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SPECIAL SEMINAR
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    ASTRO TELLER
    Chief Executive Officer, BodyMedia, Inc.

       A COMPUTER-SCIENCE-EYE-VIEW: Realities of
       Entrepreneurship and Startup Product Development

   Tuesday, 14 November
   4:30 pm
   Wean Hall 7500


   ABSTRACT
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Astro Teller, the CEO of BodyMedia, will take the
audience on a tour of some of the realities of engineering
in the midst of constraints from Design, Marketing,
and the pressures of growing a sustainable business.
Stops on the tour will include "Engineering meets
HCI and Experience Design," "Engineering meets
E-commerce," and "Engineering is asked to do
Invention, Advanced Development, and Production
all at the same time".

BodyMedia is a healthy lifestyle company whose unique
system provides users with a highly personalized approach
to establishing and tracking a balanced lifestyle. The
company's wearable monitoring products and interactive
Internet services allow individuals to track their personal
daily health routines, enabling them to play a more
proactive role in their wellness management.

  ABOUT THE SPEAKER
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       Astro Teller is Chief Executive Officer and a
co-founder of BodyMedia. He is a Hertz fellow,
computer scientist, and fiction novelist. Astro holds
a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon.
A master's degree in Symbolic and Heuristic
  Computation and a bachelor's degree in Computer
Science were both obtained from Stanford University. He
holds a patent for the automatic pattern recognition of
complex signals such as images, sounds, text, and
physiological data.

Astro's work in science, literature, art, and business
have appeared in international media from the New
York Times to CNN to NPR's "All Things Considered." Astro
has worked as the CEO of SANDbOX Advanced Development,
as a teacher at Stanford University, an algorithmic
consultant at Phoenix Laser Technologies, a researcher at
Stanford's Center for Integrated Systems, and a senior
engineer at Carnegie Group Incorporated.