Dr. Bergeron is a recognized authority on the practical
application of new technologies, and has been deeply involved in designing,
developing, teaching, and writing about technology for over 30 years.
He founded his first software
company in 1984, with three commercially successful software titles. He founded Archetype Technologies, Inc. in 1996
for the express purpose of accelerating the development of new technologies for
high-tech startups. In his role as
acting chief scientist, he has worked with startups in areas ranging from surgical
robotics, voice recognition, haptics, and 3D modeling and simulation, to user
interface design, and has designed nanobots, knowledge bases, computer
hardware, military serious games, software agents, data warehouses, and intelligent
tutoring systems, surgical instrument sensors, among others. His work has been featured
in Apple TV commercials, the National Library of Medicines resource center,
and the INNOVA museum. He is the recipient of a Fulbright, a Fellow of the American
College of Medical Informatics, is on
the advisory boards of several prominent technology companies, and works
extensively with several companies and governments in the Middle East and Asia. He is
working with the DOD in the areas of military applications of AI, robotics, and machine
learning. He is the author of six commercial software packages, including the first
commercial multimedia clinical simulator on a microcomputer, author/coauthor of
more than two dozen software packages used in academia and/or industry, several hundred articles, a dozen chapters and monographs, two dozen books, over a thousand published illustrations, including several dozen magazine covers. He is author
of the first eBook accepted for copyright in digital form by the National
Library of Congress and co-author of four patents in the area of computer
simulation. He is founding editor-in-chief and
current/former contributing/technical editor of seven technology journals, including Postgraduate Medicine, Healthcare Informatics, and
several online journals, and is managing editor of two technology
magazines, Servo and Nuts & Volts. |
