• Developement of Emotion Sensor Technology

    Professor Rosalind W. Picard, ScD is founder and director of the Affective Computing research group at the MIT Media Lab, co-director of the Things That Think consortium, and leader of the new and growing Autism & Communication Technology Initiative at MIT. In April 2009 she co-founded Affectiva, Inc., where she serves as chairman and chief…

  • Visualization: Changing Perspective

    I give some perspective on “image use and artistic expression.” But such journeys are not limited to the “ideas of a book” or “a painting” in some form of geometric code. Some will remember Salvador Dali picture I posted. I thought it okay, to see beyond with words, or how one might see a painting…

  • Developing Character in Rhetoric and Composition

    Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)—–although not a rhetorician, contributed to the field in his writings. One of the concerns of the age was to find a suitable style for the discussion of scientific topics, which needed above all a clear exposition of facts and arguments, rather than the ornate style favored at the time. Bacon…