educated_at alan gelperin
Dr . Alan Gelperin is a scientist and biologist currently at ___MASK69___ University . He is an emeritus faculty member at Monell Chemical Senses Center . He specializes in electronic olfaction and computational neuroscience . He is most notable for his efforts in creating robots with electronic noses which can localize odors , and for the invention of a supermarket fruit and vegetable scanner that does not use barcodes but instead scans by scent . ___MASK64___ ( British English ; American English ) is the science and practice of the diagnosis , treatment , and prevention of disease . The word " ___MASK64___ " is derived from Latin " medicus ", meaning " a physician ". ___MASK64___ encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness . Contemporary ___MASK64___ applies biomedical sciences , biomedical research , genetics , and medical technology to diagnose , treat , and prevent injury and disease , typically through pharmaceuticals or surgery , but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy , external splints and traction , medical devices , biologics , and ionizing radiation , amongst others . Biology is a natural science concerned with the study of life and living organisms , including their structure , function , growth , evolution , distribution , identification and taxonomy . Modern biology is a vast and eclectic field , composed of many branches and subdisciplines . However , despite the broad scope of biology , there are certain general and unifying concepts within it that govern all study and research , consolidating it into single , coherent field . In general , biology recognizes the cell as the basic unit of life , genes as the basic unit of heredity , and evolution as the engine that propels the synthesis and creation of new species . It is also understood ___MASK61___ that all the organisms survive by consuming and transforming energy and by regulating their internal environment to maintain a stable and vital condition known as homeostasis . Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary , scientific study of the mind and its processes . It examines the nature , the tasks , and the functions of cognition . Cognitive scientists study intelligence and behavior , with a focus on how nervous systems represent , process , and transform information . Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists include language , perception , memory , attention , reasoning , and emotion ; to understand these faculties , cognitive scientists borrow from fields such as linguistics , psychology , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience , and anthropology . The typical analysis of cognitive science spans many levels of organization , from ___MASK99___ and decision to logic and planning ; from neural circuitry to modular brain organization . The fundamental concept of cognitive science is that " thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures ." ___MASK69___ University is a private Ivy League research university in ___MASK69___ , New Jersey , United States . Pennsylvania ( Pennsylvania German : " Pennsylvaani "), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , is a state located in the northeastern and Mid - Atlantic regions of the United States . The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle . The commonwealth borders Delaware to the southeast , Maryland to the south , West Virginia to the southwest , Ohio to the west , Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to the northwest , ___MASK13___ to the north , and New Jersey to the east . The Monell Chemical Senses Center is a non - profit independent scientific institute located at the University City Science Center research campus in Philadelphia , in the U . S . state of Pennsylvania . Monell conducts and publishes interdisciplinary basic research on taste , smell , and chemesthesis ( chemically mediated skin senses , such as the burn of capsaicin or the tingle of carbonation ). The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are ___MASK88___ , ___MASK94___ , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , ___MASK98___ , the ___MASK6___ , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . A biologist , is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of biology , the scientific study of life . Biologists involved in fundamental research attempt to explore and further explain the underlying mechanisms that govern the functioning of living matter . Biologists involved in applied research attempt to develop or improve more specific processes and understanding , in fields such as ___MASK64___ , industry and agriculture . Mathematics ( from Greek  " máthma ",  knowledge , study , ___MASK99___ ) is the study of topics such as quantity ( numbers ), structure , space , and change . There is a range of views among mathematicians and philosophers as to the exact scope and definition of mathematics . Computational neuroscience ( also theoretical neuroscience ) studies brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures that make up the nervous system . It is an interdisciplinary computational science that links the diverse fields of neuroscience , cognitive science , and psychology with electrical engineering , computer science , mathematics , and physics . ___MASK69___ is a municipality with a borough form of government in Mercer County , New Jersey , United States , that was established in its current form on January 1 , 2013 , through the consolidation of the Borough of ___MASK69___ and ___MASK69___ Township . As of the 2010 United States Census , the municipality ' s population was 28 , 572 , reflecting the former township ' s population of 16 , 265 , along with the 12 , 307 in the former borough .