{"57060":{"#nid":"57060","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Ayanna Howard Named Emerging Scholar by Diverse Magazine","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMost people would marvel at the 1970s television show \u0022The Bionic Woman\u0022 and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine. Not a young Ayanna MacCalla Howard. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMost people would marvel at the 1970s television show \u0022The Bionic Woman\u0022 and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENot a young Ayanna MacCalla Howard. \u0022I said, \u0027I can build The Bionic Woman,\u0027\u0022 she says with a laugh.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBut it formed the foundation for a now stellar career in engineering and robotics for Dr. Howard, an associate professor in the School of ECE at Georgia Tech. \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHoward focuses on the area of humanized intelligence and robotics. According to her Georgia Tech biography, this area of research centers on the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems. She says this doesn\u0027t mean building robots that will become human.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022I\u0027m designing robotic technology\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Most people would marvel at the 1970s television show \u0022The Bionic Woman\u0022 and just hope to emulate the technologically advanced heroine. Not a young Ayanna MacCalla Howard.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Ayanna Howard tapped as an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Magazine"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2009-01-09 01:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:05:41","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2009-01-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"57061":{"id":"57061","type":"image","title":"Ayanna Howard works with a SnoMote robot","body":null,"created":"1449175327","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:42:07","changed":"1475894380","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:39:40","alt":"Ayanna Howard works with a SnoMote robot","file":{"fid":"190535","name":"tbm37936.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbm37936_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tbm37936_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13080,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tbm37936_0.jpg?itok=NPeoZzmq"}}},"media_ids":["57061"],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1567","name":"Ayanna"},{"id":"1568","name":"Howard"},{"id":"1569","name":"humanized intelligence"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=jn7\u0022\u003EContact Jackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}