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Affectiva Launched
Picard and Kaliouby launched their company Affectiva, which was one of the first affective computing firms. The company first worked to help people with recognition problems, such as people on the Autism spectrum. Eventually, they developed emotion-sensing analytics. Today, the company was resold here: https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2021/06/23/affectiva-acquired-ceo-rana-el-kaliouby.html -
Deep Learning Neural Network From University of Toronto
A college-level team made huge strides in the development of a neural network. This helped technology to adapt and understand complex neural patterns. -
Thesis Reveals Anthropomorphized Perception Of Thechnology
Doctoral candidate Julie Carpenter interviewed EOD personnel in order to gauge their perceptions of robots based on interactions. During her study, she found that people became sympathetic over time. When robots were damaged, people were often sad or angry at the 'loss' of the robot. Some even held funerals. This showed just how attached people were becoming to technology. -
Cynthia Breazeal Launches 'Home Robot' Initiative
Breazeal launched a crowdfunding initiative through the website 'Indigo'. She focused the initiative around the creation of a 'Social Robot' for around the home. The Robot, known as Jibo, eventually raised 3.7 million, with 2.3 million in sales for robot preorders. A year later, she had raised 35 million. In 2016, the robots started being shipped. -
Apple Buys Emotient
When Apple purchased this mind-orientated company, they bought it for an undisclosed sum. Many speculate that this was done in order to make Siri more competitive Apple has increasingly purchased these firms over time.
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Prediction: Phones Will Unlock Everything
I predict that in the future, phones will be able to unlock almost everything and everything, from your home front door to your car. I also think there will eventually be a 'child safety' feature where you can lock your child's door. Or, you can monitor your baby's sleep via sensors in the matress.