Technology Review has chosen its Young Innovators Under 35 — and honored UMass Amherst professor Kevin Fu as its Innovator of the Year.
Fu is a computer science professor doing research on preventing implanted medical devices from being hacked. At the 2008 Defcon hacker convention in Las Vegas, Fu and his team of researchers showed it was possible to get information such as Social Security numbers and medical diagnoses from implanted devices. They also showed that by impersonating the computer a defibrillator communicates with and wirelessly changing the settings, a hacker could send a fatal shock to a patient’s heart.
At the time, MHT talked to Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center researcher William Maisel, a member of the research team, about the project. In the video above, Fu explains his research at another hacker conference, Black Hat 2008.
Other New Englanders selected:
- José Gómez-Márquez, director of MIT’s Innovations in International Health
- Jorge Conde, CEO of Knome
- James Carey, co-founder, SiOnyx
- Pranav Mistry, MIT/SixthSense
- Kurt Zenz House, MIT/C12 Energy
- Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Harvard/MIT
- Andrew Perlman, GreatPoint Energy
Via Scott Kirsner.
Posted by Brendan Lynch
Tags: Andrew Perlman, Beth Israel Deaconess, C12 Energy, Erez Lieberman-Aiden, GreatPoint Energy, Innovations in International Health, Jorge Conde, José Gómez-Márquez, Kevin Fu, Knome, Kurt Zenz House, Pranav Mistry, SiOnyx, SixthSense, UMass Amherst, William Maisel, Young Innovators Under 35
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