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profoundly deaf people.
The apparatus has,
for the first time,
substantially
restored a human sense
with a medical intervention.
Blah, blah, blah.
Throughout the world today,
there are about 320,000 people
outfitted with
cochlear implants.
Most recipients can
talk on their cellphones
and follow conversations in
relatively quiet environments,
and an increasing
number of patients
with severe age-related
hearing loss
are taking advantage of
this marvelous invention.
So the three people
here, two of them
are actually founders of
cochlear implant companies.
So you can think of Nobel Prizes
and these prize being awarded
to people who made
big discoveries.
And certainly, in the third
case, Blake Wilson did.
But in the first two, it's
really conveying a technology
to the masses that was
recognized by this award.
So that's the 2013 Lasker Award.
So let's look a little bit about
what a cochlear implant is,
and that's shown in the
next couple of slides.
So the cochlear implant
has an internal part, which
is a series of electrodes
that go into the cochlea,
and the electrode
comes out from here
and goes into a
so-called internal coil--
sorry about that-- and this is
sometimes called the receiver
because it gets messages
from the external coil,
or sometimes called the
transmitter, across the skin
here.
So there's skin between the
external and internal coils.
On the outside, you
have a microphone
which picks up the sound and
sends the microphone messages
to a so-called speech processor.
The speech processor
sends transforms
that sound wave form into a