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Best Regards, Ishtiaque
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---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ashton Anderson ashton@cs.toronto.edu Date: Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:26 AM Subject: Re: Distinguished Lecture Series 2019-20: Dr. Rosalind Picard this Thursday at 11am in BA1210 To: dcsall@cs.toronto.edu
Hi everyone,
Reminder that Rosalind Picard (MIT) is giving a *Distinguished Lecture Series talk *in* Bahen 1210 *at* 11am*, in about 40 minutes. Be there!
Ashton
On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 4:19 PM Ashton Anderson ashton@cs.toronto.edu wrote:
Hi everyone,
This year we have another inspiring lineup of speakers for the C.C. "Kelly" Gotlieb Distinguished Lecture Series. We're kicking things off *this Thursday at 11am in BA1210 *with* Rosalind Picard*, who is a Professor of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, and is the founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group there. She is one of the world's most prominent researchers in affective computing and wearable computing. Please come join us this Thursday, October 31 at 11am in BA1210 to hear her talk about AI and emotional intelligence! There will be a student roundtable at 5:15–6pm in BA 5256, you are all invited to join that to meet with her.
Save the 2019-20 DLS dates: Rosalind Picard — Thu Oct 31 Allan Borodin — Tues Nov 5 Barbara Grosz — Thu Dec 5
*How Affective Computing can Change our Future Health* *Prof. **Rosalind Picard, MIT* AI – including machine learning providing emotional intelligence - is becoming embedded in our wearables and smartphones, enabling new insights and interventions for improving lives for many people, including those with Autism, Epilepsy, and Depression. The latter condition, depression, is growing and forecast to become the #1 disease burden by 2030. How close are we to forecasting changes in mood, stress, and physical health before they happen? Could AI help us prevent tomorrow’s worsening mood or ill health, and reduce the likelihood of diseases such as depression, helping people stay healthy instead of becoming sick? This talk will show the latest findings using machine learning and wearable + smartphone sensing, also highlighting ethical and privacy concerns. *Bio*: Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, co-founder of Affectiva, Inc., delivering Emotion AI technology, and co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica, Inc., creators of the first FDA-cleared smart watch used in neurology for detecting seizures. Picard is author of over three hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles in signal processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, human-computer interaction, affective computing, and neurology. She is known internationally for her book, Affective Computing, which helped launch the research area by that name. She was a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wearable Information Systems, helping boot up the field of wearable computing. Picard is a fellow of the IEEE and an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering. She holds a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and Masters and Doctorate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Picard leads research developing AI/machine learning algorithms, analytics, and sensors for advancing the basic scientific understanding of emotion, stress, and arousal, advancing both basic research and development to improve human health and wellbeing.