Steven Schwaitzberg, Chief of Surgery at the Cambridge Health Alliance at the Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital, has been preparing surgeons for the real world for years. Recently he’s developed interest in teaching laparoscopic surgery to distant students using video teleconferencing, but in that process the language gap has turned out to be rather wide. To overcome, a team came together to develop a real-time universal translator which Dr Schwaitzberg presented at TEDxBeaconStreet:
Link @ TED: A universal translator for surgeons