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magine being able to
drive without having to
frequently glance at your
speedometer or see if you
have enough gas because all
that information would be
projected on your car's
windshield.
Now imagine the same
device being able to help
doctors perform surgery and
assist pilots while they are
flying.
This may sound like a
scene from a science-fiction
novel, but such a device
could soon be possible.
Thanks to a compact holo-
graphic display designed by
a team of Weizmann
Institute scientists, includ-
ing Michigan-educated
Professor Asher Friesem,
such applications are not so
science-fiction.
Born in Israel, Professor
Friesem moved to Detroit
with his parents when he
was in his teens. He attend-
ed Cass Technical High
School, Wayne State
University and the
University of Michigan.
After receiving his Ph.D.
from U-M, Professor
Friesem worked for the
Radiation Co. in Ann Arbor
before returning to Israel in
1973 to work at the
Weizmann Institute.
In 1981, he returned to
Ann Arbor to teach electro-
optics at U-M.
Professor Friesem, who
was visiting family last
week in Ann Arbor, said the
proposed display is unlike
the usual hologram because
it does not require a distant
light source, making it espe-
cially useful because of its
size.

"With this, the light
source can be attached to
the hologram so its reflec-
tion is confined in the glass
and redirected to the view-
er's eye. It makes the whole
system compact," said
Professor Friesem, whose
son is now studying at U-M.
The compactness of the
system could allow doctors
to perform surgery using
instruments which require
only a small incision.
Using the new device,
doctors could wear a device
that projects a small screen
just inches in front of their
eyes, allowing them to see
where they are operating.
Doctors today view internal
organs on a TV monitor and
must constantly look
between the patient and the
screen during an operation.
Pilots also would benefit
from holographic display
almost in the same way as
drivers. Instrument read-
ings would be projected onto
the pilot's "transparent hel-
met visor" and assist pilots
in monitoring instruments.
Scientists have been
working on the compact
holographic display for two
years; Professor Friesem
said it will be several
more years before it is per-
fected.

Agency Rescues
Georgian Jews

Jerusalem (JTA) — Sixty-
five Jews from Abkhazia, a
breakaway region of
Georgia, in the former
Soviet Union, arrived in
Israel this week in a rescue
operation organized by the
Jewish Agency.
The rescue operation
began with the group travel.
ing in buses from Sukhumi,
the capital of Abkhazia, 12
hours through the moun-
tainous area "in which
battles were still raging,"
according to the Jewish
Agency.
It was the first group
taken out of Sukhumi by the
Jewish Agency since Russia
orchestrated a cease-fire last
week between the Abkha-
zian breakaway regime and
the Georgian government.

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