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Rosalind W. Picard is director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab.
Darwin dissenter
Recently, The New York Times reported that Dr. Picard signed the Discovery Institute's anti-evolution petition, "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism". This petition has been widely used by its sponsor, the Discovery Institute, and their supporters in a national campaign to discredit evolution and mandate the teaching of intelligent design in public schools, and it has it has been the subject of criticism and parody.
Although some of the signatories of the Dissent from Darwinism petition hold doctorates in science and engineering disciplines, only about one quarter of the signers have biological science backgrounds, and at least one signatory has abandoned the list, saying he felt mislead. By comparison, during the four-day drive A Scientific Support For Darwinism And For Public Schools Not To Teach Intelligent Design As Science gathered 7733 signatures of people who were verified to be scientists. During the four days of the petition, it received 20 times as many signatures at a rate 690,000% higher than the Discovery Institute can claim.
References
External links
- Affective Computing Group Web Page
- Rosalind (Roz) W. Picard Homepage
- Dissent From Darwin Anti-Evolution Petition
- New York Times Article on Intelligent Design Petition (signed by Dr. Rosalind Picard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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- 1962 births
- Living people
- American computer scientists
- Women computer scientists
- Electronics engineers
- Artificial intelligence researchers
- People from Massachusetts
- Georgia Institute of Technology alumni
- Intelligent design advocates
- Signatories of "A Scientific Dissent From Darwinism"