Ruth S Aylett was born on 1951 and is a British author, computer scientist, professor, poet and political activist.
12 Facts About Ruth Aylett
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Ruth Aylett is the leader of Socially Competent Robots, a project of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council that studies whether robots can assist autistic people in learning to recognize facial expressions and other social cues.
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Ruth Aylett has studied the use of "emotionally literate" robots for tutoring schoolchildren, developed interactive role-playing software intended to combat bullying, and performed with a robot poet named Sarah the Poetic Robot as part of the Edinburgh Free Fringe.
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Ruth Aylett earned a degree in mathematical economics at the London School of Economics, and began her career in computing by working in technical support at International Computers Limited for three years, before moving to the University of Sheffield to work in computing and robotics.
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Ruth Aylett became a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University for five years, and then moved to the University of Edinburgh in 1989, as part of the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute there.
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Ruth Aylett moved again to the University of Salford in 1992, first as part of the IT Institute there and later in the Centre for Virtual Environments.
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Ruth Aylett is the coauthor, with Judy Robertson, Lisa Gjedde, Rose Luckin and Paul Brna, of the self-published book Inside Stories: A Narrative Journey, on the use of story-telling in education and the use of technology to assist in storytelling.
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Ruth Aylett is the coauthor of the poetry pamphlet Handfast: Poetry Duets with Beth McDonough.
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Ruth Aylett co-authored Inside DAMMA: the Department of Applied Meta-Magical Anthropology with Morag Burgon-Lyon, Greg Michaelson and Judy Robertson.
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Ruth Aylett is the mother of writer and activist Owen Jones.
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Ruth Aylett met her husband, union organiser Robert Jones, through their membership in the Militant tendency, a Trotskyist group within the Labour Party.
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Ruth Aylett has served as one of the leaders of the Labour Party in Edinburgh Southern.