Edited sentence: " Picard lives in Newton, Massachusetts with her husband and three energetic sons.Her award-winning book, Affective Computing, (MIT Press, 1997) lays the groundwork for giving machines the skills of emotional intelligence.Her group's achievements have been featured in national and international forums for the general public, such as The New York Times, The London Independent, Scientific American Frontiers, NPR's Tech Nation and The Connection, ABC's Nightline and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings, Time, Vogue, Voice of America Radio, New Scientist, and BBC's "The Works" and "The Big Byte.Picard has served on dozens of national and international science and engineering program committees, editorial boards, and review panels, and is presently serving on the Editorial Board of User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research, as well as on the Advisory Committee for the National Science Foundation's division of Computers in Science and Engineering (CISE) and the Advisory Board for the Georgia Tech College of Computing.Picard has worked as a consultant for companies such as Apple, AT&T, BT, HP, i.Picard is the author of over a hundred peer-reviewed scientific articles in multidimensional signal modeling, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, and human-computer interaction, and is known internationally for pioneering research in affective computing and, prior to that, for pioneering research in content-based image and video retrieval.Robot, and Motorola.She and her students have designed and developed a variety of new sensors, algorithms, and systems for sensing, recognizing, and responding respectfully to human affective information, with applications in human and machine learning, health, and human-computer interaction.She has been the keynote presenter or invited plenary speaker at over fifty science or technology events, and has delivered distinguished lectures and colloquia at dozens of universities and research labs internationally.She is recipient (with Tom Minka) of a best paper prize for work on machine learning with multiple models (1998) and is recipient (with Barry Kort and Rob Reilly) of a "best theory paper" prize for their work on affect in human learning (2001)