Ian Halpern writes books about the integration of science, engineering, and design including Machines in Our Minds (MIT Press), and Iteration (IF 02). He has served as a principal investigator for neural implant technology funded by DARPA and NIH and then led its successful commercialization including use in-human. He served on the inaugural US presidential BRAIN Initiative review panel, as a lecturer at the Stanford School of Engineering, and is an adjunct faculty member in the school of engineering at Brown University. A recipient of individual and team international GOOD Design awards, he has cofounded and served as CEO of two biomedical device companies and is the lead or sole inventor of over twelve US patents and numerous foreign patents. He has also served as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies and invented, designed, and engineered many devices including the first FDA cleared life-supporting manual ventilator to satisfy the 2010 AHA guidelines. He lives near trails in Northern California.