[Read] Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity by Bringing

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Girl Decoded: A Scientist's Quest to Reclaim Our Humanity
by Bringing Emotional Intelligence to Technology
Sinopsis :
In a captivating memoir, an Egyptian American visionary and
scientist provides an intimate view of her personal
transformation as she follows her calling&#8212tohumanize
our technology and how we connect with one
another.LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS
BOOK AWARD &#8226nbsp&#8220Avivid coming-of-age
story and a call to each of us to be more mindful and
compassionate when we interact online.&#8221#8212Arianna
HuffingtonNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE
YEAR BY PARADE Rana el Kaliouby is a rarity in both the
tech world and her native Middle East: a Muslim woman in

charge in a field that is still overwhelmingly white and male.
Growing up in Egypt and Kuwait, el Kaliouby was raised by a
strict father who valued tradition&#8212ye also had high
expectations for his daughters&#8212an a mother who was
one of the first female computer programmers in the Middle
East. Even before el Kaliouby broke ground as a scientist, she
broke the rules of what it meant to be an obedient daughter
and, later, an obedient wife to pursue her own daring dream.
After earning her PhD at Cambridge, el Kaliouby, now the
divorced mother of two, moved to America to pursue her
mission to humanize technology before it dehumanizes us.
The majority of our communication is conveyed through
nonverbal cues: facial expressions, tone of voice, body
language. But that communication is lost when we interact with
others through our smartphones and devices. The result is an
emotion-blind digital universe that impairs the very intelligence
and capabilities&#8212inluding empathy&#8212tht distinguish
human beings from our machines. To combat our fundamental
loss of emotional intelligence online, she cofounded Affectiva,
the pioneer in the new field of Emotion AI, allowing our
technology to understand humans the way we understand one
another. Girl Decoded chronicles el Kaliouby&#8217journey
from being a &#8220nie Egyptian girl&#8221to becoming a
woman, carving her own path as she revolutionizes
technology. But decoding herself&#8212lerning to express and
act on her own emotions&#8212wold prove to be the biggest
challenge of all.