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Every year, the MIT Technology Review magazine publishes their list of top young innovators under 35. I always find the people and work profiled really inspiring, and every once in a while someone that I know is on the list.
But nothing tops this year’s. Andrea and her work on socially guided machine learning made the list. Not only that, but her robot Simon is on the cover of the magazine. This is super cool, very special.
Flipping through the magazine, and looking at the smiling faces of the “innovators under 35″, the thought of these people pulling all nighters and working really hard to meet deadlines doesn’t come to mind easily. But that’s very much how it works. I know it. Lots of hard work and dedication, no shortcuts.
What the Technology Review people don’t know is that Andrea has another little “robot” at home. It’s still “under development”. Just wait until they see him in action, it might just award Andrea another top prize.