Marty's had a 30 year partnership in Research & Development with Richard Koplin, MD. You can read more about his career, patent's and research interests at:
Marty's early years in New York were spent in radio.
One show that made a lasting impression on him was called The Mystic Barber. It was about faith healers and Mystic types.
He started a recording studio in Greenwich Village where he recorded many of the folk musicians of the 1960's. He had a huge (lifelong!) crush on Joan Baez.
He loved the Clancy Brothers.
Shortly before he died, he found a tape of a recording that Lucy and Carly Simon had made for him on his 21st birthday.
We all sat on the couch and listened to their sweet voices, singing for Marty.
Marty loved music.
He had perfect pitch and incredible rhythm.
When describing his work in computer programming he said that he wrote his programs like musical compositions and that he could read over them, like musical scores. He could tell if the code was good by the way it "sounded."
He got his first job as a radio engineer at 19 when a friend called him in to fix the ancient vacuum tubes for WNCN. The equipment was all housed on the rooftop of the Hotel Pierre. He said he rode up in the elevator to the penthouse next to Diana Ross and the Supremes.
Marty & Ohm Acoustics
Marty worked with Lincoln Walsh to develop the technology behind the coherent loudspeakers that he would develop and manufacture at his company, Ohm Acoustics.
The loudspeakers are still being made and up until the end Marty would get random emails from fans and people asking him to fix their old speakers.
Part of the story that I always loved was that the key to producing a great sound was in making the cone "imperfect."
Marty left the Hi-Fi business to pursue work in Medical Research with Ophthalmologist, Richard Koplin.
Marty, and his brother Herman, both suffered from congenital vision problems.
This eventually led Marty to work in Ophthalmology.
His engineering genius, and his depth understanding of amplification and vibration made it possible for him to make major contributions in the field of medical imaging.
Launching the First "Machine" at
the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
What did Marty do exactly?
The boundaries of his work were so amorphous that it's challenging to put it into neat categories.
But I will make an attempt to give a simple explanations of his "major contributions" to
medical imaging:
Marty figured out how to gather measurements, from an actual eyeball and translate this data into a useful computer image.
Marty and his team created the hardware & software - the total machine if you will, that is still used worldwide to evaluate patients for
Lasik surgery.
Before this machine doctors had no way of evaluating who was a good candidate for the surgery.
