and animated computer characters.   Jeff Robbins LiveData, Inc. Jeff has led the company and served as its strategic and technology visionary since the company's founding in 1991. A passionate software innovator, Jeff led LiveData's early successes in manufacturing data acquisition and delivery at Ford, General Motors and Boeing. He extended LiveData's appeal to other markets, particularly the electric power industry, by supporting a broad range of industry protocols and offering an open architecture solution for real-time data integration. In 2003 Jeff propelled LiveData into the healthcare market, winning a US Army SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Phase I award and joining CIMIT , the Center for the Integration of Medicine and Technology, where LiveData has led data integration for the Operating Room of the Future. Prior to founding LiveData, Jeff was CEO and founder of Cambridge Authoring Systems. He is Co-Chairman of CIMIT's Plug and Play Medical Device Communication Standards Working Group, Member of the US Advisory Board to the ISO & International Electrotechnical Commission, and Senior Technical Advisor to the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. Jeff earned an AB in Philosophy with Honors from Harvard College.     Frederick R. Blume CB Health Ventures Prior to co-founding Excel Medical Ventures, Mr. Blume co-founded CB Health Ventures (CBHV) with Dr. Enrico Petrillo and two partners who were based in New York. Prior to co-founding CBHV, Mr. Blume was the founding partner of American Healthcare Fund (AH Fund I), American Healthcare Fund II (AH Fund II), and their management partnerships, Capital Health Management and Capital Health Venture Partners (Capital Health). Prior to co-founding CBHV, Mr. Blume was the founding partner of American Healthcare Fund (AH Fund I), American Healthcare Fund II (AH Fund II), and their management partnerships, Capital Health Management and Capital Health Venture Partners (Capital Health). Mr. Blume founded Capital Health in 1986 after 17 years of corporate finance experience in healthcare with Bank of America, Kidder Peabody, Blyth Eastman Dillon, and Paine Webber (now UBS). Mr. Blume did his undergraduate work at Stanford University and the University of the Pacific, and he received his M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.