Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes (* 1961 in Belgium ) is a Belgian computer scientist and professor of media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology .

Life

Maes studied at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium, received his bachelor's degree in 1983 and received his doctorate in computer science with distinction in 1987 with Luc Steels . She then worked as a scientist at the Belgian National Science Foundation and at the same time led a project on autonomous agents in the artificial intelligence laboratory at the University of Brussels. In 1989 she took on a visiting professorship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has been an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab since 1995 . She is married to the computer graphics researcher Karl Sims .

Research and Impact

Maes research areas are human-computer interaction , intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing . In 1990 she founded the Software Agents Group in the Media Laboratory. Another project at the MIT Media Laboratory was the Fluid Interfaces Group, which examined the interaction between computers and users. She has also been involved in a number of business ventures, including starting a web-based service called Firefly in 1995. This service enabled individuals with shared interests to build an online community through collaborative filtering. Microsoft bought this company in 1998 . In 1999 she founded Open Ratings, which offered technologies that could track and identify supplier performance patterns, then use simulations to make predictions and improve decision-making processes. Open Ratings was later bought by Dun & Bradstreet . She is a member of the editorial board and reviewer for numerous specialist journals and conferences.

Awards

one of "100 People for the New Century," Newsweek Magazine
Member of the cyber elite (the 50 technologically leading pioneers of the high-tech world), TIME Digital
Global Leader for Tomorrow, World Economic Forum
1995: Prize for the World Wide Web category, Ars Electronica
2000: Lifetime Achievement Award, Massachusetts Interactive Media Council

literature

Designing Autonomous Agents: Theory and Practice from Biology to Engineering and Back. MIT Press, 1991, ISBN 0-262-63135-0
Artificial Life IV: Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, Rodney Brooks & Pattie Maes, MIT Press, 1994, ISBN 0-262-52190-3

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personal data
SURNAME	Maes, Pattie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Belgian computer scientist and professor at MIT
DATE OF BIRTH	1961
PLACE OF BIRTH	Belgium