FREE patient and family conference about Aplastic Anemia & MDS

If you're in the Boston area, you may wish to recommend this free patient and family conference for people who have aplastic anemia, MDS, or PNH.

When:

Saturday, May 14, 2011
8:30 am to 5:00 pm

Where:

Westin Waltham-Boston
70 Third Avenue
Waltham, MA 02451

This FREE conference will bring you face-to-face with leading medical experts, connect you to more than 100 other patients and their families, and leave you feeling hopeful and energized. Whether you are newly diagnosed patient, a long-term survivor, a caregiver or friend of a patient, this conference will have something for you.

MDS - Mobile Dexterous Social

I must be on a robots kick right now. I love robots and I especially love the fact that so much is happening at my favorite schools (MIT and UMass Amherst).

MDS doesn't stand for Myelodysplastic Syndrome if you're with the MIT Personal Robots Group. Instead, it stands for: Mobile Dexterous Social

Meet Nexi

Nexi has a face that is capable of displaying various emotions. This was made possible through collaborative efforts with Xitome Design. Doesn't the chassis remind you of a Segway? The chassis was developed by the Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics - University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Perhaps one of the most fascinating aspects of Nexi involves the social learning component. How do robots learn to interact with people? If Nexi can mimic human expression, that can elevate the level of communication with people. After all, we're naturally expressive beings and emotions play a key part of our lives.