the thesis in the book is that computers need to understand human emotions just the way people do. I read the book and I was just fascinated by this idea. I made that my research topic and it became my obsession and it just really changed the trajectory of my life.
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Rana el Kaliouby
Computer scientist; co-founder of Affectiva
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Egyptian-American computer scientist working on emotion recognition. She did her doctorate at Cambridge, researched at the MIT Media Lab, and co-founded Affectiva to build software that reads facial expression and vocal affect.
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