Biographical sketches of authors
Flavia Sparacino
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: flavia@media.mit.edu).
Ms. Sparacino is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Laboratory. She is designing perceptual intelligence for interactive media, with applications to augmented performance, information architecture, and museum displays. Perceptual intelligence emerges from the integration of multiple sensor modalities and determines the expressive abilities of digital text, photographs, movie clips, music, and audio. Her work was featured at Ars Electronica 97 and 98, ISEA 97, SIGGRAPH 96 and 99, ICMCS 99, and ICHIM99, as well as many other international venues. She holds undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and robotics, and master's degrees in cognitive sciences and media arts and sciences. Ms. Sparacino received a number of scholarships and awards for her academic work and career, including those from the European Community, the Italian Center for National Research, the French Center for National Research, and Fulbright, among others. She spent some time in film school, theater school, and a small-town circus and has done travel photography in many countries around the world.
Glorianna Davenport
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: gid@media.mit.edu).
Ms. Davenport is the director of the Interactive Cinema Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. Trained as a documentary filmmaker, she has achieved international recognition for her work in the new media forms. Her research explores fundamental issues related to the collaborative co-construction of digital media experiences, where the task of narration is split among authors, consumers, and computer mediators. Ms. Davenport's recent work focuses on the creation of customizable, personalizable storyteller systems that dynamically serve and adapt to a widely dispersed society of audience. She has taught, lectured, and published internationally on the subjects of interactive multimedia and story construction. More information can be found at http://www.media.mit.edu/~gid.
Alex (Sandy) Pentland
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: sandy@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Pentland is the academic head of the MIT Media Laboratory and cofounder and director of the Center for Future Health and the LINCOS Foundation. His research focus includes both smart rooms (e.g., face, expression, and intention recognition; word learning and acoustic scene analysis) and smart clothes (e.g., augmenting human intelligence and perception by building sensors, displays, and computers into glasses, belts, shoes, etc.). These research areas are described in the April 1996 and November 1998 issues of Scientific American. He is one of the 50 most-cited researchers in the field of computer science, and Newsweek has recently named him one of the 100 Americans most likely to shape the 21st century. Dr. Pentland has won awards from several academic societies, including the AAAI, IEEE, and Ars Electronica. See http://www.media.mit.edu/~pentland for additional details.
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