Today we are honoring Dr. Ayanna Howard. Dr. Howard began her collegiate education at Brown University where she received her B.S. in Electrical Engineering, she continued her education receiving her M.S.E.E. from the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles in 1999. Dr. Howard’s research is centered around humanized intelligence. The unique accomplishments of Dr.Howard have been documented in over 12 featured articles – including being named as one of the world’s top young innovators of 2003 by the prestigious MIT Technology Review journal and in TIME magazine’s “Rise of the Machines” article in 2004. From 1993-2005, Dr. Howard was at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, where she led research efforts on various robotic projects utilizing vision, fuzzy logic, and neural network methodologies. After working at NASA, Dr. Howard began teaching at Georgia Tech in 2005. To date, she is the founder of the Human-Automation Systems (HumAnS) Laboratory, a member of the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines at Georgia Tech and serves as the robotics Ph.D. program coordinator. Dr. Ayanna Howard is a very accomplished woman and a wonderful role model for young women in computing and technology.