Helen Greiner Research Paper

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The individual that I have chosen is Ms. Helen Greiner whom is also known as Helen Valerie Davis Grenier, who is also a leading entrepreneur worldwide. Helen Greiner was born in London, England in the year 1967. Since the early age, Helen developed interest to electronics and gadgets where she often gets jealous of her elder brother’s collection of controlled cars and electronics set. In the year 1977, when Helen went to the movies, little she knew, the movie she was about to watch will turn into. The movie she watched was ‘Star Wars’ and was captivated by the three-foot-tall spunky android, R2D2. “He was not just a machine, he had moods, emotions, and dare I say his own agenda. This was exciting to me; he was a creature, an artificial creature” Helen thought to herself after the movie. However not too long after that, Helen found out that R2D2 was actually controlled by a man inside a plastic-cased costume, and she was crushed. From that day on, Helen Greiner vowed to create her own R2D2, which will be a real one based on state of the art technology. Helen then attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which was one of the finest college for science and technology in the world. She perused The Study of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Artificial Intelligence is the computer technology that allows robots to react to situations and gives them some ability to reason. …show more content…

Helen found herself a job in MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory where she became fast friends with Rodney Brooks (MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Head Person) and Colin Angle as they both were also devoted to the science of

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