Rosalind Picard, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rosalind Picard

American computer scientist

Date of Birth: 17-May-1962

Place of Birth: Massachusetts, United States

Profession: engineer, computer scientist, university teacher, artificial intelligence researcher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962) is an American scholar who is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founder of the startups Affectiva and Empatica.
In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for contributions to image and video analysis and affective computing.
In 2019 she received one of the highest professional honors accorded an engineer, election to the National Academy of Engineering for her contributions on affective computing and wearable computing.Picard is credited with starting the branch of computer science known as affective computing with her 1997 book of the same name.
This book described the importance of emotion in intelligence, the vital role human emotion communication has to relationships between people, and the possible effects of emotion recognition by robots and wearable computers.
Her work in this field has led to an expansion into autism research and developing devices that could help humans recognize nuances in human emotions.