In Honour of David A. Winter, PhD, PEng

Scientist, colleague, teacher, mentor and friend

The biomechanics community is mourning the loss of David A. Winter, PhD, PEng, who died on February 7, 2012 at 81 years of age following several months’ battle with cancer. He was Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, where he made extensive contributions to biomechanics, electromyography and motor control in the kinesiology of human posture and movement and has been referred to as “the Muybridge of the 20^th century.”¹ Predeceased by his wife, Judy, he leaves a daughter, two sons and five grandchildren.

Thank You Motion Analysis

Both the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) and the Simon Bolivar University (USB) would like to officially thank Tom Whitaker, CEO, and his team at Motion Analysis Corporation for their continued generosity and commitment to support biomechanics in Economically Developing Countries (EDC). Motion Analysis donated a full camera system for the ISB sponsored biomechanics laboratory at USB, Caracas-Venezuela, in 2007. The company has recently agreed to repair one of the Hawk cameras, previously donated, at no cost to the team in Venezuela. This action has removed what could have been a tremendous financial burden and functional setback for the biomechanics group. Hence, Motion Analysis has, once again, demonstrated outstanding charity and dedication to encourage the development of Biomechanics in Venezuela and around the world.

ISB Award at the Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics Meeting

The 2011 annual meeting of Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics was hosted at National Chiao Tung University from Oct 20th to 21st. This year a record high of 120 papers presented in nine sections and attracted over 200 participants; in addition to regular paper presentations, there was a Biomechanics Innovation Contest with over 15 student innovations in Medicare, Rehabilitation, Sports as well as dentistry. Five world renowned scholars were the keynote speakers:  Prof. James Ashton-Miller, University of Michigan, USA; Prof. Li-Shan Chou, University of Oregon, USA; Prof. Hiroshi Mizoguchi, Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Prof. Hiroshi Takemura, Tokyo University of Science, Japan; Prof. Aurelio Cappozzo, University of Rome, Italy.

Camcorder Request

Did you just get a fabulous new camcorder and do not know what to do with your old one?
Well, you can donate it to a biomechanics lab in need!

The ISB-sponsored Biomechanics Laboratory at the Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas-Venezuela, is in great need of two digital video (DV) camcorders to achieve optimal performance of the Motion Analysis Cortex System that is used for gait analysis. The lab has been performing gait analysis with no DV camcorders until now; however, it has become really challenging to perform capture imaging accurately.