Rosalind W. Picard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Media Arts and Sciences Professor Cambridge, Massachusetts picard@media.mit.edu
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Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to completing her doctorate...
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Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and master's and doctorate degrees, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prior to completing her doctorate at MIT, she was a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories where she designed VLSI chips for digital signal processing and developed new methods of image compression and analysis. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty. She became internationally known for constructing mathematical texture models for content-based retrieval of images, for creating new tools such as the Photobook system, and for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in digital video.
The author of over two hundred scientific articles and she holds multiple patents, having designed and developed a variety of new sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing.
Professor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab. She is also co-founder and director of Affectiva, Inc., delivering technology to help measure and communicate emotion.
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The author of over two hundred scientific articles and she holds multiple patents, having designed and developed a variety of new sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing.
Professor Rosalind W. Picard, Sc.D. is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Laboratory and co-director of the Things That Think Consortium, the largest industrial sponsorship organization at the lab. She is also co-founder and director of Affectiva, Inc., delivering technology to help measure and communicate emotion.
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