Dr. Ruzena Bajcsy (GRASP Lab Founder) – MIT Technology Review’s Seven Over 70

August 23rd, 2016

“Seven over 70” – MIT Technology Review

Yet more proof that innovation isn’t only for the young.

This letter appeared in the September/October 2016 issue
by Jason Pontin
August 23, 2016

“…7. Ruzena Bajcsy is a roboticist who is still actively publishing at the age of 83. Born and educated in Czechoslovakia (where the Nazis killed most of her relatives, orphaning her at 11), she was a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, led the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate of the National Science Foundation with its $500 million budget, and is today a professor at UC Berkeley, where she is also director emerita of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. Her current research focuses on AI, computational biology, and biosystems. Last year, she cowrote three papers about using Microsoft Kinect to improve the lives of older adults or people with muscular dystrophy.”

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