An expert in Argentine robotics, among the 30 most influential women in the region in the world

True to a custom that began in 2013, the famous American magazine Robohub published the list today The 30 women in robotics to meet. Argentina is one of the highlights of this edition Marcela Riccillo.

With this recognition, the robotics and artificial intelligence expert joins a small group that also includes Alice Agogino, CEO of Squishy Robotics, with whom we spoke earlier about the development of robots that promise to save lives.

The award for Riccillo and the 29 new referents of the region is known in the Ada Lovelace International Day, who is one of the first programmers in history. This day is celebrated every year on the second Tuesday of October.

"It's exciting to be on a list of top researchers who are getting global recognition," said Tecno Riccillo in TN, who has over fifteen years of experience in renowned companies, also recognized for her role in robot contests, and who currently teaches courses in data science and machine learning.

In the following speech on TEDx, which dates from 2013, he states that "we need happy robots", you can see it in action.

– How did you hear about the recognition of Robohub?

– It's by email that the organizers sent me from the United States and it was really a nice surprise. For me, being on this list is a recognition of the efforts of many years of training, hard work and dedication.

– Do you think such ads serve to make visible the growing presence of women in a region that seems a priori dominated by men?

– The publication of these types of lists allows people to learn about ongoing projects in various parts of the world and perhaps ideas for new projects could arise. For the rest, I give lectures, lectures, courses on AI and robotics for over ten years, both in the country and abroad. Currently, we are talking more about these issues, but the concepts need to be clarified, the sensationalism and the potential of these tools are being discovered.

Who was Ada Lovelace

Daughter of the mathematician and activist Anne Isabella Noel Byron and the poet Lord Byron, Augusta Ada Byron, better known as Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) is considered one of the pioneers in the field of computer programming.

Critics say her father has called her, since childhood, as "the princess of parallelograms," because of her abundant interest in mathematics.

During his brief but intense existence, he has been associated with renowned figures in the scientific field, including the creator of a mechanical calculator, Charles Babbage, designed to operate without the direct intervention of a human and to perform complex mathematical operations.

Lovelace has thoroughly analyzed this ingenuity (his notes on this work are known) and has developed one of the first algorithms of which there is news.

As the site notes GQBabbage and Lovelace's brains "were thinking of technological advances that the science of the 1830s had not yet made possible." The publication adds that "his intelligence was so advanced that the rest of society confused him with a witch".

In the eighties, the Ada programming language appeared in the United States Department of Defense, a name that honored this pioneer.

Suw Charman-Anderson, who organized the day that reminds Lovelace, said he had decided to create it to fight "the invisibility of women in the world of technology". This day is celebrated since 2009.

"Ada Lovelace is considered a pioneer in the field of programming and for me, she is an inspiration"Riccillo comments and concludes on a good news day:" Artificial intelligence and robotics are my passion; They allow me to learn and meet people from all over the world. It would be great that each person regains his passion, allowing him to grow and go ahead. "