American computer scientist, roboticist, and academic

Cynthia Breazeal

Cynthia Breazeal is an American AI and robotics scientist and entrepreneur. She is a pioneer of social robotics and human-robot interaction. She is the former chief scientist and chief experience officer of Jibo, a company she co-founded in 2012 that developed companion robots for the family at home. Currently, she is a professor of media arts and sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she is the director of the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, dean for digital learning at MIT Open Learning, and director of the MIT RAISE Initiative.

Born

1967

November 15

Died

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1960s

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655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I in the Battle of Morgarten.
1532 Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Incan Emperor Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging for a meeting in the city plaza the following day.
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.

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The world in 1967

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april 14 Gnassingbé Eyadéma overthrows Nicolas Grunitzky and installs himself as the new President of Togo, a title he will hold for the next 38 years.
april 21 A few days before the general election in Greece, Colonel George Papadopoulos leads a coup d'état, establishing a military regime that lasts for seven years.
april 21 A tornado outbreak in Illinois, United States, kills over 50 and injures over 1,000. Belvidere sustains over 500 casualties as a violent tornado strikes the high school. Another tornado near Chicago causes another 500 casualties, devastating Oak Lawn.
april 23 Soviet space program: Soyuz 1 (Russian: Союз 1, Union 1), a crewed spaceflight carrying cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir Komarov, is launched into orbit.

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Aneurin Bevan 1897–1960 Welsh-English politician, Secretary of State for Health (born 1897) Cornelia Sorabji 1866–1954 Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer (born 1866) Eleanor of Austria 1498– queen of Portugal and France (died 1558) Francesco Rosi 1922–2015 Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922) Georgia O'Keeffe 1887–1986 American painter (born 1887) J. G. Ballard 1930–2009 English novelist, short story writer, and essayist (born 1930) Jonny Lee Miller 1972– English-American actor José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi 1776– Mexican journalist and author (died 1827) Mwai Kibaki 1931– Kenyan economist and politician, 3rd President of Kenya (died 2022)

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Sung Jae-gi 1967–2013 South Korean philosopher and activist (born 1967) A. R. Rahman 1967– Indian composer, singer-songwriter, music producer, musician, and philanthropist Adam Hughes 1967– American author and illustrator Anderson Cooper 1967– American journalist and author Carl Ouellet 1967– Canadian wrestler and sportscaster Carrie-Anne Moss 1967– Canadian actress Deion Sanders 1967– American football and baseball player and coach Jane Sixsmith 1967– English field hockey player Joely Fisher 1967– American actress and director

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