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	Cynthia Breazeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cynthia Breazeal is an Associate Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
		She is currently (2004) the lead researcher on the Sociable Machines project focusing on social interaction and socially situated learning between people and humanoid robots.
		Breazeal also had a prominent role as a virtual participant in a popular exhibit on robots at the Boston Museum of Science, interacting with a real C-3PO and R2-D2 as she spoke to the audience through a pre-recorded message displayed on a large plasma flat-screen display.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cynthia_Breazeal (159 words)

	Weather is awesome: Nature Books: Robo World: The Story Of Robot Designer Cynthia Breazeal (Women's Adventures in ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Breazeal was an excellent programmer and she wrote software to help six legged robots Attila and Hannibal stay functional and work around failures in among 60 sensors and 19 degrees of free range of mechanical parts.
		Breazeal was fascinated by a "take turn" game Cog played with her and thought about how babies learn about the world through their parents.
		Breazeal for the robotic life group with the goal to move robots beyond being view as only high-tech tools and become apart of daily life for millions of people.
	weatherisawesome.com /3-3508-0531167828-Robo_World_The_Story_Of_Robot_Designer_Cynthia... (954 words)

	Cyberpunks.Org - Technology, Privacy, Security, and the Future
		When Cynthia Breazeal arrived at MIT in 1990 to begin working on her master`s degree in electrical engineering and computer science, she didn`t have a specific project in mind, only a general vision.
		Breazeal says happiness, for example, is a "positive state with a neutral value and an open position." In human terms, free and easy with no worries; life is good.
		Breazeal says her work is still research, "so much at the beginning that we haven`t even begun yet." But before long a more advanced, adapted version of Kismet will be sitting on Cog`s shoulders.
	www.cyberpunks.org /display/474/article (2462 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Breazeal hopes that eventually Kismet will be able to develop competencies such as social and communication skills based on what it “learns” from its interactions with people much like an infant learns skills and behaviors during its first months or years of life.
		Applying what she learned through her work with Kismet, Breazeal embarked on a new project recently, a lifelike robot called “Leonardo.” Named for Leonardo Da Vinci, this robot is a collaboration with the Stan Winston Studio, which provides its creative artistry in animatronic characters to combine with Breazeal’s expertise in building socially intelligent robots.
		Breazeal is working on giving Leonardo a computational brain that is “worthy of its body,” with visual feature detectors for objects as well as for people, ability to maintain eye contact, to track objects and to estimate depth.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/breazeal.html (587 words)

	2001: HAL's Legacy
		Breazeal: When I first arrived at MIT for Professor Brooks' group we were still in the middle stages of building insect-like robots.
		Breazeal: In the theory of basic emotions there's a bit of controversy as to which ones constitute this initial repertoire.
		Breazeal: There are a lot of schools of thought as for what intelligent behavior is. The one that has dominated AI has focused on analytical processing of intelligence.
	www.2001halslegacy.com /interviews/braezeal.html (3523 words)

	Cynthia Breazeal – Childhood
		By the time she was in middle school Cynthia had turned into an enthusiastic jock.
		Cynthia's natural talent and hard work helped her rise to the top of her game in track, swimming, soccer, and tennis.
		Cynthia didn't build her first robot until she was a grown-up.
	www.iwaswondering.org /cynthia_scrapbook_childhood.html (220 words)

	Scholastic News: People in the News
		When Cynthia Breazeal saw the first Star Wars movie in fifth grade, her favorite characters were the robots R2-D2 and C-3PO.
		Today, Breazeal is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and director of MIT's Robotics Life Group, where she designs robots that can interact with people and even register emotions.
		Cynthia Breazeal: Women are still very much a minority in robotics and technology.
	teacher.scholastic.com /scholasticnews/indepth/peopleinthenews/talk/index.asp?article=breazeal (961 words)

	NJIT - PublicInfo: Press Release
		Breazeal, who spoke yesterday at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), sees a new range of applications for robots: they can comfort the sick and the elderly, be companions to children and adults, and offer a variety of entertainment in the home.
		Breazeal started her work in robotics as an MIT graduate student, when she created Kismet -- a small robot whose facial expressions and baby-like words seem human.
		Breazeal’s lecture at NJIT was part of a month-long series of events celebrating Women’s History Month and sponsored jointly by the NJIT Technology and Society Forum, the Albert Dorman Honors College and the Lillian Gilbreth Colloquium.
	www.njit.edu /publicinfo/press_releases/release_849.php (583 words)

	The Robot That Loves People - Cynthia Breazeal builds robot called Kismet that expresses emotion and interacts with ...
		Walk by Cynthia Breazeal's workbench in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, and you can't help but notice a hunk of aluminum filled with silicon chips and electric motors, a machine purposely shaped and sized like a human head.
		Breazeal, who created this creature, is not surprised: "Happiness is the achievement of a desired stimulus," she says.
		Breazeal can keep this going, keep Kismet happy by paying constant attention to the robot as if it were an infant, which in a sense it is. She can, for example, pick up a toy stuffed dinosaur and begin playing with Kismet.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1511/is_10_20/ai_55926976 (427 words)

