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Secret Life of Scientists and Engineers
Tanzeem Choudhury: I Took It As A Challenge!
Season 2013
Episode 22
Tanzeem Choudhury is Associate Professor of Information Science at Cornell University where she leads the People-Aware Computing Lab. She and her team develop cell-phone apps that can track a person's emotional well-being. Tanzeem herself was a digital late bloomer, only touching a computer for the first time in a computer programming class when she was 18 years old.
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