Pattie Maes (born 1961) is a professor in

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's program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directed the

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's Fluid Interfaces Group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. She served for several years as both the head and associate head of the Media Lab's academic program. Prior to joining the Media Lab, Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the

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. She holds bachelor's and PhD degrees in computer science from the

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in Belgium. Maes' areas of expertise are human–computer interaction, intelligent interfaces and

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. Maes is the editor of three books, and is an editorial board member and reviewer for numerous professional journals and conferences. She has received several awards:

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magazine named her one of the "100 people for the new century"; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the ''Cyber-Elite'' (the top 50 technological pioneers of the high-tech world); the

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honored her with the title Global Leader for Tomorrow;

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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. In 1997, Maes was listed in

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's annual

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feature. Maes is married to computer graphics researcher

Karl Sims Karl Sims (born 1962) is a computer graphics artist and researcher, who is best known for using particle systems and artificial life in computer animation. Biography Sims received a B.S. from MIT in 1984, and a M.S. from the MIT Media Lab in 1987. ...

Books

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

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