Why AI needs emotion - Artificial Intelligence 2016

Rana El Kaliouby is cofounder and CEO of Affectiva, the pioneer in emotion-aware technology--the next frontier of artificial intelligence. Rana invented the company's award-winning emotion recognition technology, built on an emotion AI science platform that uses deep learning and the world's largest emotion data repository of nearly 4 million faces analyzed from 75 countries, amounting to more than 40 billion emotion data points. Prior to founding Affectiva, as a research scientist at MIT Media Lab, Rana spearheaded the application of emotion technology in a variety of fields, including mental health and autism research. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New Yorker, Wired, Forbes, Fast Company, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, CNN, CBS, Time magazine, Fortune, and Reddit. A TED speaker, Rana was recognized by Entrepreneur as one of the seven most powerful women to watch In 2014, inducted into the Women in Engineering Hall of Fame, recognized as a 2012 Technology Review top 35 innovators under 35, listed on Ad Age's 40 under 40, and given Smithsonian magazine's 2015 American Ingenuity Award for Technology.