	Cynthia Meyer -- Recommendations and Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cynthia Ore is the name of a 29 year old woman involved in a domestic disturbance with Republican Member of the United States House of Representatives Don Sherwood.
		Cynthia Nixon (born April 9, 1966) is an American actress who is best known for her portrayal of lawyer Miranda Hobbes in the popular HBO sitcom ''Sex and the City'' (1998–2004).
		Cynthia Ann McKinney (born March 17, 1955 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a member of the United States House of Representatives from Georgia from 1993 until 2003 and again in another term which began in 2005, representing the state's 4th Congressional district (http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/ga04_109.gif map).
	www.becomingapediatrician.com /health/38/cynthia-meyer.html (1217 words)

	Austin J Damiani -- A Synthetic Human: Kismet or Impossibility?
		Breazeal is a key figure in the evolution of robotics, whose work portends a future in which humans and robots will coexist as equals.
		Breazeal prefaces her analysis of Kismet’s emotional processes with a brief discussion of the evolutionary perspective on the phenomenon of emotion in living organisms.
		Breazeal summarizes: “emotions establish a desired relation between the organism and the environment that pulls the creature toward certain stimuli and events and pushes it away from others” (125).
	www.tc.umn.edu /~dami0016/fall03/cscl3331-robots.htm (1974 words)

	Cynthia Breazeal – Roboticist at Work
		In 1990, after graduating from UCSB, Cynthia began graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
		Cynthia focused on the part she cared about most because it allowed face to face, personal interaction.
		In 1993 Cynthia worked with other AI Lab students and her advisor, Rodney Brooks, to build and program Cog.
	www.iwaswondering.org /cynthia_scrapbook_working.html (317 words)

	A Feeling Robot? Must Be Kismet
		Livermore native Cynthia Breazeal, a scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Artificial Intelligence Lab, is the mastermind behind a robot she named Kismet, which smiles, pouts, arches an eyebrow curiously or recoils in fear depending on the outside stimulus.
		The difference between Breazeal and most other kids was that, well, she actually had a realistic chance of achieving any and all of those careers.
		Breazeal served as the architect for Brooks' most elaborate robot, Cog, a 6-foot-5 functional robot that acquired intelligence by interacting with the outside world.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/05/CC69735.DTL&type=tech_article (929 words)

	Designing Socially Intelligent Robots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cynthia Breazeal is an assistant professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
		Cynthia’s research pioneers the art and science of human-robot interaction and cooperation, and seeks to develop robots that engage us as helpful partners that will ultimately play a valuable, rewarding, and unprecedented role in the everyday lives of ordinary people.
		Cynthia received Sc.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.nae.edu /nae/naefoe.nsf/PresentationPrintView/JHAY-65GMZU?OpenDocument (169 words)

	Robotic Life - Publications (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, M. Hancher, J. McBean, W.D. Stiehl, and J. Strickon (2003), "Interactive Robot Theatre", Communications of the ACM, 46(7), pp.
		Breazeal (2002), "Regulation and entrainment for human-robot interaction," D. Rus and S. Singh (eds), International Journal of Experimental Robotics, 21(10-11), pp.
		Breazeal, A. Brooks, J. Gray, M. Hancher, C. Kidd, J. McBean, W.D. Stiehl, and J. Strickon (2003), "Interactive Robot Theatre", In Proceedings of IROS 2003.
	robotic.media.mit.edu /publications.html (1377 words)

	Scientific American Frontiers . Robot Pals . A Conversation with Cynthia Breazeal \| PBS
		Cynthia Breazeal directs the Robotic Life group at MIT's Media Lab.
		Throughout her career, Breazeal's been revolutionizing the essence of robot/human interactions.
		Breazeal develops social robots who learn from and respond to the people in their environments.
	www.pbs.org /saf/1510/features/breazeal.htm (420 words)

	MIT team building social robot - MIT News Office
		To make Kismet as lifelike as possible, Dr. Breazeal and colleagues have not only incorporated findings from developmental psychology, but have also invited the comments of cartoon animators.
		Breazeal's colleagues on the work, all graduate students in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), are Paul Fitzpatrick, Paulina Varchavskaia, and Lijin Aryananda.
		Cynthia Breazeal plays with Kismet, the robot that mimics and responds to human emotions.
	web.mit.edu /newsoffice/2001/kismet.html (1128 words)

	IGN: Video Interview: Producer Kathleen Kennedy and Scientist Cynthia Breazeal
		Kismet is the brainchild of MIT scientist, teacher and author Cynthia L. Breazeal, the leader of MIT's Kismet team.
		Breazeal and Kathleen Kennedy, in the presence of Kismet, they discuss the parallels between the real world and futuristic challenges of creating a social robot.
		Breazeal introduces Kismet; who she refers to as a robotic creature, "something with a life-like presence to people" which could "ultimately form a social or emotional connection with people." Kathleen Kennedy also mentions how Marvin Minsky – who founded the laboratory in 1959 with fellow scientist John McCarthy – assisted Stanley Kubrick.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/300/300844p1.html (624 words)

