Biographical sketch of author
Rosalind W. Picard
MIT Media Laboratory, 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139-4307 (electronic mail: picard@media.mit.edu).
Dr. Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory. She holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a master's degree and doctorate, both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. She was named a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in 1984 and worked as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 19841987, designing very large scale integration (VLSI) chips for digital signal processing and developing new methods of image compression and analysis. In 1991 she joined the MIT faculty, in 1992 was appointed to the NEC Development Chair in Computers and Communications, and in 1995 was promoted to associate professor. The author of over 70 peer-reviewed scientific articles in pattern recognition, multidimensional signal modeling, and computer vision, Dr. Picard is known internationally for pioneering research into digital libraries and content-based video retrieval. She is corecipient with Tom Minka of a best paper prize (1998) from the Pattern Recognition Society for their work on interactive machine learning with multiple models. Dr. Picard was guest editor for the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence on “Digital Libraries: Representation and Retrieval,” and edited the proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Content-Based Access of Image and Video Libraries, for which she served as chair. She presently serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, as well as on several scientific program committees and review boards. Her recent award-winning book, Affective Computing (MIT Press, 1997), lays the groundwork for giving machines the skills of emotional intelligence.
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