Dr. M. Birna van Riemsdijk is associate professor Intimate Computing (https://intimate-computing.net/) at University of Twente. Her research mission is to develop design methods and computational representation and reasoning techniques for creating intimate technologies that take into account our human vulnerability in supporting us in our daily lives: intimate computing is computing with vulnerability. For her research on software that takes into account personal norms and values she was awarded a Vidi personal grant and the Dutch Prize for Research in ICT 2014. She was elected member (2012-2018) of the board of the International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems and she coordinates the Special Interest Group on Ethics in the Hybrid Intelligence NWO gravitation programme.
Birna van Riemsdijk
Associate Professor,
University of Twente
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