	MIT Media Lab: Cynthia Breazeal
		Cynthia Breazeal directs the Lab's Robotic Life group and holds the LG Career Development chair, having previously been a postdoctoral associate at MIT's Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab.
		Breazeal is particularly interested in developing creature-like technologies that exhibit social commonsense and engage people in familiar human terms.
		Breazeal earned ScD and MS degrees at MIT in electrical engineering and computer science, and a BS in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara.
	www.media.mit.edu /people/bio_cynthiab.html (140 words)

	A Passion to Build a Better Robot, One With Social Skills and a Smile
		Breazeal built Kismet, bottom, a robot designed for face-to-face social interactions with humans.
		— Dr. Cynthia L. Breazeal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is famous for her robots, not just because they they are programmed to perform specific tasks, but because they seem to have emotional as well as physical reactions to the world around them.
		Dr. Breazeal (pronounced bruh-ZILL) wrote about her adventures as a modern-day Mary Shelley in her book "Designing Sociable Robots," released this year by M.I.T. Press.
	www.nytimes.com /2003/06/10/science/10CONV.html?ex=1370577600&en=cc999e69c6612780&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND (1624 words)

	Designing Sociable Robots with CDROM - Cynthia Breazeal - Bradford Book
		Cynthia Breazeal here presents her vision of the sociable robot of the future, a synthetic creature and not merely a sophisticated tool.
		A sociable robot will be able to understand us, to communicate and interact with us, to learn from us and grow with us.
		Breazeal offers a concrete implementation for Kismet, incorporating insights from the scientific study of animals and people, as well as from artistic disciplines such as classical animation.
	www.libreriauniversitaria.it /BUS/0262025108/Designing_Sociable_Robots_with_CDROM.htm (188 words)

	Conferences - Speakers - Pasadena, CA - February 7-8, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cynthia Breazeal directs the Robotic Presence Group at the MIT Media Lab.
		Breazeal has developed numerous autonomous robots, from planetary micro-rovers, to upper-torso humanoid robots, to highly expressive robotic faces.
		Cynthia has worked in the Mobot Lab, developing a distributed control program with many concurrently running processes to control a small hexapod robot named Hannibal.
	www.ttivanguard.com /a_speakerspasadena01.htm (2094 words)

	Bringing Up Robo-Baby - ROBOTICS - CIO Magazine Sep 15,2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Strictly speaking, Kismet is really an it, not a she, but it is Breazeal's baby, figuratively and literally.
		Breazeal expects the eventual practical applications for this technology to be the development of children's toys followed by domestic robots.
		Kismet and Breazeal also engage in "proto-dialogue," the kind of back-and-forth quasi conversation a parent has with a baby without using any real words.
	www.cio.com /archive/091501/tl_robotics.html?printversion=yes (384 words)

	Cynthia Breazeal - Robotic Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cynthia Breazeal is an assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences at the MIT Media Lab.
		She is Director of the Robotic Life Group and holds the LG Group career development chair.
		Cynthia has been building autonomous robots for over a decade ranging from insect-like planetary micro-rovers, to upper-torso humanoids, to expressive anthropomorphic faces, and more.
	www.researchconnect.com /researchers/expert_1003.asp (123 words)

	DBLP: Cynthia Breazeal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Cynthia Breazeal, Guy Hoffman, Andrea Lockerd: Teaching and Working with Robots as a Collaboration.
		Cynthia Breazeal, Lijin Aryananda: Recognition of Affective Communicative Intent in Robot-Directed Speech.
		Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson: Alternative Essences of Intelligence.
	www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/b/Breazeal:Cynthia.html (278 words)

	NJIT - PublicInfo: MIT Robot Designer and Author Speaks at NJIT for Women’s History Month
		Join robot designer, researcher, author and inventor Cynthia Breazeal, PhD, when she introduces her robotic world to students, faculty and staff at New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) on March 20, 2006.
		Breazeal’s first book, Designing Sociable Robots, was published by The MIT Press in 2002.
		Recognition of Breazeal’s creativity as a designer includes exhibits of her work at museums such as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
	www.njit.edu /publicinfo/press_releases/release_841.php (322 words)

	Sociable machines - Videos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		She describes the goals of the project and the motivation behind it.
		Kismet becomes more distressed (shown by an expression of fear) when Cynthia moves the slinky too vigorously, causing Kismet to be over-stimulated.
		Because Cynthia refuses to engage Kismet at a suitable level of intensity and continues to wave the stuffed toy vigorously in front of Kismet's face, Kismet must terminate the interaction so it can restore itself to a state of homeostatic balance.
	www.ai.mit.edu /projects/sociable/videos.html (401 words)

	Cynthia Breazeal - Home
		Cynthia's robot Kismet gathered information through computers and electrical sensors.
		It was programmed to identify cues—like body movements or the sound of a voice—and determine whether someone was praising, scolding, or soothing it.
		See Kismet in action and watch Cynthia describe her masterpiece.
	iwaswondering.com /cynthia_homepage.html (137 words)

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