Dr. Barry K. Gilbert

Staff Scientist & Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic

Barry Gilbert
Although it may appear that the transistor technology is maturing after a 50-plus-year run, the opportunity for developing advanced electronic systems using these new components can continue for many years. Many of these future system capabilities will far surpass all that we have observed to the present.
 
Barry Gilbert received his BSEE from Purdue in 1965. Today he is a staff scientist and professor in the Department of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He also founded and directs the 60-person Special-Purpose Processor Development Group (SPPDG) at the Mayo Clinic. His major research entails applying engineering, computational, and physical methods to the processing and analysis of signal and imagery data for medical and military applications.

When the SPPDG was founded in 1971, Dr. Gilbert initiated the development of special-purpose, parallel-architecture computers to provide the processing power for translating X-ray projection data into three-dimensional X-ray tomographic imagery. As an additional partial solution to high-throughput medical and military signal-processing problems, his group has worked to further develop the fastest digital integrated circuit technologies.

After graduating from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota in 1972, Dr. Gilbert transitioned through various staff and academic roles prior to assuming his present position in 1978. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

Dr. Gilbert has published more than 250 papers and has twice received the Director’s Award for Sustained Excellence by a Contractor from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has participated in more than 100 advanced technology development projects over the past 30 years, which have included collaborations with many of the most enthusiastic researchers in the electronics and optics fields.
 
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Barry Gilbert received his BSEE from Purdue in 1965. Today he is a staff scientist and professor in the Depart-ment of Physiology and Biomedical Engineering at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. He also founded and directs the 60-person Special-Purpose Processor Development Group (SPPDG) at the Mayo Clinic. His major research entails applying engineering, computational, and physical methods to the processing and analysis of signal and imagery data for medical and military applications.
 
 
 
 

When the SPPDG was founded in 1971, Dr. Gilbert initiated the development of special-purpose, parallel-architecture computers to provide the processing power for translating X-ray projection data into three-dimensional X-ray tomographic imagery. As an additional partial solution to high-throughput medical and military signal-processing problems, his group has worked to further develop the fastest digital integrated circuit technologies.

 
 

After graduating from the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine and the University of Minnesota in 1972, Dr. Gilbert transitioned through various staff and academic roles prior to assuming his present position in 1978. He is a member of the American Physiological Society, a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).

 
 

Dr. Gilbert has published more than 250 papers and has twice received the Director’s Award for Sustained Excellence by a Contractor from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He has participated in more than 100 advanced technology development projects over the past 30 years, which have included collaborations with many of the most enthusiastic researchers in the electronics and optics fields.

Although it may appear that the transistor technology is maturing after a 50-plus-year run, the opportunity for developing advanced electronic systems using these new components can continue for many years. Many of these future system capabilities will far surpass all that we have observed to the present.