Drones: A Tipping Point of Technology
Missy Cummings
Monday, 01 Apr 2013 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Missy Cummings landed F/A-18 fighter jets on aircraft carriers when she was a Navy pilot. Now she studies unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, as a professor at MIT and director of their Humans and Automation Lab. Cummings was featured in NOVA's "Rise of the Drones." She has a BS in mathematics from the United States Naval Academy, an MS in space systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988 to 1999, she was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots. She is currently an associate professor in the Aeronautics & Astronautics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Part of the World Affairs Series and the Women in STEM SeriesMissy Cummings's research interests include human interaction with autonomous vehicle systems, modeling human interaction with complex systems, decision support design for time-pressured, uncertain systems, and the ethical and social impact of technology.
NOVA, "Rise of the Drones": www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/rise-of-the-drones
Jon Stewart's interview with Missy Cummings on The Daily Show: www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-23-2013
Cosponsored By:
- College of Engineering
- World Affairs
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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