Apple Science Profiles

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Welcome to Apple Science Profiles. In this lineup of podcast stories, you'll learn how scientists are using Mac technology throughout their workflow - for computation, visualization, analysis, and general productivity. Viewpoints from all walks of science will be discussed - from medicine to paleontology, bioinformatics to physics, archaeology to oceanography. Find out how researchers are accelerating their time to insight and discovery using Apple hardware, the Mac OS X platform, and advanced applications made for Mac.

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Author Claire Nouvian

Jan 25 2010 8 mins

This Apple Science podcast features Claire Nouvian, a French journalist who became fascinated with the deep-sea after seeing a museum exhibit in 2001. She wanted to see and learn more, but soon discovered how few materials were available. This motivated her to collect the countless photos she knew must be scattered in the computers of deep-sea scientists around the globe. Nouvian a

PathCon Laboratories

Dec 14 2009 7 mins

This Apple Science podcast features CEO Brian Shelton and Director of Technology Joseph Canady of PathCon Laboratories. From two 100% Mac computer based facilities, researchers fight against pathogenic menaces such as MRSA, Legionella, Anthrax, and virulent new strains of influenza. Their Mac-based workflow includes multiple MacBook Pros, Mac Pros, iMacs and Xserve servers. Proprie

Dr. Fernando Cucchietti

Nov 30 2009 7 mins

This Apple Science podcast features Dr. Fernando Cucchietti, scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory who credits his presentation skills in giving him an advantage when applying for grants—and even in helping him get his job. Cucchietti uses a combination of tools to build graphics for his presentations, ultimately importing and organizing his files in Keynote, part of Apple�

Building A Better Pre-Clinical PET Imaging System

Nov 16 2009 10 mins

This Apple Science podcast features Professor Tom Lewellen in the Department of Radiology’s Nuclear Medicine Division at the University of Washington. He and his team are designing Mac-based imaging systems that give investigators a closer look at metabolic functions in a mouse that weighs about an ounce. The primary design goal of these pre-clinical research tools is higher reso

MIT Media Laboratory: The Human Speechome Project

Nov 02 2009 10 mins

This Apple Science podcast features MIT’s Deb Roy, whose Human Speechome Project at the MIT Media Lab is exploring how children learn language. In its observation phase, the project will archive 200,000 hours of audio and video recordings, nearly a petabyte of data. Macintosh Xserves and Xserve RAIDs, interfaced with other computing platforms, collect, process, and store the vast

Digital Medical Imaging for Pets

Oct 19 2009 9 mins

This Apple Science podcast features Michael Broome, DVM, a principal at Advanced Veterinary Medical Imaging in Tustin, California. He was unhappy with the hardware and software costs of commercially available image viewing systems. He wanted a Picture Archive Communication System that would enable him to share DICOM images on high-quality viewing stations across his network; reduce

Great Ormond Street Hospital

Oct 05 2009 8 mins

This podcast features Professor Martin Elliott, who practices cardiothoracic surgery on children at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital. His team needed to capture videos of challenging surgical procedures so to share with other professionals and students. He had been recording them on tape, but wanted to record them directly as digital files. He also needed to enable the team�

Hartford Hospital Stroke Clinic

Sep 21 2009 8 mins

This Apple Science podcast features Dr. Gary Spiegel, Co-Medical Director of the Hartford Hospital Stroke Center, where Apple technology was implemented to reduce costs and to enable more innovative ways of addressing critical stroke care. Dr. Spiegel needed a reliable way to archive the big images produced in the angiography suite. The hospital’s picture archive communication sy

Image and Meaning

Sep 07 2009 10 mins

This Apple in science podcast features the “Picturing to Learn” program. The event was held at Apple headquarters in Cupertino, the third in a series of regional workshops growing out of an innovative project launched in 2001 by Felice Frankel, then a science photographer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Frankel brought leading scientists from a wide range of disci

Brian Cox

Aug 24 2009 7 mins

This Apple science podcast features physicist Dr. Brian Cox of the University of Manchester. He works as a particle physicist at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, where the world’s biggest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will attempt to recreate the Big Bang in miniature. Cox has gained a following for his presentation skills and ability to communicate complex ide