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GIRL DECODED
A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Our Technology
In the bestselling tradition of Lab Girl, the unforgettable narrative of an Egyptian-American technology pioneer who, after getting her Ph.D. in computer science from Cambridge University, founded Affectiva, a leader in the new field of Emotion AI, to build emotional intelligence into our computers and transform how we communicate.
Ninety-three percent of meaningful communication between people is nonverbal. We glean more information from facial expressions, tone of voice, and body language than we do with language alone.
Yet the computers we use every day to share our thoughts and reach out to colleagues, clients and friends are emotionally blind when it comes to conveying our feelings and emotions. At the same time, since 2000, the time we spend on the internet each week has risen from 9.4 hours to 23.6. With so much of our lives spent online, the emotion and context behind our words is lost. Our computers and gadgets - smart as they may be - are functionally autistic when it comes to reading and rendering emotions. And as a result our society, Rana el- Kaliouby claims, has become less empathetic.
In a rich narrative into the research and developments in emotion AI, Rana el-Kaliouby shows that we are only scratching the surface of our computers' full potential. She experienced the difficulty of conveying emotions online firsthand when she moved to Cambridge from Cairo to pursue her Ph.D., and found how frustrating and lonely she was trying to maintain her marriage via email and messaging. It was that experience that steered her into her dissertation on bringing emotional intelligence to our machines.
GIRL DECODED brings together el-Kaliouby's personal story of perseverance, ingenuity and heart as a Muslim woman in a coding universe dominated by men, with her pioneering efforts to create the digital technology to read and convey our emotions and transform how we communicate.
Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., is a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), as well as the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab. She grew up in Cairo, Egypt, among a family of educators. After earning an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science at the American University in Cairo, she attended Cambridge University, where she earned her Ph.D. Afterwards, she joined the MIT Media Lab as a research scientist, where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism. She left MIT to co-found Affectiva, the company credited with defining the field of Emotion AI. Her company now works with more than a quarter of the companies in the Fortune Global 500. An acclaimed TED speaker, Rana was named by Forbes to their list of America's Top 50 Women in Tech, and Fortune included her in their list of 40 Under 40. In 2018 she was the cohost of a PBS Nova series on AI.
Yet the computers we use every day to share our thoughts and reach out to colleagues, clients and friends are emotionally blind when it comes to conveying our feelings and emotions. At the same time, since 2000, the time we spend on the internet each week has risen from 9.4 hours to 23.6. With so much of our lives spent online, the emotion and context behind our words is lost. Our computers and gadgets - smart as they may be - are functionally autistic when it comes to reading and rendering emotions. And as a result our society, Rana el- Kaliouby claims, has become less empathetic.
In a rich narrative into the research and developments in emotion AI, Rana el-Kaliouby shows that we are only scratching the surface of our computers' full potential. She experienced the difficulty of conveying emotions online firsthand when she moved to Cambridge from Cairo to pursue her Ph.D., and found how frustrating and lonely she was trying to maintain her marriage via email and messaging. It was that experience that steered her into her dissertation on bringing emotional intelligence to our machines.
GIRL DECODED brings together el-Kaliouby's personal story of perseverance, ingenuity and heart as a Muslim woman in a coding universe dominated by men, with her pioneering efforts to create the digital technology to read and convey our emotions and transform how we communicate.
Rana el Kaliouby, Ph.D., is a pioneer in artificial emotional intelligence (Emotion AI), as well as the co-founder and CEO of Affectiva, the acclaimed AI startup spun off from the MIT Media Lab. She grew up in Cairo, Egypt, among a family of educators. After earning an undergraduate and master's degree in computer science at the American University in Cairo, she attended Cambridge University, where she earned her Ph.D. Afterwards, she joined the MIT Media Lab as a research scientist, where she spearheaded the applications of emotion recognition technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism. She left MIT to co-found Affectiva, the company credited with defining the field of Emotion AI. Her company now works with more than a quarter of the companies in the Fortune Global 500. An acclaimed TED speaker, Rana was named by Forbes to their list of America's Top 50 Women in Tech, and Fortune included her in their list of 40 Under 40. In 2018 she was the cohost of a PBS Nova series on AI.
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