Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50

Seth Teller, a professor of computer science and engineering at MIT who was well known for his efforts to advance human-robot interactions, died yesterday. He was 50, and he had been a member of the MIT faculty since 1994. President L. Rafael Reif announced the news in an email to the MIT community. "I knew Seth as a person of great human warmth and intellectual intensity," Reif wrote in his letter. "He was a brilliant engineer and a gifted advisor with a passion for new challenges. His loss is difficult to grasp."