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Rosalind Wright Picard (born May 17, 1962 in Massachusetts) is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, director and also the founder of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think Consortium,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Media Lab Faculty Biography )〕 and co-founder of startups Affectiva and Empatica. In 2005, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Picard is credited with starting the branch of computer science known as affective computing〔 〕〔 〕 with the publication of ''Affective Computing''. 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.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Publication of ''Affective Computing'' )〕 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. ==Academics== Picard holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with highest honors and a certificate in computer engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (1984), and master's (1986) and doctorate degrees (1991), both in electrical engineering and computer science, from MIT. Her thesis was titled ''Texture Modeling: Temperature Effects on Markov/Gibbs Random Fields''. She has been a member of the faculty at the MIT Media Laboratory since 1991, with tenure since 1998 and a full professorship since 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Affective Computing Group web page )〕 Picard is a researcher in the field of affective computing and the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab. The Affective Computing Research Group develops tools, techniques, and devices for sensing, interpreting, and processing emotion signals that drive state-of-the-art systems that respond intelligently to human emotional states.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Research Projects of the Affective Computing Research Group )〕 Applications of their research include improved tutoring systems and assistive technology for use in addressing the verbal communications difficulties experienced by individuals with autism.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Affective Computing Group - Current and Past Projects )〕 She also works with Sherry Turkle and Cynthia Breazeal in the field of social robots, and has published significant work in the areas of digital image processing, pattern recognition, and wearable computers. Picard's former students include Steve Mann, professor and researcher in wearable computers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rosalind Picard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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