Creating Intelligent Computing: A Conversation with Rosalind Picard

Picard: No one was looking at the parts of the brain that were responsible for this thought development. The "emotion" parts of the brain were critically involved in perception, decision making, rational thinking. I had this moment of like, "Oh, great -- emotion. Here I am, this woman, trying to be taken seriously in engineering, and I'm going to tell them that emotion is important? Really, this is just not going to work."