Rosalind Picard
The MIT scholar grew up without religious influence in a scientific household that valued logic. Scientific skepticism shaped her atheistic outlook until a friend suggested she read the Bible analytically. Picard approached scripture with her engineering mindset but found unexpected depth in its teachings. Her conversion during the 1980s didn’t diminish her scientific work in artificial intelligence. She founded MIT’s Affective Computing Research Group while integrating faith with technology ethics.
