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Pattie Maes
20 minute speaker
Associate Professor in MIT's Program in Media, Arts and Sciences
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Pattie Maes, an associate professor at MIT and internationally honored with several awards, is a Belgian at the top of the technological evolution. She will show, live on stage, where her technology - labeled by TED as 'the sixth sense' - will bring us in the next few years. Think Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Only this session takes place in the real world.
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Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT's Program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directs the Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces group which focuses on designing novel interfaces for making digital information more seamlessly accessible and more integrated in our physical surroundings.
Since 2008, Professor Maes has also acted as the associate department head for the Media, Arts and Sciences Department. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium. Her areas of expertise include human-computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing.
She has received several awards: Newsweek magazine named her one of the "100 Americans to watch for" in the year 2000; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite, the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title "Global Leader for Tomorrow"; and in 2000 she was recognized with the "Lifetime Achievement Award" by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council.
Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She is the author of more than 100 articles and is a regular keynote speaker at conferences such as TED.
http://www.media.mit.edu/~pattie
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