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Quotation of the Day for December 14, 2003
"If you go to one of the major hospitals here in Boston for brain surgery, you're going to have a surgeon assisted by AI systems developed at the [MIT AI] lab. The first few times this was running we had grad students in the [operating room] rebooting Unix at critical points. Now we're way past that--we don't have any one of our own staff there. It's all handed over to the surgeons and the hospital staff, and it's working well. They use it for every surgery."
- Professor Rodney Brooks explains why folks undergoing brain surgery at a major Boston hospital should feel comfortable today.
[http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/brooks_beyond/beyond_index.html]
Submitted by: John S. Karabaic
Dec. 1, 2003