and six foreign patents to date reflect innovations in tele-ophthalmology and ocular healthcare, including worldwide accessible visual performance tests, smartphone-based ophthalmic examination devices, a wireless implantable intraocular pressure sensor system to assist glaucoma therapy, and performance improvements for visual prostheses that advance the visual experience for the blind. I’m eager to see what he will do next,” said Hahn.įink helped bring several vision-related devices and diagnostic technologies to market. He continually expands ideas of what is possible through optical engineering, which has applications for medicine, space exploration and other disciplines. “I’m glad to see Wolfgang recognized for his impressive career. Berge Dean of the College of Engineering, said the award is well-deserved. Companies and federal research centers, such as Honeywell Corporation and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, or JPL, have also received the award.įink is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering who holds the inaugural Edward & Maria Keonjian Endowed Chair in Microelectronics and additional associate professorships in aerospace and mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, ophthalmology and vision science, and systems and industrial engineering.ĭavid W. Awardees include individuals, such as Tatsuo Harada at Hitachi, Ltd., who advanced optical grating technology, and married team Jean and Harold Bennett, who invented new precision optomechanics at the U.S. Unwilling to really listen to the "common man" he professes to champion, pathetically convinced of his own talent, Barton Fink is too busy making up stories to actually live any.SPIE, or the International Society for Optics and Photonics, has recognized some of the top minds in optics and photonics technology with this award since 1979, according to Jennifer Barton, president-elect of SPIE and director of the UA’s BIO5 Institute. Apart from the usual enticements you'd expect from Joel and Ethan Coen - performances to knock your block off from Turturro, Goodman, Lerner as the horrendous studio chief and Judy Davis as the love interest visual flourishes aplenty a literate, witty screenplay - what we have here is a subtle assault on the arrogant obsessions of certain kinds of writers. As he desperately tries to get going on the B-picture wrestling opus he's been commissioned to write ("It's a wrestling picture - whaddya want, a road map?"), Barton's world gradually closes in, with everything becoming not what it seemed to be - from whether Goodman is who he says he is, to whether Barton's novelist hero actually writes his own books.įinally, in the utterly Coen-esque and violently compelling denoument, nothing, of course, is neatly resolved. Once he's effortlessly sold out his "art" to take a contract at Capitol Pictures, however, he finds himself holed up in a very bizarre hotel with John Goodman for a neighbour and a blank piece of paper for company. The brilliant John Turturro is, of course, the Barton of the title, a self-pitying, self-absorbed, self-conscious 1940s playwright whose patronising homilies to The Common Man have done him proud in New York's theatrical circles, and who is now in being feted by Hollywood.
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