Given the question: Information: - The Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Dutch-speaking university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has three campuses: Brussels Humanities, Science and Engineering Campus (in Etterbeek), Brussels Health Campus (in Jette) and Brussels Technology Campus (in Kaai). - Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels which is the capital of Belgium. The Brussels-Capital Region is a part of both the French Community of Belgium and the Flemish Community, but is separate from the region of Flanders (in which it forms an enclave) or Wallonia. The region has a population of 1.2million and a metropolitan area with a population of over 1.8million, the largest in Belgium. - Pattie Maes ( born 1961 ) is a professor in MIT 's program in Media Arts and Sciences . She founded and directed the MIT Media Lab 's Fluid Interfaces Group . Previously , she founded and ran the Software Agents group . She currently acts as the associate Department Head for the Media , Arts and Sciences Department . Prior to joining the Media Lab , Maes was a visiting professor and a research scientist at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. She holds bachelor 's and PhD degrees in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium . Maes ' areas of expertise are human -- computer interaction , intelligent interfaces and ubiquitous computing . 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 : Newsweek magazine named her one of the '' 100 Americans to watch for '' in the year 2000 ; TIME Digital selected her as a member of the Cyber-Elite ( the top 50 technological pioneers of the high - tech world ) ; the World Economic Forum honored her with the title Global Leader for Tomorrow ; Ars Electronica 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 . Maes is married to computer graphics researcher Karl Sims . In 1997 , Maes was listed in People Magazine 's annual 50 Most Beautiful People feature . - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, MIT adopted a European polytechnic university model and stressed laboratory instruction in applied science and engineering. Researchers worked on computers, radar, and inertial guidance during World War II and the Cold War. Post-war defense research contributed to the rapid expansion of the faculty and campus under James Killian. The current campus opened in 1916 and extends over along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. - Etterbeek (French: ; Dutch: ) is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. It neighbours the municipalities of the City of Brussels, Ixelles, Auderghem, Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Woluwe-Saint-Lambert and Schaerbeek. - Jette is one of the nineteen municipalities located in the Brussels-Capital Region of Belgium. - The MIT Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology devoted to projects at the convergence of technology, multimedia, sciences, art and design. Staff and students have backgrounds ranging from electrical engineering and computer science to sociology and music and others. The Media Lab has been widely popularized since the 1990s by business and technology publications such as "Wired" and "Red Herring" for a series of practical inventions in the fields of wireless networks, field sensing, web browsers and the World Wide Web. , it has diversified its research into neurobiology, biologically inspired fabrication, socially engaging robots, emotive computing, bionics, and hyperinstruments. The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) was one of the notable research efforts which grew out of the Media Lab. What entity does 'pattie maes' has the relation 'employer' with?
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massachusetts institute of technology