Biographical sketch of author
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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