OPEN WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & AUTISM RESEARCH: TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR
Stan Sclaroff
OPEN WORKSHOP ON TECHNOLOGY & AUTISM RESEARCH: TOWARDS A COMPUTATIONAL
SCIENCE OF BEHAVIOR
Will include talks, discussion, and poster presentations related to
the development and use of technologies for diagnosing and intervening
in autism and other behavioral disorders.
WHEN
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
WHERE
MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
Building E14 in Room 674
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Dr. Catherine Lord
Catherine Lord, Ph.D. is the Director of the Institute for Brain
Development, a new autism center at New York Presbyterian Hospital, a
collaborative effort among Weill-Cornell Medical College, Columbia
College of Physicians and Surgeons and the New York Center for Autism,
a not-for-profit autism advocacy organization.
Dr. Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade is the U. A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor of
Computer Science and Robotics and the director of Quality of Life
Technology Engineering Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University.
Dr. Jeffrey Cohn
Jeffrey Cohn is Professor of Psychology at the University of
Pittsburgh and Adjunct Faculty at the Robotics Institute, Carnegie
Mellon University. He received his PhD in psychology from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
Dr. Jan van Santen
Jan van Santen obtained a PhD in Mathematical Psychology at the
University of Michigan, worked for 2 decades at Bell Labs Research on
Natural Language Processing, before joining and directing the Center
for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU) in 2000, then located at the
Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).
EXPEDITION PROJECT IN COMPUTATIONAL BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
The Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta is the lead institution
in a $10 million, five year award from the National Science
Foundation's Expeditions in Computing Program. The project title is
Computational Behavioral Science: Modeling, Analysis, and
Visualization of Social and Communicative Behavior: http://www.cbs.gatech.edu/.
The multidisciplinary research team, composed of computer scientists,
engineers, and psychologists are from nine institutions including
major autism research centers in Atlanta, Boston, Pittsburgh, Urbana-
Champaign, and Los Angeles.
Hosted by the MIT Media Lab and Northeastern University and Sponsored
by NSF Expeditions in Computing Project on Computational Behavior
Science