Peter Shann Ford is an Australian CEO, bionics software developer, author, and former journalist and news anchor. He has earned name and fame at his age because of his inventions.
He was the first Australian news anchor on CNN in Atlanta.
He was also working for a US Government Rehabilitation Research and Development Lab at that city’s Veterans Administration. Both roles required new forms of communication.
In the lab, serving with scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Peter’s mission was to create substitute ways of controlling a computer, to enable firmly disabled people to communicate again, without needing a keyboard or mouse.
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In 2000 Peter was asked to consult with Prof. Bernard Brucker, of the University of Miami School of Medicine in Florida, regarding a victim who had been unable to move – not even blink – in more than a decade after a car accident.
Peter coded a program that identified specific patterns in the neuroelectric (EMG) signals in the patient’s arm, allowing him to make the computer responsible for the first time since his accident.
That first sound was a single “beep” from the computer, but it marked the shattering of walls isolating him from the world.
Immediately, Peter began developing that first program into a more complex system that allowed a person who was “locked in,” unable to move or speak, select text on a screen and have it “spoken” in a computer-generated voice. He named the system NeuroSwitch.
Peter Ford Age
There is no information on the age of Peter Ford.
Judging his pictures, he looks like he is in his mid-fifties. He has achieved a lot of things in his half-century of life.
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In 2002 Prof. Stephen Hawking invited Peter to demonstrate the program at Cambridge University.
The following year, Prof. Hawking asked Peter and his colleague – computer scientist James Schorey, CEO of Therapeutic Alliances, which made the EMG monitor that captured the data for Peter’s software – to install a unit on his powered wheelchair.
