{"67419":{"#nid":"67419","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Thomaz Named a Top Innovator Under 35","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAndrea Thomaz, assistant professor in Interactive Computing, has been named one of 2009\u2019s Top Innovators Under 35 by MIT Technology Review. Thomaz\u2019s research focuses on social interactions between robots and humans; her robots give visual cues\u2014such as gestures and facial expressions\u2014to indicate whether they understand what a person is telling them. Thomaz also develops machine learning methods to help robots more quickly learn physical tasks, particularly from teachers who are not necessarily programmers. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27154","created_gmt":"2011-06-17 11:34:55","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:24:41","author":"Louise Russo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"DDR (Disarmament","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/TR35\/Profile.aspx?Cand=T\u0026TRID=770","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}