Uploaded on Jun 10, 2011
Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the
Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-
director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the
new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at
MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves
as chairman and chief scientist.
Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with
highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and
master's and doctoral degrees, both in electrical engineering and
computer science, from MIT. Prior to completing her doctorate at
MIT, she was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories. In 1991 she joined the MIT Media Lab faculty, where
she became internationally known for content-based retrieval
research, for creating new tools such as the Photobook system, and
for pioneering methods of automated search and annotation in
digital video.
She is the author of the award-winning book Affective Computing,
which was instrumental in starting a new field by that name. She
has authored 200 scientific articles and chapters and also holds
multiple patents. In 2005, she was honored as a Fellow of the IEEE.
