Education
She holds bachelor"s and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.
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Pattie Maes
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She founded and directed the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory"s Fluid Interfaces Group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. Prior to joining the Media Laboratory, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Maes" areas of expertise are human–computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing.
Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. Maes is married to computer graphics researcher Karl Sims.
In 1997, Maes was listed in People Magazine"s annual 50 Most Beautiful People feature.
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She currently acts as the associate Department Head for the Media, Arts and Sciences Department. She has received several awards: Newsweek magazine named her one of the "100 Americans to watch for" in the year 2000. TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite (the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world). The World Economic Forum honored her with the title Global Leader for Tomorrow. Ars Electronica awarded her the 1995 World Wide Web category prize. And in 2000 she was recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council.
