TESTIMONIES: From Atheist MIT Scientist to Follower of Jesus Christ
(9:45 VIEWING) — This will come as a shock to some congressional aides, including perhaps even a few of those who are MIT graduates, but there are followers of Jesus Christ among that highly esteemed university’s most successful and widely respected professors.
One of them is Dr. Rosalind Picard. Just consider this from her official biography:
Dr. Rosalind Picard, MIT
“Rosalind Picard, Sc.D., is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, author, professor and engineer. She is best-known for her book, Affective Computing, which proposed and described how to give skills of emotional intelligence to computers — including voice assistants, robots, agents, and many kinds of interactive technologies.
“While trying to create ways to objectively measure data related to emotion, she pioneered wearable technologies to monitor and analyze physiological data in daily life, giving rise to new research and inventions at the intersection of wearables, physiology, and physical and mental health.
“Picard is a named inventor on over 100 patents, with impact that earned her recognition as both a member of the National Academy of Engineering and as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Her contributions include wearable and non-contact sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding respectfully to human affective information.
“Her inventions have applications in autism, epilepsy, depression, PTSD, sleep, stress, dementia, autonomic nervous system disorders, human and machine learning, health behavior change, market research, customer service, and human-computer interaction, and are in use by thousands of research teams worldwide as well as in many products and services.
“Picard is the recipient of the 2022 International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science Research, which is described by many as the “Nobel prize in computer science”. (There is no Nobel prize in computer science, a category that did not exist when Alfred Nobel established the original prizes). The Lombardy prize includes an award of a million euros, which Picard donated to research.
“She is founder and director of the MIT Media Lab’s Affective Computing Reseach Group, where she teaches and mentors students in research. Her research and engineering contributions have been recognized internationally, also with election as a fellow to the IEEE, the ACM, the AAAC and the APA.”
In the following 3:23 video from the Veritas Forum, Dr. Picard describes her journey from atheist scientist to accepting the gracious gift of salvation offered only by Jesus Christ to become one of His followers:
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I do not doubt her sincerity concerning her faith. I doubt the MIT write up on her. I looked on the web via Duck Duck Go for “International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science ” and it generally went back to her bio from MIT. At best it is an obscure prize. The prize to me that carries the most significance in computing is the ACM Turing Award. It seems in the scientific endeavor these days there are a multiplicity of prizes.
On searching for “International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science”, DuckDuckGo is a good tool that I use by default for privacy, but DuckDuckGo does not enforce “double quotes” to group consecutive words together. Google does this well and does a better job at advanced search options.
Since this is an Italian award, search using its formal name: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22lombardia+%C3%A8+ricerca+award%22
This search will yield far better results than those provided by the competing search tool.
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