Thursday, April 29, 2010

2010 Stanford Road Trip

This is a great trip with Dr. Chatterjee to Stanford. On Thursday morning, I cannot really fall sleep because I was too excited for this trip to Stanford, even though this my fourth time be there. This time is kind of official visiting trip to see the latest research and institution. After sleeping 2 hours, I had to wake up for the morning flight .

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Gosh.... it's really early
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It's boarding time. still can see the fog in the morning!
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It's always amazing to look through the window of airplane during the flight

After we arrived San Jose International airport, we had to go rental car company to pick up our minivan to Stanford University. I am glad to let Sam drive for us because I almost fall sleep at that time.

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 Less people in the airport, it's only 8:30 when we arrived San Jose

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What do you want to drive? A minivan!!!

In fact, this is my fist official visit to Stanford. I got shock of the campus. It's definitely beautiful. When we arrive Stanford, we went to visit the Media-X lab to see the latest research about social media and technology. Dr. Martha G Russell gave us a great presentation. I also notice their amazing work environment in Media X lab. hope one day I got chance to work with most advanced partner and environment in the world like Stanford University.

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Beautiful Campus
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This must be some smart guy in Stanford.
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This is the Logo of Media X and Lek wasing say hi to me
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Dr. Martha G Russell gives us presentation about the latest research in social media and technology.

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The work environment is really amazing to me. This must be the biggest research lab I've ever seen

After a quick lunch in Stanford, we went to Dr. B.J. Foggs class and participate the lecture with Stanford students. B.J. Foggs is the pioneer researcher of persuasive technology. I really learn some new idea about persuasive technology through  his lecture. Also, Stanford students really surprise me. Their reaction in class is really quick and their idea of class project is pretty surprising. I really like the idea about the Google Chrome extenstion that can enhace the users' interaction with social networking websites.


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This class is kind of crowded, but the students are really amazing!!
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This is B.J. Foggs, the pioneer researcher of persuasive technology

After the little discussion with B.J. Foggs, we went back to Media X to have another lecture about the virtual clinic environment research. This is also the pioneer research of clinical simulation research. The virtual system is called CliniSpace powered by Unity.

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CliniSpace is new virtual clinical environment to enhance patient and physicians' experience.

After this lecture, finally we got to Sheraton hotel, I am really exhausted. but I still have another activity with mother's old friend. Uncle Lin brought me to have a trip to Apple's headquarter (this is my dream) and a great hometown dinner in Silicon Valley.  I took a picture in front of the landmark of "Infinite Loop" with my new iPad(the  Apple's latest product so far )

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The Famous "Infinite Loop" of Apple's headquarter
I would say I accomplish another dream of my life :D

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My hometown food in Taiwan called hún tún(Wonton 餛飩) Wiki link about Wonton

The second day we went to Oakland and had another visiting to Public Health Institute.

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Somewhere in Oakland (I fell sleep on the way... I don't know where I am)
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great discussion in PHI
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Great view of Oakland

After HPI, we went back to Standford to visit CAPE to visit the most advanced surgical simulation center in the world. With real-context simulation environment and professional expert, the trainees can have precise and efficient training.

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CAPE center
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The idea is the same as training baseball player, practice, practice,practice
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this is all about life and death. The real-world context baby object to train the doctors
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The simulation also works with vital monitor and real surgical instrument
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The expert will supervise the training and control the simulation environment and scenario
to ensure the quality of training.

This is a great trip to open my mind about the advanced research and the potential simulation. hope next time I can have another trip to Stanford.

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Hoover Tower in Stanford
More pictures about the trip are in my Flickr album