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Rosalind Picard Rosalind Picard at the Veritas Forum Science, Faith, and Technology session on "Living Machines: Can Robots Become Human?" Rosalind W. Picard (born May 17, 1962 in Massachusetts) is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director and also the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think Consortium,[1] and chief scientist and co-founder of Affectiva.[2][3] In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.[4] Picard is credited with starting the branch of computer science known as affective computing[5][6] with the publication of Affective Computing. Academics[edit] Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and a certificate in computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1984), and master's (1986) and doctorate degrees (1991), both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. Affective Computing[edit] Autism research[edit] Awards[edit]
Swagapalooza - A product launch event for influential bloggers & twitter users Irfan Essa Irfan Aziz Essa is a professor and the Director of Off-Campus Initiatives in the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).[1] Education[edit] Essa obtained his undergraduate degree in Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1988.[2] Following this, Essa attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received his magister scientiae (Master of Science) in 1990 and his Ph.D. in 1995 at the MIT Media Lab. His doctoral research focused on the implementation of a system to detect emotions from changes in your facial expression, which was later featured in the New York Times.[3] He proceeded to hold a position as a Research Scientist at MIT from 1994 to 1996 before accepting a position at Georgia Tech. Professional career[edit] After departing MIT, Essa accepted a position as an Assistant Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Selected Bibliography[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
prof.irfanessa.com Bradley Horowitz Bradley Joseph Horowitz is an American entrepreneur and internet executive. He is currently the Vice President of Product management for Google+. Early life and education[edit] Horowitz received a Bachelors in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in 1989. He pursued his graduate studies at the MIT Media Lab, in the Vision and Modeling Group, under Professor Sandy Pentland. Entrepreneurship[edit] Horowitz was CTO and a co-founder (with Jeff Bach, Chiao-fe Shu and Ramesh Jain) of Virage, Inc.[3][4] Virage technology “watched, read and listened to raw video”, extracting metadata that allowed for detailed semantic-based indexing of the video content. Career[edit] Horowitz joined Yahoo in 2004 as Director of Media Search.[7][8] Eventually he began the internal Hack Yahoo program, most notable for “Hack Days.” Personal life[edit] Horowitz is married to designer Irene Au, who has held executive roles with Netscape, Yahoo, Google and Udacity. References[edit] External links[edit]