Brown professors fellows at academy of inventors

PROVIDENCE – The National Academy of Inventors has included three Brown University professors in a roster that now totals 414.
In December, the academy named 170 new fellows, including Brown’s John Donoghue, the Henry Merritt Wriston professor of neuroscience and professor of engineering; Maurice Herlihy, who specializes in computer science, and Jeffrey Morgan, professor of medical science and engineering and director of biomedical engineering.
Fellowship in the academy is awarded to inventors who have demonstrated a “prolific spirit of innovation” and an impact on society’s welfare, the academy stated. Fellows will be inducted into the academy in California in March.
Donoghue is a pioneer in the field of brain-computer interfaces.
Herlihy has helped develop transactional memory, a technique that enables computers with multiple processors to coordinate shared data revisions in real time.
Morgan has led the invention of a new method to grow living cells in three dimensions. He co-founded a Providence company, Microtissues Inc. •

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