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Blindness & New Technology

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Forum discusses recent innovations in assistive technology for the blind.

Guests:

Bill Gerrey, rehabilitation engineer at the Smith Kettlewell Eye Research Foundation

Steve Jacobson, vice president of the Computer Science Division at the National Federation for the Blind

Scott Duncan, associate executive director of Programming and Services at Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired in San Francisco

Jay Stiteley, director of the National Technology Program at the American Foundation for the Blind

Erik Weihenmayer, mountaineer who climbed Mt. Everest in 2001, author of "Touch the Top of the World" and recent recipient of the Helen Keller Achievement Award from the American Foundation for the Blind

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