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The first digital computers are theorized and created
During this period, Alan Turing made the first big advances in theorizing a modern digital computer. Once WWII started, Turing continued to develop his ideas by creating a machine to decode encrypted German messages. His work during and after the war were major advancements both in computer science and the theory of artificial intelligence Link text -
Rosalind Picard Publishes Affective Computing
Rosalind Picard's book introduced the world to the idea of affective computing and sparked widespread interest in using computers to detect emotions -
El Kaliouby and Picard begin developing software and devices to recognize emotion
El Kaliouby joins Picard's Media Lab and brings her MindReader software which allows them to create devices to detect emotion. Mind Reader uses optics and Artificial Intelligence to learn how to detect emotions. These new technologies are used to help children with Autism read other people's emotions and express themselves. -
Pepper is created
In Japan, Pepper is created as the first social companion robot available to the public. It has the ability to read and express emotions as well as carry on a decent conversation. -
Jibo is created
Cynthia Breazeal leads the largest crowd funded campaign for a robot and raises millions of dollars to create a personal home assistant robot named Jibo. Jibo is a major step forward in robots communicating and carrying conversation -
New Innovation: Reading Dog's emotions
Dogs primarily communicate on a instinctual emotional level. I think there will someday be a device that allows us to read our dogs emotional state and figure out its needs. It could also be used in training or dog rehab