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Rosalind Picard

1962 - Today

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Rosalind Wright Picard (born 1962) is an American scholar and inventor who is Grover M. Hermann Professor of Health Sciences and Technology 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. Prior to joining the MIT faculty, Picard worked from 1984-1987 as a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, first developing new VLSI-scale computer architectures for future high-speed signal processing chips and later researching new kinds of algorithms for image compression. She has received many recognitions for her research and inventions. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Rosalind Picard is the 240th most popular computer scientist, the 17,899th most popular biography from United States (up from 18,117th in 2019) and the 124th most popular American Computer Scientist.

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS

Among computer scientists, Rosalind Picard ranks 240 out of 245. Before her are Jenova Chen, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Larry Ewing, Theodore Ts'o, Jeff Dean, and Jon Lech Johansen. After her are Andrej Karpathy, David Braben, Denny Vrandečić, Fabrice Bellard, David Heinemeier Hansson, and Andrew Tridgell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1962, Rosalind Picard ranks 1,057. Before her are Mike Kehoe, Mariya Ahmed Didi, Marley Marl, Hallie Todd, Brian Azzarello, and Asha Haji Elmi. After her are Mary Kay Adams, Michael McCaul, Kool Moe Dee, Lisa P. Jackson, Ashish Vidyarthi, and Todd Bennett.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rosalind Picard ranks 17,906 out of 20,380. Before her are Booboo Stewart (1994), Darrell Armstrong (1968), Keith Langford (1983), Muhammed Lawal (1981), Kyrsten Sinema (1976), and Edward Kitsis (1971). After her are Mackenzie Ziegler (2004), Norbert Leo Butz (1967), Jeff Fowler (1978), Davey Havok (1975), Michelle Finn-Burrell (1965), and Victoria Jackson (1959).

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Among COMPUTER SCIENTISTS In United States

Among computer scientists born in United States, Rosalind Picard ranks 124. Before her are Steve Wilhite (1948), John Ousterhout (1954), Shawn Fanning (1980), Greg Kroah-Hartman (null), Theodore Ts'o (1968), and Jeff Dean (1968). After her are Rich Skrenta (1967), Eric Bina (1964), Jordan Hubbard (1963), Dave Hyatt (1972), Valerie Aurora (null), and John Resig (1984).

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