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<p class="MsoNormal">Wow!!! This is really amazing! Congrats to all involved!! <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Autonlab-users <autonlab-users-bounces@autonlab.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Artur Dubrawski<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 20, 2020 12:36 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> users@autonlab.org; Howie Choset <choset@cs.cmu.edu>; John Michael Galeotti <jgaleotti@cmu.edu>; Srinivasa G Narasimhan <srinivas@andrew.cmu.edu>; Martial Hebert <hebert+@cs.cmu.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> proud moment<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I am very proud of the recent accomplishments of a team of Auton Lab members led by<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">who have just managed to pull off an almost impossible feat. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">As many of you might have known, they were building a new monitoring and resuscitation control system for an animal operating room at Pitt School of Medicine, to enable our partners there to conduct experiments in the scope of the DoD TRACIR
project. The first surgeries were scheduled for this week, and it was assumed that our team would physically assist the clinicians on site to help the transition and troubleshoot any emerging issues, since such an advanced system has never been used before.
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, Anthony and Team - at an incredibly short notice - managed to remotely configure the system for remote monitoring and remote troubleshooting, allowing - as of today - two successful surgeries, without being physically present on
site at all. And yes, some troubleshooting was needed in the process.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I like to compare Anthony's operation to NASA Mission Control Center (the picture below, of what appears to be his home office, even bears some similarity). But NASA staff their spacecraft with astronauts highly trained in operating their
systems, the luxury Anthony and Team did not have.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Congrats Anthony and Team!<o:p></o:p></p>
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