Rosalind Picard
Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., is professor at the MIT Media Laboratory,
founder and director of the Affective Computing research group, director
of the new and growing Autism Communication Technology Initiative at
MIT, and co-founder and chief scientist of Affectiva, Inc. She is known
internationally for her book Affective Computing, for giving technology
(and robots) emotional abilities, and for inventing technologies that
help people better communicate emotion. She describes her favorite
challenge as raising three sons.
